POSITION DESCRIPTION
Mission, Values & Objectives
We promote the success of the whole student. In collaboration with our colleagues across campus, we prepare students to succeed academically, professionally and personally, to embrace a commitment to lifelong learning, and to become informed, engaged, and productive citizens.
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. With a lens of social justice that prioritizes anti-racism and anti-oppression, 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 Assistant Director is required to perform administrative duties, provide direct service to students, consult with university faculty/staff, and participate in supervision and training. This person will assist in developing, revising, and maintaining policies and procedures to ensure adherence to best clinical practices, and legal and ethical codes. This person will be responsible for coordination of multidisciplinary teams/committees and will directly supervise a number of clinical staff (as assigned). Assistant directors will embrace the center’s values and serve as a role model to exemplify these values.
Assistant Directors will carry a reduced clinical load that may include walk-in/crisis assessment, after-hours on-call, individual, couples, and group psychotherapy, clinical consultation, outreach programming, and clinical supervision. There is an expectation that Assistant and Associate Directors assist in hiring, training, supervising and consulting with all clinical staff, including trainees, as needed.
This staff member serves on the Administrative Team, along with the Director, Associate Director, and other Assistant Directors. The Assistant Directors will assume supervision of Counseling Center operations in the absence of the Director and Associate Director. Members of the Administrative Team will be expected to submit reports and/or data to the Director as requested and will serve on committees within and outside of the Center as required. Members of the Administrative Team are expected to support the Center’s mission and commitment to diversity.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Assistant Director is required to perform administrative duties, provide direct service to students, consult with university faculty/staff, and participate in supervision and training. This person will assist in developing, revising, and maintaining policies and procedures to ensure adherence to best clinical practices, and legal and ethical codes. This person will directly supervise a number of clinical staff (as assigned). Assistant directors will embrace the center’s values and serve as a role model to exemplify these values.
Assistant Directors will carry a reduced clinical load that may include walk-in/crisis assessment, after-hours on-call, individual, couples, and group psychotherapy, clinical consultation, outreach programming, and clinical supervision. There is an expectation that Assistant and Associate Directors assist in hiring, training, supervising and consulting with all clinical staff, including trainees, as needed.
This staff member serves on the Administrative Team, along with the Director, Associate Director, and other Assistant Directors. The Assistant Directors will assume supervision of Counseling Center operations in the absence of the Director and Associate Director. Members of the Administrative Team will be expected to submit reports and/or data to the Director as requested and will serve on committees within and outside of the Center as required. Members of the Administrative Team are expected to support the Center’s mission.
Duties and Responsibilities:
One full-time, 12 month position with responsibility to assist in all areas of Counseling Center functioning including:
Direct Clinical Care (Individual and Group Counseling)
- Provide individual and group counseling to NC State students/clients addressing personal, academic, and vocational concerns, including psychological assessment, developmental and crisis counseling, couples counseling, and evaluation of students for possible withdrawal from the University.
- Develop and participate in outreach programming.
- Provide consultation to faculty, staff, parents, and other stakeholders.
- Conduct evaluations and make recommendations regarding students with academic and conduct-related concerns.
- Participate in after-hours on-call coverage and, as needed, evening office hours.
Development and Support of the Outreach Program
- Respond to outreach requests and coordinate outreach services in collaboration with the Outreach Coordinator in Prevention Services.
- Oversee stigma reduction initiatives.
- Facilitate drop-in and embedded programming within campus centers.
- Serve as liaison to campus partners, including Multicultural Student Affairs, the African American Cultural Center, Women’s Center, Greek Life, GLBT Center, Recreation, Student Health, and other campus offices to support wellness programming.
- Maintain partnerships with Housing to develop and implement RA and RD training each summer, as well as ongoing booster programs throughout the academic year.
- Oversee designated prevention and intervention services assigned based on functional area and expertise, including both clinical and administrative responsibilities.
- Assess service utilization across student populations and develop strategies to enhance engagement and effectiveness.
Administrative and Clinical Supervision and Oversight (Staff Meetings, Clinical Meetings, Hiring, and Consultation)
- Participate in committee work and treatment teams as appropriate.
- Fulfill general administrative responsibilities.
- Develop and implement learning outcomes and assessment strategies to evaluate and improve programs.
- Consult with the Director as needed and complete the annual Counseling Center report.
- Provide clinical and administrative supervision to professional staff.
- Implement ongoing training aligned with licensure requirements and ethical standards.
- Assist with recruitment and retention of staff with varied areas of expertise.
- Facilitate regular consultation spaces focused on serving varied student populations.
Professional Development and Training
- Engage in continuing education focused on ethical clinical practice and culturally responsive services.
- Participate in the training and/or supervision of graduate students and early-career clinicians.
- Collaborate with the Continuing Education Committee on staff development initiatives.
- Actively participate in the Center’s training program by leading training seminars and providing supervision.
Outreach Responsibilities:
- Provide direct outreach service to campus community.
- Field outreach requests and coordinate the outreach response with outreach coordinator in Prevention Services.
- Oversee stigma reduction initiatives
- Facilitate drop in and embedded programs/hours for the campus centers
- Liaison with campus partners: Multicultural student affairs, African-American cultural center, Women’s Center, Greek Life, GLBT Center, Recreation, Student Health and other campus offices for programming that addresses wellness development
- Maintain partnership with housing that involves the development and implementation of RA and RD training schedules each summer and booster programs throughout the year.
- Oversee designated special services for both prevention and intervention that are assigned based on function and areas of expertise; this may include designated clinical and administrative functions
- Assess utilization of services by all types of students and develop strategies for intervention.
- Collaborate with the CE committee on education for staff
- Develop and implement learning outcomes and assessment strategies to evaluate and improve programs.
- Consult with Director as needed and complete annual report for Counseling Center.
- Actively participate in Center’s training program through leading Training Seminar and providing supervision
- Supervise professional staff both clinically and administratively
- Implement on-going training in accordance with clinical license and ethics for staff
- Assist in recruitment and retention of staff with a variety of expertise
- Oversee regular discussion spaces focused on working with all types of students
- Other duties as assigned.
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.
