POSITION DESCRIPTION

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• Full Time

The Associate Director for Counseling Services is responsible for the administration and oversight of the APA-accredited Health Service Psychology internship training program. This includes recruiting, selecting, and orienting interns; planning and scheduling training experiences; coordinating services provided by external consultants and supervisors; managing communication and documentation with interns’ doctoral training programs; providing clinical supervision; maintaining all documentation required for APA accreditation; and attending the ACCTA conference. The Associate Director also leads the administration of externship services and seminars, including the externship supervision seminar. They supervise doctoral interns and externs in the administration of screening and psychotherapy, provide personal, vocational, and academic counseling and psychotherapy to counseling center clients, and manage the summer rotation schedule for interns. Additionally, the Associate Director consults with members of the Pace Community on psychological, emotional, and environmental issues that affect student development.

• Provide counseling for students regarding personal, academic, vocational, and educational matters.
• Provide crisis intervention during business hours and assisting with back up on-call and walk-in coverage.
• Maintain complete and professionally appropriate office records.
• Oversees and coordinates all aspects of the Psychology Internship Program. This includes application, recruitment, and orientation process; interview and selection process; communications with interns home program; supervision of the clinical work of each intern; conducting meetings with interns; evaluation of interns progress; documentation and communication with the American Psychological Association around maintenance of accreditation; overall evaluation of the internship training program; attend ACCTA conference.
• Supervision of externship activities, services and seminars provided by the Counseling Center.
• Leads externship supervision seminar.
• Provides consultation services for faculty and administrative offices.
• Participates in projects, programs, groups, outreach efforts, and workshops offered by Counseling Services and/or requested by other University offices and groups in an effort to attract, recruit, and retain diverse student population.
• Interact with faculty, staff, administrators, students, and professionals regarding individual clients, program development, and problem resolution.
• Assist the Director of Counseling in preparing Counseling Center reports and assist in interfacing with University-wide initiatives and committees and represent Counseling Center on student experience.
• Leadership role in managing crises on campus and participate in emergency-preparedness initiatives.
• Organizes quality assurance surveys of individual, group, and screening (once per semester).
• Creates and and coordinates the trainee caseload, the Master Schedule (daily list of training and Center activities and responsibilities), and the Important Dates (annual).
• Performs other such duties as assigned from time to time.

Work Hours

Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and when crises occur after hours during on-call rotation.

ABOUT PACE UNIVERSITY

About the Institution

Ranked in the top 9% of private US colleges that provide the best return on tuition investment, Pace University transforms the lives of its diverse students—academically, professionally, and socioeconomically. Currently, the University enrolls more than 13,000 students in more than 150 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs. Pace University is at the forefront of creating opportunity. Through the convergence of strong academics, experiential learning, and dedicated advising, Pace University empowers its students and positively impacts its communities.

Benefits Offered

Pace University provides a competitive benefit program designed to offer the following:

• Medical, vision and dental insurance for preventive care or diagnostic and surgical procedures as well as an incentivized medical plan waiver option for those who choose not to participate (FT Employees).
• Income protection in the event an employee is not actively at work, due to illness (FT Employees).
• 403B investment opportunity to save toward financial security in retirement (PT and FT Employees).
• Programs and services that assist in balancing work and personal life (PT and FT Employees).
• Educational opportunities for the employee and eligible members of their family to pursue a degree at Pace or another higher education institution (PT and FT Employees).
• Opportunity for faculty and staff to participate in Pace’s award-winning health and wellness program, Pace Yourself to Wellness, which is designed to inspire employees to engage in healthy habits while optimizing health care resources (PT and FT Employees).
• Discount purchase plans for everything from entertainment, shopping and travel (PT and FT Employees).

AA/EEO Statement

Pace University is committed to achieving full equal opportunity in all aspects of University life. Pursuant to this commitment, the University does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived sex, gender or gender identity; race; color; national origin; religion; creed; age; disability; citizenship; marital or domestic partnership status; sexual orientation or affectional status; genetic predisposition or carrier status; military or veteran status; status as a victim of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking; or any other characteristic protected by law federal, state or local law, rule or regulation.

Annual Security Report Notice

Pace is committed to ensuring the safety and security of the students, faculty, staff and visitors to the University. In compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the University’s Safety and Security department publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, which can be accessed here. The report contains information on security policies as well as crime and fire statistics for the University.

COMPENSATION

Base Pay from $112,000 to $118, 450

APPLICATION MATERIALS

Cover letter, CV, three references