Napa Valley College 

Counselor/Instructor, EOPS/NextUp/CARE/CalWORKs (Tenure-Track)

Salary: $65,071.00 - $84,700.00 Annually

Job Number: 2024-00040

Deadline: 1/31/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

Complete job description and application available online at: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/napavalley/jobs/4770318/counselor-instructor-eops-nextup-care-calworks-tenure-track

Napa Valley College is seeking an individual with demonstrated instructional skills to join an outstanding team of faculty, staff, and administrators to provide high quality programs and services to our district, our community, and most importantly, our students. 

The Napa Valley College Board of Trustees has established the goal of leading from a framework that advances diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and accessibility. Consistent with that goal, the Napa Valley College mission, vision, and values are being revised to reflect a focus on equity and a student-centered mission. The ideal candidate for this position centers on equity and social justice as core components of our mission, vision, and values. For more information about Napa Valley College, please click here. For information about our new housing complex for students AND employees, please click here.

This full-time, tenure-track faculty position works a 175-day faculty work year, in accordance with the district/faculty agreement, beginning August 2025 (fall semester).  Appointments are contingent upon Board approval.  Initial salary placement is $65,071 - $84,644 annually, with future steps to $119,657.  Placement on the salary range is commensurate with education and experience.  The college offers a fringe benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, employee assistance program, and CalSTRS membership. 

About Napa Valley College

Established in 1942, Napa Valley College (NVC) is one of 116 public community colleges in the California Community College system. NVC serves a diverse community of students by providing a wide range of high-quality educational programs and comprehensive student services, to help students succeed in the education, progress in the workplace, and engage in the civic and cultural life of the community. The College also stimulates the development and growth of the region through its educational, economic, and workforce opportunities, community partnerships and services.NVC is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for community and junior colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. NVC is also designated by the U.S. Department of Education as Hispanic-Serving Institution as it has an enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students that is more than 25 percent.

For more information about NVC, click here. For information about our new campus housing for students AND employees, click here.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direction of the Dean of Enrollment Services: 

Provide personal, academic and career counseling to EOPS, CARE, NextUp and CalWORKs students. 

Develop educational plans for EOPS, CARE, NextUp and CalWORKs students. 

Participate in appropriate counseling and faculty/staff meetings and college-wide student retention and success efforts. 

Act as a bridge between students and available on and off-campus resources to support educational retention and success.  

Assist in the outreach, recruitment and orientation of new EOPS, CARE, NextUp and CalWORKs students. 

Participate in special program activities to support foster youth’s academic and personal growth. This includes collaboration with local agencies and community partners to enrich the support network available to students.  

Develop and implement targeted strategies to improve foster youth’s retention rates and academic achievements, addressing educational and non-academic barriers to success.  

Serve as a strong advocate for foster youth across the campus community, striving to raise awareness of their needs and challenges.  

Perform other related duties as assigned.

Assignment may include a combination of day, evening, weekend, off-campus classes, and online or other technology-supported instruction. All contract and regular faculty are required to adhere to contractual obligations, meet assigned classes, maintain regular office hours, assist and advise students, participate in division activities and appropriate college committees, including regular faculty meetings of the department, division and College. Napa Valley College believes in ongoing professional development that assists faculty in improving their teaching skills, providing support to students, and encouraging responsibility within the college community.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications

Education: 

Master’s degree in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work or career development, or the equivalent, 

AND 

1. Have completed a minimum of nine semester units of college course work predominantly relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages 

OR 

2. Have completed six semester units or the equivalent of a college-level counseling practicum or counseling field-work courses in a community college EOPS program, or in a program dealing predominantly with ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages

AND 

Two years of occupational experience in work relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages

All degrees must be from an accredited institution. 

Experience: 

At least one year of full-time (or two years part-time) experience counseling and/or teaching at a community college or equivalent level

Demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and race/ethnic background of community college students

Title 8, USC, Section 1324-A requires verification of eligibility for employment in the United States. 

Desirable Professional Competencies: 

• One year of community college counseling experience working with EOPS or foster youth programs. 

• Demonstrated use of trauma-informed counseling practices. 

• Demonstrated experience conducting in-reach, outreach, and recruitment of diverse student populations in an educational setting. 

• Demonstrated knowledge and competency of community college counseling with specific knowledge in areas such as transfer and articulation, probation, career and technical education, STEM, and other unique areas of counseling. 

• Demonstrated success in assisting students from historically underrepresented and/or marginalized groups, nontraditional students, former/current foster youth, system impacted students, speakers of other languages, and students with disabilities. 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

A. Applicants must complete the online application through SchoolJobs.com. All elements of the application, including supplemental questions, must be submitted for the application to be considered complete.  

Internal applicants are still required to submit a complete application for this position. This includes submission of transcripts and all other required application materials.  

The District will not accept materials by e-mail, fax, or mail for this position.  

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS: If you are in need of special services or facilities due to a disability in order to apply or interview for this opening, please contact the Office of Human Resources, Training & Development.  

Napa Valley College, an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, maintains a drug-free workplace and requires that employees abide by that policy.  

For more information, contact the Office of Human Resources, Training & Development: 

2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway

Napa, CA 94558

(707) 256-7100 

jobline@napavalley.edu

For technical support, contact NEOGOV at (855) 524-5627.