Assistant Athletic Director—Counseling & Mental Performance

Rice University; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rice University invites applications for an Assistant Athletic Director for Counseling and Sports Psychology. The role oversees counseling and sport psychology services, staff development, and collaboration with Rice Counseling Center to support student-athlete well-being and performance.

The position is on-site within the Athletics Department, reporting to the Athletics Health Care Administrator and coordinating with campus partners.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Counseling, or Social Work
• 3+ years of experience in Division I or professional sports
• Expertise in stress management, substance abuse and alcohol education, eating disorders, crisis management, depression, anxiety, grief, identity crisis, and other psychological issues related to injury and rehabilitation in competitive athletes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain clinical and sport-performance caseload comprised of student-athletes for both individual and group service provision in collaboration with Rice Counseling Center and community providers.
• Serve as lead point of contact for emergency mental health crises, coordinate referrals for higher level of care, and coordinate the multi-disciplinary Consultation and Assessment Team (CAT) to support campus and sport reintegration efforts when appropriate.
• Provide daytime, evening, and weekend Emergency Action Plan for crisis intervention and emergency services in situations involving individual student-athletes or teams with support from the Rice Counseling Center as needed.
• Engage in counseling-related activities including, but not limited to, maintaining counseling records, administering and interpreting annual psychological tests/inventories, referrals, and managing various organizational and administrative aspects of counseling cases.
• Create a written plan to mental health promotion efforts that is responsive to risk and protective factors at multiple levels, including individual team, athletic department, campus and societal factors. Diversity, equity and inclusion are important influencing factors that should be addressed in this plan.
• Coordinate service delivery for special cases to include substance use, disordered eating, and severe-persistent mental illness education and treatment.
• Assist the academic support staff, as requested, with LD/ADHD assessments and serve as lead for coordinating medication management referrals when appropriate.
• Effectively use assessment and evaluation results in determining the department's accomplishment of its missions/goals and re-allocation of resources. Facilitate the prioritization of decisions and resources to implement those decisions that are informed by program evaluations.
• Understand and comply with Texas state statutes governing the ethical provision of psychological care, as well as those rules governing the NCAA and AAC.
• Participate in Rice Counseling Center's weekly case management and staff meetings.
• Coordinate with the creative services team to create content for the department's social and digital media platforms related to mental health, wellness, and sport-performance.
• Work closely with the AAC clinical mental health partners, conference headquarters representatives, and cross-conference peer institutional partners to provide evidence-based, NCAA Mental Health Best Practices as a member of the larger clinical and sport-performance community.

Skills

Crisis management

Stress management

Mental health education

Emergency response coordination

Education

Master's degree in Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Counseling, or Social Work

Licensed as a psychologist or license-eligible in Texas

PhD or PsyD in Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, or Sport Psychology

Job description

Rice University invites applications for an Assistant Athletic Director for Counseling and Sports Psychology. The role oversees counseling and sport psychology services, staff development, and collaboration with Rice Counseling Center to support student-athlete well-being and performance.

The position is on-site within the Athletics Department, reporting to the Athletics Health Care Administrator and coordinating with campus partners.