POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Division of Academic and Student Affairs (DASA) is where students discover connections and community. It is where students live, where they gather, where they improve themselves, each other, and their university. DASA is where students seek guidance and support, both in and outside of the classroom. The division serves all students at NC State through three integrated components: academic affairs, student affairs, and University College.
NC State wants employees to achieve their highest potential at work, learn more about our employee value proposition here (
You Belong Here). The Division of Academic and Student Affairs is the place to work for values-driven faculty and staff who are passionate about promoting the success of the whole student.
The Counseling Center assists NC State students experiencing personal, academic or vocational problems. The goal of the Counseling Center is to provide students with professional counseling services and outreach to help them cope with issues that may impede successful academic performance. The Counseling Center also offers crisis intervention and psychological/psychiatric assessment as well as consultation with others who have concerns about the mental/emotional state of NC State students. Our services are primarily short-term in nature and we make referrals to other helping professionals and community agencies as appropriate.
Members of the counseling center commit to:
- A nurturing, supportive Community
- A commitment to cultural humility
- Holding ourselves and each other accountable
- Embracing compassion in all situations
- Using evidenced-based quality of care
The Embedded Counselor emphasis in Interpersonal Violence Concerns will provide professional individual and group counseling services and outreach to NC State students as well as consultation to University administrators, staff and others who have concerns about the mental/emotional status of NC State students. This position will have an emphasis on interpersonal violence concerns.
Duties and Responsibilities
One full-time, 12 month position with responsibility to assist in all areas of Counseling Center functioning including:
- Individual and group counseling of NC State students/clients (personal, academic, and vocational assessment and counseling); psychological assessment; developmental and crisis counseling; couples counseling; evaluation of students for withdrawal from the University
- Development and participation in Outreach programming
- Consultation with faculty staff, parents, and others
- Providing evaluations and recommendations regarding students with academic and conduct problems
- Some participation in after hours “on call” and possible evening office hours
- General administrative responsibilities
- Support of the center’s interpersonal violence program
Responsibilities on Interpersonal Violence Concerns
- Support of the center’s efforts on interpersonal violence concerns as a co-chair of the Interpersonal Violence Treatment Team
- Provide individual and group counseling to students who experienced interpersonal violence as survivors and/or respondents
- Assist the Coordinator to develop and maintain updated information and resources on interpersonal violence concerns for the center and campus partners
- Develop and participate in Outreach programs for student on interpersonal violence concerns.
- Assist the Coordinator to provide consultation and training opportunities on interpersonal violence concerns to center staff for best practice
- Provide consultation on interpersonal violence concerns to faculty/staff, parents, and others
- Assist the Coordinator to develop and maintain collaboration with on and off-campus partners on interpersonal violence concerns
- Assist the Coordinator to provide consultation to campus partners on interpersonal violence concerns and campus policies/training.
- Help maintain updated resource information and relationships with off-campus referral resources (Interact, Women’s Center of Wake County, etc.).
ABOUT NC STATE UNIVERSITY COUNSELING CENTER
As a land-grant institution, NC State itself was born as an idea: that higher education should bring economic, societal and intellectual prosperity to the masses. From our origins teaching the agricultural and mechanical arts, we’ve grown to become a pre-eminent research enterprise that advances knowledge in science, technology, engineering, math, design, the humanities and social sciences, textiles and veterinary medicine.
Our students, faculty and staff take problems in hand and work with industry, government and nonprofit partners to solve them. Our 34,000-plus high-performing students apply what they learn in the real world, through research, internships, co-ops and world-changing service. That experiential education ensures they leave here with career-ready skills. And those skills come at a reasonable cost: NC State consistently rates as one of the best values in higher education.
https://www.ncsu.edu/about/
Region Description:
Raleigh, NC is one of the fastest-rising cities in America. Rated the best city for business and careers by Forbes magazine, Raleigh is a top spot for young professionals and families, with a downtown that offers vibrant food and music scenes. The area’s foremost companies — including IBM, Cisco Systems, SAS Institute and Lenovo — are some of the country’s top employers. See http://www.ncsu.edu/human_resources/job_applicants/reasons/community/ for more information.
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