Learning Skills Counselor
UCI Series Concepts -- UCI SIZE-NEUTRAL SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDELINES
Class Specifications - A.35
Principal Learning Skills Counselor (4414) SIZE-NEUTRAL
Senior Learning Skills Counselor (4415) SIZE-NEUTRAL
Learning Skills Counselor (4416) SIZE-NEUTRAL
Assistant Learning Skills Counselor (4417)
August, 1976 -- SIZE-NEUTRAL MARCH 1995
SERIES CONCEPT
Learning Skills Counselors offer learning skills assistance to
students to enable them to become independent, self-confident,
and efficient learners; and perform other related duties as
required. Incumbents in this series have the responsibility for
aiding students in the development and maintenance of such varied
learning skills as reading, writing, study and test-taking
techniques. Incumbents in these positions should possess a broad
knowledge of what constitutes competent and creative skill usage
at various academic levels and must be proficient at guiding
students of diverse educational backgrounds to levels of skill
development consistent with university-level standards of
satisfactory performance. Incumbents typically, interview
individual students, diagnose their respective learning problems,
devise methods to solve those problems and aid students during
the process of solution; plan and conduct learning skills group
workshops; develop, test, and evaluate new materials, approaches
and programs; identify research problems and/or develop research
proposals of a programmatic, evaluative or institutional nature;
maintain liaison with other campus units and academic departments;
develop, plan and/or conduct appropriate outreach activities; and
may participate in the selection and training of learning skills
assistants. Positions in this series are distinguished from
positions in the counseling services series in that they do not
normally offer vocational and psychological consultation. They are
distinguished from positions in the advising services series in
that the primary responsibility of learning skills counselors is
to assist students in the development and maintenance of a variety
of learning skills.
The Learning Skills Counselor series consists of four levels with the
distinction between levels based on the scope and complexity of
learning skills functions.
CLASS CONCEPTS
Principal Learning Skills Counselor
Under general direction incumbents are assigned responsibility for
developing and directing programs and activities in the area of
student learning skills assistance that are broad in scope and
impact. Incumbents typically establish administrative and professional
policies, procedures and standards for a learning skills assistance
unit; coordinate in-service professional staff training programs; and
are assigned responsibility for the development and administration of
the department's annual budget. Incumbents may develop and evaluate
new materials, approaches, and programs; may identify research problems
and develop research proposals; and may establish and maintain
appropriate liaison with other departments and outreach activities.
INCUMBENTS MUST SUPERVISE A MINIMUM OF 2 FTE AND MEET ALL OTHER
CRITERIA FOR FLSA EXECUTIVE EXEMPTION.
Senior Learning Skills Counselor
Under direction incumbents assist in the development and direction of
programs and activities in the area of student learning skills assistance
that are broad in scope and impact. Incumbents may act as principal
assistants to higher level learning skills counselors typically with
limited authority to develop and direct a complex program, and in
addition may provide individual and/or group assistance to undergraduate
and graduate students with difficult learning problems. Incumbents
typically assist in the development of new materials and programs; design
and conduct appropriate liaison and outreach activities; may be assigned
continuing responsibility for coordinating programs; and may select,
train and oversee lower level personnel.
Learning Skills Counselor
Under general supervision incumbents perform difficult professional work
in providing individual and/or group assistance to undergraduate and
graduate students with learning problems. Incumbents typically conduct
appropriate liaison and outreach activities; may assist in the development
of new materials and programs and may assist in the training of lower
level personnel. Incumbents may in addition perform the range of duties
outlined in the Series Concept.
Assistant Learning Skills Counselor
Under supervision incumbents provide individual and/or group assistance
to undergraduate students within limited areas of learning problems.
Incumbents perform the majority of duties described in the Series Concept
typically within established procedural guidelines. This is the entry
level in the professional series, however, positions may be assigned to
this level on a continuing basis.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Principal Learning Skills Counselor
Graduation from college with major work in a related field; and
six years of related experience in a college-level student support
service preferably in a learning skills service; or an equivalent
combination of education and experience; and knowledges and abilities
essential to the successful performance of the duties assigned to the
position.
Senior Learning Skills Counselor
Graduation from college with major work in a related field; and four
years of related experience in a college-level student support service
preferably in a learning skills service; or an equivalent combination
of education and experience; and knowledges and abilities essential to
the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
Learning Skills Counselor
Graduation from college with major work in a related field; and two
years of related experience in a college-level student support service
preferably in a learning skills service; or an equivalent combination
of education and experience and knowledges and abilities essential to
the successful performance of the duties assigned to the position.
Assistant Learning Skills Counselor
Graduation from college with major work in a related field; or an
equivalent combination of education and experience; and knowledges
and abilities essential to the successful performance of the duties
assigned to the position.
Note: A Master's degree in a related field may be substituted for
one year of the required experience.