Counselor I (Transition Caseload) - Spartanburg Area Office
Spartanburg County, SCFull-time$46–53K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Counselor I supports eligible South Carolinians with disabilities in achieving and maintaining competitive employment on a transition caseload. The role coordinates vocational counseling, assessments, career exploration, job preparation, and placement, and develops individualized plans for employment. It also includes weekly caseload management and counseling students and youth toward vocational goals based on their interests, abilities, and needs.
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Full job description
Join South Carolina state government where you can have a meaningful career, incomparable benefits, and a positive work-life balance!
In this position you will perform the following job duties:
- Prepare & assist eligible South Carolinians with disabilities to achieve and maintain competitive employment by coordinating services to include vocational counseling, guidance, and direct job placement. (Transition Caseload)
- Conduct and coordinate communication assessments, vocational assessments, career exploration, and job preparation instruction and design individualized plan for employment (IPE).
- Complete caseload management activities weekly
- Perform other related duties as required or assigned.
If invited to interview, please obtain your Official 10 year driving record from the Department of Motor Vehicles to bring with you. Official transcripts will be required to verify college degree.
- Master's degree in Vocational Rehabilitation, Counseling, Psychology or other degree qualifying under CSPD guidelines.
- Ability to counsel and advise students and youth with various physical mental disabilities toward a vocational goal through Individualized Plans for Employment (IPE) and consideration of the consumers' interest, abilities and needs.
- Should be able to communicate effectively to establish and maintain effective working relationships with consumers, vendors, employers, the medical community, and coworkers.
- Must be able to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
The South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited, to lactation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
The South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department offers an exceptional benefits package for FTE positions that includes:
- Health, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Children
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedules
- 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
- 15 days sick leave per year
- 13 paid holidays
- State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Programs
How this job compares
Set against the 1,925 open Counselor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$46–53K/yr
- South Carolina median$51–60K/yr38 salary ranges
- US median$62–80K/yr672 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $50K, is 10% below the South Carolina median midpoint ($55K) — in the lowest quarter of Counselor salary ranges in South Carolina.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 50 open Counselor jobs in South Carolina and 1,925 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in South Carolina
- State of South Carolina (this employer)34 open
- Amergis4 open
- Curana Health3 open
- Experience
- Counselor postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (746 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 879 of the 1,925 open Counselor jobs (46%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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