About The Role

Position Summary: Serves as Counselor for the Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County with focus on both Binkley House Emergency Youth Shelter and adolescent programming for community groups. Responsible for providing community-based and short-term intervention counseling for youth and their families, and providing training and group facilitation for youth, parents, volunteers, and community organizations.

Must participate in an on-call rotation with other clinical staff and must be available to respond to phone calls to provide clinical support to youth and shelter staff. At times, on-call support may need to be provided in person at the facility.

Qualifications: Master’s Degree in counseling, social work, or related field, working towards licensure, with previous experience in marriage and family therapy or related counseling discipline.

Salary: 2026 Starting Salary $ 63,461 (no Monroe County Government work experience). Based on full time 40- hour work week. (PAT C job classification). Monroe County operates with complete pay transparency. Employees receive pay increases at 3, 8, 14, 20, and 25 years of employment, and cost-of-living adjustments are evaluated annually.

Monroe County Government benefits

Pension program (14.2% of salary total invested on your behalf w/ 10-year vestment period at no cost to the employee, with potential to voluntarily add up to 10% of post-tax total to fund)
Free primary healthcare for all health insurance participants via employer-provided health clinic
Health / dental / vision insurance w/ 80% employer contribution
Government holidays or floating holiday package for those in 24/7 facilities
Exempt positions earn Flex benefit time for hours worked over their 2-week minimum
Retirement counselor resources
6 weeks paid parental leave after 1-year of full-time employment
Perks & discounts program with local / national / international opportunities
EAP program for employees and their families