Orange Coast College

Director, Disabled Student Services

Job# OM-005-21

Salary: $102,800.00 - $136,621.00 Annually

Deadline: 10/23/20 11:59 PM

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Summary

Plans, organizes, manages, and participates in developing comprehensive services, access, programs, and support systems for students with physical, communications, learning, psychological, acquired brain injured, and other disabilities and/or difficulties with access to higher education.

Distinguishing Career Features

The Director, Disabled Student Programs and Services is a first-level manager, directing and advocating for services and program support to students including those with a disability, and may also direct those activities for potentially disadvantaged students of an ethnic minority group, low income, first-generation college, or veterans. The Director administers specific programs that contribute to the academic and social growth of disabled students and others at risk of not completing educational goals. The Director requires the ability to assess learning disabilities, direct and arrange for substantive instructional support and appropriate advocacy, and oversee the provision of services that gives the students access to learning and campus life opportunities.

Qualifications and Physical Demands

Knowledge and Skills

• Requires the ability to carry out all aspects of the position.

• Requires the ability to establish program goals and measurable outcomes, translated to levels of service, and subordinate staff expectations.

• Requires the ability to learn and apply regulations governing access and accommodations such as but not limited to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title 5.

• Requires the ability to develop training programs and instruct students in the use of learning assistance equipment and programs.

• Requires the ability to research and enact modern and new teaching, learning, and training methods.

• Requires the ability to organize, plan, develop, and write new programs, develop new concepts, analyze outcomes, and prepare clear and concise reports.

• Requires the ability to guide and motivate others toward goal achievement.

• Requires the ability to direct and facilitate the development of personal and team perspectives, develop and deliver training programs.

• Requires the ability to develop and monitor budgets and maximize financial resources.

• Requires understanding, sensitivity to, and commitment to meeting the needs of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic background of the student, community, and employee population.

• Requires the ability to advocate for shared governance, collegiality, the cohesiveness of staff, and the core values of the institution.

• Requires the ability to demonstrate unique sensitivity to students with disabilities and offer encouragement, build confidence, enhance self-esteem, and assist with establishing personal academic and other goals.

• Requires the ability to work cooperatively and productively with internal and external constituencies.

Abilities

• Requires the ability to perform the essential responsibilities of the position.

• Requires the ability to establish program goals and measurable outcomes, translated to levels of service, and subordinate staff expectations.

• Requires the ability to learn and apply regulations governing access and accommodations such as but not limited to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title 5.

• Requires the ability to develop training programs for, and instruct students in the use of learning assistance equipment and programs.

• Requires the ability to research and enact modern and new teaching, learning, and training methods.

• Requires the ability to organize, plan, develop, and write new programs, develop new concepts, analyze outcomes, and prepare clear and concise reports.

• Requires the ability to guide and motivate others toward goal achievement.

• Requires the ability to direct and facilitate the development of personal and team perspectives, develop and deliver training programs.

• Requires the ability to develop and monitor budgets and maximize financial resources.

• Requires understanding, sensitivity to, and commitment to meeting the needs of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic background of the student, community, and employee population.

• Requires the ability to advocate for shared governance, collegiality, the cohesiveness of staff, and the core values of the institution.

• Requires the ability to demonstrate unique sensitivity to students with special needs and offer encouragement, build confidence, enhance self-esteem, and assist with establishing personal academic and other goals.

• Requires the ability to work cooperatively and productively with internal and external constituencies.

Physical Abilities

• The general physical demands, working conditions, and essential job functions associated with this classification will be kept on file with the Office of Human Resources.

• Essential functions will vary by position.

• As defined by Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”), the District shall engage in a timely, good-faith interactive process with employees or employment applicants who are requesting or are in need of reasonable accommodations and, provide reasonable accommodations for employees or employment applicants who, because of their disability, are limited in or unable to perform one or more of the essential functions of their job in accordance with applicable state and federal law.

Education and Experience

DSPS Counselor Qualifications The minimum qualifications for service as a community college counselor of students with disabilities shall be satisfied by meeting one of the following requirements;

1. Possession of a master's degree, in rehabilitation counseling, OR,

2. A master's degree in counseling, guidance, student personnel, clinical or counseling psychology, education counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy, marriage, family and child counseling, OR,

3. A bachelor’s degree in marriage and family therapy or in marriage, family and child counseling AND possession of a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) AND either fifteen or more semester units in upper-division or graduate-level course work specifically related to people with disabilities, OR completion of six-semester units, OR the equivalent of a graduate-level counseling practicum or counseling fieldwork courses, in a post-secondary Disabled Student Programs and Services OR in a program dealing predominantly or exclusively with people with disabilities, OR two years of full-time experience or the equivalent in one or more of the following:  a) Counseling for students with disabilities, OR b) Counseling in industry, government, public agencies, military or private social welfare organizations in which the responsibilities of the position were predominantly or exclusively for persons with disabilities, or the equivalent.

Licenses and Certificates

May require a valid driver's license.

Working Conditions

Work is performed indoors where minimal safety considerations exist

THE COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER