ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR DIVERSITY AND CAMPUS PARTNERSHIPS - University of Washington

Req #: 242118 Department: COUNSELING CENTER Appointing Department Web Address: https://wellbeing.uw.edu/unit/counseling-center/ Job Location Detail: Telework available 2x a week. Posting Date: 12/26/2024 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Salary: $7,333 - $10,333 per month Shift: First Shift Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230701\_a11y.pdf) **Although open until filled, priority application date is January 31, 2025.** As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. The Counseling Center embraces diversity as a core value and has a commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for individuals of many social, economic, cultural, ideological, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. We encourage one another to engage in difficult conversations about privilege, equity, and unconscious bias. We honor global, multicultural perspectives and uphold social justice values. We seek staff who have demonstrated commitment to supporting and empowering individuals from underrepresented and marginalized communities to promote student retention and success. We welcome creativity and a pro-active approach in designing interventions that will facilitate the wellbeing of our diverse student body, especially those belonging to groups traditionally underserved by the mental health care system. Clinicians who identify with communities who have been historically marginalized within systems of higher education are particularly encouraged to apply. **The UW Counseling Center has an outstanding opportunity for an Assistant Director for Diversity and Campus Partnerships position.** This position administers Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, the embedded counselor program, and outreach within the Counseling Center, and serves as a member of the Counseling Center leadership team. This position also provides short-term mental health counseling services, psycho-educational outreach to enrolled UW students, and consultation to the campus about student mental health. **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** Leadership, Administration, and Management + Provide administrative leadership within a large department staffed by licensed mental health professionals providing care to UW students. Serve as direct supervisor for licensed clinicians. Act as Director's designee when appropriate for campus, clinical and emergency coverage. + Lead DEI initiatives in the center, including visioning and implementation, as well as chairing the Cultivating Culture Committee. DEI initiatives include training and accountability within our staff as well as implementing strategies to address the needs of underserved and minoritized students. + Provide vision and coordination for the embedded liaison counselor program. This includes working with liaison units, and developing positions with new partners. + Provide vision and coordination for the center's outreach (programming, website and social media), within the larger context of co-creating a campus climate that promotes mental health. + Provide consultation to campus community regarding students in crisis. + Periodic interactions with press or other public media involving either issues of college student mental health or explanation of University services. + Engage meaningfully with leadership and campus partners at the university and division levels to advise, collaborate, and enhance campus climate + Steer the department in its endeavors to recruit, attract, and retain a diverse staff & trainee classes, in collaboration with the leadership team and engage in the delivery of direct psychotherapy, outreach, consultation, and emergency services to students and consultations to faculty, staff and families. + Develop assessment, evaluation and data management for the embedded liaison program to determine effectiveness and share with liaison units + Ability to work in a cross-cultural environment. Understanding the role of trauma (historical, community, family, and personal) in wellness and recovery is key. Cultural proficiency and expertise working with BIPOC students is required.Provide Direct Clinical Services + Provide initial/intake assessments, crisis intervention, and short-term individual, group, and couple counseling for enrolled University of Washington students. + Support the mental health of individuals from underrepresented and marginalized communities to promote student retention and graduation. + Provide crisis assessment and intervention when students present in distress.Outreach + Provide outreach presentations to student groups, classrooms, and others as requested. + To provide professional consultation to UW faculty, staff, family and students regarding student behavior, mental health, and academic challenges to enhance the campus climate for student success.Training + Participate in training of psychology interns especially around topics related to outreach, diversity, equity and inclusion. + Teach training seminars on topics of expertise and interest.Duties for all Counseling Center employees + Attend regular counseling center staff meetings and participate in other meetings and duties as appropriate. + Be part of an interdisciplinary team designed to enhance the mental health of UW students, create a healthier and more inclusive campus climate, and to respond to mental health crises. This includes participating in committees or other center projects. + Engage in other duties as assigned. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** + Four years of experience (can include internship) providing mental health counseling with college-aged clients, preferably in a university counseling center. + Master's Degree in mental health field. + Licensure as independent mental health provider for more than two years. **Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.** **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS** + Evidence of outstanding skills in clinical assessment, psychotherapy and counseling, crisis management, and psycho-education. + Demonstrated cultural proficiency and deep experience serving diverse populations. + Demonstrated commitment to racial and social justice. + Demonstrated skill in working well under pressure to prioritize and manage multiple administrative and clinical responsibilities. + Strong communication and interpersonal skills. + Strong organizational skills. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS** + Prior experience in supervision of other mental health professionals. + Experience working in a university counseling center. + Experience working with trauma. + Experience providing gender affirming care + Experience providing treatment via telehealth technology. + Demonstrated ability to work effectively with campus colleagues. **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select "Apply to this position". Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your "My Jobs" page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed. University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.