Associate Disabilities Specialist

Associate Disabilities Specialist

Associate Disabilities Specialist (Part-Time) Tentative Interviews: ASAP Tentative

Start Date:

Fall 2026

Location:

Oroville, CA For salary information, . Placement on the salary schedule is dependent upon education and/or experience. Selected candidates must reside in California.

Position highlights:
As an associate faculty with Disabled Student Programs (DSPS), your responsibilities will include:

• Administering and interpreting both group and individual tests for the purposes of determining the existence, nature, and extend of students' learning limitations;
• Interviewing, screening and certifying students referred because of suspected learning disabilities;
• Determining eligibility for academic accommodations;
• Developing academic accommodation plans;
• Providing disability-related advising;
• Assisting with DSPS recruitment and outreach;
• Developing and conducting in-service training for faculty and staff; and
• Recruiting, hiring, training, assigning supervising and evaluating the work of student assistants.

Butte College's main campus is located on a 928-acre wildlife refuge, and we pride ourselves on being a national college leader in sustainability. Community partnerships matter to us. We work with our K-12 partners to create career pathways for students to seamlessly move from high school to Butte College coursework or credit to transfer to a four-year university. In fact, Butte College has the highest transfer rate of all California Community Colleges to California State University, Chico.

Butte College contributes to economic development through the Training Plane and the Small Business Development Center.

Associate Faculty are employed by semester and may work up to a maximum annual load of 33.5% per primary term adding to a maximum total of 67% for the sum of both primary terms with additional possibilities in the summer terms.

A. Job Specific

• Determining the existence, nature, and extent of students' learning limitations (cognition, language, perception, memory achievement);
• Reviewing documentation, identifying, and assigning students to the appropriate and fundable DSPS disability category (i.e., acquired brain injury, psychological disability, physical disability, communications disability); and
• Certifying students who meet the DSPS criteria and Title V regulations for services or support as learning or developmentally disabled.