Counselor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Clovis Community College

State Center Community College District; Clovis (NM); Sur place; USD 5 922 000 - 9 463 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Clovis Community College seeks a Counselor for its part-time faculty pool. The position supports equity-minded student success through counseling, educational planning, and collaboration with campus partners.

Duties include advising, in-class instruction, and participation in retention initiatives to assist a diverse student population. The role requires a Master’s in counseling or related field (or equivalent) and may involve evening hours and varied start dates.

Qualifications

• Master’s in counseling or related field required.
• Equivalency may be accepted.
• Experience in higher education counseling preferred.

Responsabilités

• Counsel students with career and educational planning, orientation, and transfer guidance.
• Instruct counseling classes for job preparation, career planning, study skills, transfer prep, or group dynamics.
• Deliver multimedia presentations and provide advising, including large-group sessions.
• Implement retention strategies and integrate technology into counseling functions.
• Collaborate with students, faculty and staff; participate in committees and program planning.

Connaissances

Counseling

Career planning

Equity-minded approach

Interpersonal skills

Formation

Master’s in counseling or related field

Equivalency may be accepted

Description du poste

Counselor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Clovis Community College

This is a part-time position. Open until filled. Start dates may vary.

Campus Location: Clovis Community College

Essential Functions of Position

At Clovis Community College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful faculty member will be an equity-minded individual committed to student success by collaborating with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps. An equity-minded individual is a person who:

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Reflects on institutional and teaching practices and aims to create a culturally responsive teaching environment; and
• Strategically builds buy-in and participation among colleagues for equity-related initiatives.

Clovis Community College seeks faculty members who value mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment, guided by a commitment to helping all students achieve their educational goals. Divisions strongly encourage collaboration across disciplines to create inclusive, integrated, and interdisciplinary learning experiences. Clovis Community College faculty are expected to be knowledgeable about, and willing to use, different learning and teaching methods appropriate to the students they serve. Faculty members should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Clovis Community College.

The ideal candidate will share Clovis Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. As of Spring 2021, we currently enroll over 8,100 students in which 45% identify as Latinx, 12% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% as Black/African American, 33% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 6% as multiracial. Clovis Community College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community. The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Reporting to the Dean of Student Services at Clovis Community College, the counselor assignment will include responsibility for the Early Alert program and working with probation and dismissal students. Duties include:

• Counseling with broad range of community college counseling services, including career and educational planning, orientation, transfer, veteran services, student recruitment, and personal counseling;
• Instruction in counseling classes for job preparation, career planning, study skills, transfer preparation, or group dynamics;
• Assignment also includes multimedia classroom presentations and advising, large group presentations, implementing retention strategies, integrating technology into counseling functions, working with students and faculty members and other counselors;
• Participate in the implementation of student success strategies;
• Involvement in committee work & strategic planning efforts;
• Implementation of student learning outcomes;
• Perform other established duties and responsibilities of counselors;
• Assume such other duties as may be assigned by the Dean of Student Services;
• Duties may include extended day, evening and Saturday hours and assignments.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling, or
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

(NOTE: A bachelor’s degree in one of the listed degrees and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist ( MFT ) is an alternative qualification for this discipline.)

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility;
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes;
• Willingness to examine and remediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students;
• Experience working with a diverse student population;
• Related work and professional experience;
• Experience working with students of various cultural, gender, age, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds, including disabled students;
• Experience working with Early Alert programs;
• Experience in conducting workshops and teaching courses in career and personal development;
• Knowledge of California Community Colleges matriculation processes;
• Knowledge and experience interpreting and utilizing articulation agreements and transfer requirements for community college students;
• Experience in using and interpreting a variety of career assessment tools;
• Experience working with high school partners;
• Experience working with instructional faculty and staff to monitor dual enrollment courses.

Salary and Benefits

Starting rates are $50.58 - $68.69 for lecture and $42.99 - $58.43 for lab. Sick leave accrual is based on assignment hours.

Selection Procedure

The selection and hiring process will be explained by the hiring department if the candidate is extended an opportunity to interview.

Additional Information about the Position

State Center Community College District (SCCCD) provides students with a rich and dynamic learning experience that embraces differences - emphasizing collaboration and engaging students in and out of the classroom, encouraging them to realize their goals, and to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders. When you join our team at SCCCD , you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners.

CLOVIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Located in the heart of California, Clovis Community College is one of the newest and fastest growing community colleges in California. Clovis Community College offers quality education in a friendly, innovative, and contemporary setting to students from the Fresno, Clovis, and foothill communities. Accredited in 2015, the College’s culture is based on a commitment to and a vision for creating and maintaining a collaborative teaching and learning environment that fosters equitable student achievement and academic excellence.

The College’s instructional and student services units are united by the common goal of providing exemplary academic programs and support services tailored to meet the needs of its diverse student population and its communities. The College mission and vision reflects this ambitious and inspiring goal.

OUR MISSION

Creating Opportunities - One Student at a Time

• We embrace diversity and serve all students of the community;
• We believe education is based on integrity, generosity, and accountability;
• We foster critical, creative, and engaged thinking;
• We support student success by preparing students for their futures and for the community’s future through career/technical certificates, degrees, and transfer programs;
• We cultivate community partnerships to enhance student learning and success;
• We engage in reflective, data-drive cycles of research and innovation focused on learning and student outcomes.