Counselor

West Hills Community College District - Lemoore College, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Lemoore College, CA

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

Lemoore College (LC) is offering a full-time, tenure track position in Counseling. The successful candidate must be dedicated to serving students of diverse backgrounds, skills, and abilities. Lemoore College is seeking a candidate to provide engagement and discipline expertise that will contribute to program innovation and dynamic counseling approaches focused on student success. Under the direction of the assigned administrator, counselors assist with the leadership and direction of assigned counseling, guidance, student support, and/or student success functions within the scope of the student services philosophy of West Hills Community College District. The successful candidate will exhibit a passion for serving and educating a diverse student population through culturally responsive counseling and student support strategies. The successful candidate will demonstrate the use of effective practices for engaging students with diverse needs, backgrounds, and academic goals. The successful candidate will be responsible for incorporating the use of technology into the delivery of counseling and student support services. Service delivery will include the development of non-traditional approaches and strategies to support students enrolled in distance learning/online, hybrid, video conference (two-way interactive courses) dual enrollment, etc. courses.

Responsibilities

• Provide academic/personal/career/and financial aid counseling and advising services for students.
• Provide crisis counseling.
• Plan, develop, coordinate, implement, and provide matriculation services.
• Develop and coordinate college plans that facilitate and support student success and completion.
• Perform and facilitate student services operational processes and data entry functions.
• Develop and assess innovative and diverse approaches to counseling, student support, and learning that meet the social, developmental, and academic needs of a culturally diverse student population and improve student learning, personal well-being retention and success.
• Implement contemporary matriculation, counseling, student support, and teaching methods that enhance learning and facilitate student success and completion utilizing technology.
• Work within and across disciplines to develop and implement a guided pathways model to promote student success and completion.
• Work with other faculty to design, implement, and assess service and learning outcomes to improve the quality of educational delivery and ensure student success.
• Champion collaborative practices in instruction that lead to an active, student centered environment and close equity gaps.
• Participate in faculty responsibilities such as: program development; course and curriculum development, review, articulation, and evaluation; assist in budget preparation; program review; committees; research; accreditation; and special projects as needed.
• Maintain files, records, etc. Meet reporting and compliance deadlines.
• Build strategic alliances and campus networks to enhance student life; and participate in campus-wide activities on a regular basis, including involvement in extracurricular activities as assigned.
• Evaluate in-state, out-of-state, and foreign transcripts.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with social service, mental health, and health care providers.
• Assist in the growth and success of a diverse population of students through careful preparation of course materials, effective teaching methodologies, informed critical feedback on assignments and discussions.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with faculty, feeder high schools and community resource agencies.
• Provide on-going training to counselors, advisors, faculty, and staff.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 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.
• Evidence of sensitivity and responsiveness to as well as an understanding of the racial, ethnic, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, academic and cultural diversity within the community college student population.

Nice-to-haves

• Bilingual preferred (but not required).
• Demonstrated understanding of Student Equity and Achievement (SEA), Guided Pathways, and other student success initiatives.
• Knowledge of, and familiarity with, curriculum offerings, enrollment trends; requirements for Associate degrees and Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADT); general transfer requirements and processes; and general education patterns in secondary and postsecondary education.