Counselor, Disabled Students Programs & Services; DSP&S; Part-Time Faculty Pool Clovis Commun

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Counselor, Disabled Students Programs & Services (DSP&S) (Part-Time Faculty Pool)

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Clovis Community College

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At Clovis Community College, we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students, and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An equity-minded individual is a person who:

Clovis Community College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship, and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Clovis Community College.

The ideal candidate will share Clovis Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  academic year, we enrolled over 13,000 students in which 48% identify as Latinx, 14% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% as Black/African American, 30% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 4% as multiracial. Clovis Community College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to providing services responsive to the students it serves.

Providing services at Clovis Community College, the counselor will cover a full range of counseling responsibilities including academic, career, transfer, and personal counseling to a diverse student population. The successful candidate for the counselor position will be responsible for:

• Applying an equity-minded framework and ensuring services and processes are designed and delivered to meet the diverse needs of specialized population of students;
• Assisting with coordinating and providing liaison services with high school special education case managers and related staff/faculty, college instructors, counselors, staff, and community partners such as California Department of Rehabilitation (CA DOR) to assist students in accessing appropriate accommodations and resources to support the student in the pursuit of their educational goals;
• Working assignments in various settings and times, including evening and/or weekend, online or off-campus. Feeder high school visits are an integral part of the job duties;
• Serving as an advocate for students with disabilities to facilitate equitable access to students transitioning into the community college;
• Evaluating verification of disability documentation, conducting interactive discussions, identifying educational limitations, and arranging for appropriate and reasonable accommodations which address those limitations;
• Developing/revising Academic Accommodation Plans (AAPs) and Student Educational Plans (SEPs) for students with disabilities;
• Providing specialized academic, career, personal, and disability management counseling to students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds;
• Facilitating/coordinating accommodations such as testing…