Temporary Part-Time Counselor

Counselor

Palo Verde College is a publicly supported 2-year college located in the beautiful Southeastern California desert. Yearly enrollment is approximately 7,000 students (full and part-time). Palo Verde Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing an educational environment which affirms and supports diversity in its faculty, staff, and administration, and promoting an environment of inclusion. At Palo Verde College, we value every team member's contribution in achieving the mission of providing excellent educational programs and services that contribute to the success of our students and the vitality of the community we serve.

We are looking for individuals who enjoy working collaboratively in an environment of diversity, culture, thinking, and learning. Palo Verde College is designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and proudly offers many programs to serve and support our diverse student body. College faculty are expected to be willing to utilize different learning and teaching methods appropriate to the students they serve.

Palo Verde College expands access to higher education and learning opportunities by providing education via in person, online, correspondence education, hybrid classes, and interactive television (ITV) modalities. Further information on the College's distance education programs can be found in the College Catalog. In addition, Palo Verde College is committed to serving students who have been impacted by the criminal justice system through education.

Resources for teaching classes for incarcerated or formerly incarcerated students are available through the Rising Scholar Network.

Palo Verde College is located in the City of Blythe at one of the busiest entrance points to California. The college is located in a desert oasis adjacent to the beautiful Colorado River and the Palo Verde Valley. Blythe, and the fertile Palo Verde Valley, is primarily a farming and ranching area. Boating, fishing and hunting attract many tourists. The Palo Verde Valley is centrally located between Phoenix and Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the Mexican border.

The valley's great climate, with more than 350 days of sunshine and mild winters, attracts thousands of winter visitors every year.

Under the direct supervision of the Associate Dean of Counseling, the Counselor's responsibilities include individual and group counseling, educational planning activities designed to enhance personal/social/emotional well-being of students and related services to meet the needs of prospective new and continuing students. The ideal candidate understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices.

This position includes serving students in Blythe, Needles, local state prisons, as well as distance education students.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Providing academic, career, and personal counseling to a diversified community college population
• Providing guidance and counseling services to credit and non-credit students; this includes advising, orientation, mentoring and interpretation of placement measures.
• Providing guidance and counseling on transfer, career, vocational, and other student success programs, utilizing various instruments and practices
• Providing regular follow up counseling
• Maintaining student educational plans utilizing technology tools and resources through advising modules
• Actively engaging in technological tools designed to assist the student and institution in moving students toward goal completion
• Ensuring student populations are engaged in a guided pathways framework, including completion of comprehensive educational plans.
• Meeting with probationary and dismissed students, monitoring progress regularly and assisting student in applying for reinstatement.
• Serving as a resource for faculty in dealing with individual student problems; refers students to appropriate campus and community resources as needed.
• Continue in related professional career development throughout employment and remain current in the field through course work, conferences, workshops and other appropriate means.
• Serve as a recruiter and liaison within the district.
• Participate in full-time staff responsibilities; including faculty, and student services meetings, and serve on various campus committees.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum qualifications include:

• A Master's in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling; OR the equivalent (
  
  NOTE:
  
  Pursuant to Title 5 section 53410.1, a bachelor's degree in one of the listed degrees and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) is an alternative qualification for this discipline).
• Sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic…