Orange Coast College

Counselor, General

Job# 2-O-23

Salary: $65,953.00 - $152,477.00 Annually

Deadline: 2/25/2022 11:59 PM Pacific

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The Counseling shares OCC’s commitment to equitable outcomes; inclusive practices; and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity.  Ideal candidates for this position share OCC’s devotion to educating and improving the lives of our representative student, employee, and community populations. We currently enroll 18,705 students, the majority of whom are from racially minoritized populations: 34% of OCC’s students are Latinx, 2% are African-American, 25% are Asian, less than 1% Native American, 30% are White, and 5% are multiracial. Faculty have the opportunity to enhance their classroom methods during two professional development days during the academic year, which include learning sessions like “Digital Accessibility”, “Basic Skills:  Helping students help themselves” and “Taking a skills-based approach to teaching college students”. Student-centered activities that support OCC’s mission include campus-wide student success projects funded by the Office of Student Equity; partnerships with local Hispanic Serving four-year institutions; active programs that work to improve the academic achievement of racially minoritized students, such as PUENTE and UMOJA; Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) and Disabled Student Program and Services (DSPS).     

Counseling services at Orange Coast College are in place to help students identify and clarify personal, career, and educational goals. The intent is to help students choose options that will improve the quality of their lives. The Counseling Division serves all students, whether bound for transfer or in pursuit of career and technical programs. Counselors work to encourage students to explore interests and goals across the curriculum. This is done holistically thin the context of each student’s background, competencies, motivation, family situation, and outside obligations. Counseling intersects and collaborates with instructional disciplines, student services, four-year colleges, universities, and local high schools to provide targeted interventions to students from recruitment and onboarding through graduation and educational goal completion. We encourage innovative counseling and teaching as well as student and faculty engagement outside of the classroom.

Orange Coast College Employee-Student Demographic Information

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide comprehensive educational, career, transfer, and personal counseling to current and prospective and prospective students.

• Assist students in making decisions relative to career/major choice and educational planning leading to certificates, degrees, and/or transfer.

• Provide instruction in Counseling in accordance with established course outlines.

• Provide leadership in the development and revision of the Counseling materials, resources, and curriculum responsive to the students served.

• Participate in curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation; participate in and develop programs to measure student performance.

• Maintain current knowledge in the subject matter including counseling best practices curriculum, articulation, and state and local initiatives that inform the profession.

• Provide appropriate counseling and transfer information to general and special student populations, including veterans, disadvantaged, first-generation, international, equity groups, disabled students, and re-entry students.

• Participate, as appropriate, in the college’s outreach program with local high schools and the community as it relates to collaborating and strengthening the pipeline between the high school, community college, four-year institutions, and industry.

• Develop effective working relationships with faculty members in other instructional disciplines and perform liaison activities as appropriate.

• Assist in the preparation of counseling-related publications.

• Assist students in seeking referral to appropriate community agencies or services in response to educational, vocational, or personal concerns.

• Participate in professional growth activities on and/or off-campus.

• Assist in the development and implementation of innovative and special programs and initiatives.

• Maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics.

• Fulfill the professional responsibilities of a full-time faculty member including, but not limited to the following: teach all scheduled classes unless excused under provisions of Board Policy; follow the department course outlines; keep accurate records of student enrollment, attendance, and progress; submit student grades according to established deadlines; post and maintain scheduled office hours; participate in departmental meetings and college and/or district-wide activities and committees as assigned.

• Ability to contribute to campus and district-wide professional responsibilities and activities.

• Ability to complement existing staff, student, and community demographics in terms of professional and personal skills.

 • The assignment may include day, evening, weekend, and online sections.

Qualifications and Physical Demands

Minimum Qualifications 

• Must meet one of the following qualifications under (1) through (3)  and demonstrated evidence of D.E.I. (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion): 

• Valid California Community College Instructor credential, appropriate to the subject, per Education Code 87355 (issued prior to July 1, 1990); OR

• Master's in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling; OR

• A Bachelor's degree in one of the listed degrees and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) must be valid in California is an alternative qualification for this discipline; OR

• Possess a combination of education and experience that is at least the equivalent to the above. Candidates making an application on the basis of equivalency must submit an Application for Equivalency in addition to all other required materials.  Please see "Additional • Information" below to determine if you need to submit an Application for Equivalency.

AND

Demonstrated evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the racial, ethnic, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, academic, and cultural diversity within the community college student population, including students with different ability statuses (e.g., physical and/or learning) as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practice within the classroom.

Desirable Qualifications:  

• Recent experience working with African American, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom, and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups within higher education and the field of Counseling shape patterns of participation and outcomes.

• Willingness to examine and re-mediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students.

• Experience and skill with addressing issues of equity in the classroom.

• Experience and expertise in culturally responsive teaching in Counseling, particularly as it relates to the relevance of Counseling to students’ lives, interests, and communities.

• A minimum of 2 years of counseling and teaching at the post-secondary level.

• Demonstrated knowledge of community college curricula and higher education systems

• Experience in blending student success strategies such as goal setting, time management, problem-solving, student methods, and research skills into the counseling curriculum.

• Evidence of a strong commitment to professional growth and development and the continued innovation and improvement of successful counseling and teaching.

• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with on-campus groups (including students, faculty, administrators, and staff) as well as off-campus community and education partners.

• Evidence of participation in counseling/transfer related initiatives

• Demonstrated ability to address equity gaps within Counseling courses and classrooms.

• Evidence of an ability to self-reflect and respond to an evidence-based assessment of student learning.

• Desire and demonstrated ability to participate actively in the department, division, and college committees and in the shared governance of Coast Community College District.

• Desire and evidence of an ability to take on leadership roles both within the department and in the institution as a whole.

• Ability to work with computers, and use the Internet and interactive technologies to engage students in on-campus and online courses (where academically appropriate).

• Evidence of an ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

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