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Full-Time
Associate Director
University Counseling Center
Posted on 11/23/2025
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
No salary listed
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship
Corpus Christi, TX, USA
In Person
Category
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Required Skills
Risk Management
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Psychology field.
- Licensure as a professional counselor or psychologist in Texas or ability to obtain Texas licensure within 6 months of hire.
- Eight (8) years of post-masters professional counseling experience in a counseling center or outpatient counseling setting.
- Additional education may be considered as a substitution for minimum experience requirement: Doctoral degree in counseling or psychology field with six (6) years of related experience in a counseling center or outpatient counseling setting
- Demonstrated program development, coordination, and evaluation experience
- Demonstrated experience with mental health clinic administration
- Experience supervising licensed clinical staff in a university counseling center or similar entity
- Knowledge of applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations.
- Proven ability to effectively manage, lead and motivate employees.
- Ability to establish priorities, goals and objectives for mental health clinic.
- Strong decision-making and organizational leadership skills.
- Demonstrated competency in providing short-term counseling, crisis intervention, and triage services to adolescents or young adults in an outpatient clinical setting
- Experience in assessment and intervention of individuals with a range of disorders and serious mental health concerns, including trauma and life-threatening crises.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and high level of professionalism and professional ethics.
- Ability to interact effectively and professionally with students, staff, faculty and administrators
- Knowledge and experience with Electronic Medical Records systems
- Multicultural awareness and multicultural counseling competency.
Responsibilities
- Provides oversight for the day to day operations of the University Counseling Center's clinical services and clinical service delivery model.
- Ensures quality management and adherence and compliance with legal, ethical, and professional standards in all areas of service delivery.
- Leads brief morning check-in meetings twice a week and coordinates biweekly informal staff professional development meetings.
- Develops, communicates, and maintains clinical policies and procedures in collaboration with the leadership team.
- Assists with departmental strategic planning, implementation of identified goals and initiatives, revisions to departmental procedures and paperwork, and evaluating and assessing the center operations to optimize service delivery.
- Assists with coordination of electronic health records system including clinician schedule management.
- Assists Director with implementation of risk management initiatives.
- Represents the University Counseling Center in the absence of the Director.
- Assist with back-up on-call coverage for contracted on-call service (Protocall)
- Provides supervision, guidance, consultation and direction to 3-5 designated clinical staff
- Serves as director on duty 1-2 days per week and provides consultation and guidance to triage counselors regarding clinical dilemmas and crises.
- Provide professional counseling services including intake and clinical assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, brief individual and group counseling, consultation, and referrals.
- Maintain documentation of services within electronic medical records system in an accurate and timely manner.
- Provide back-up triage counselor-on-duty services as needed.
- Participate in biweekly case conferences and informal case consultation to coordinate client care.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Serves on JED campus committee, attends monthly meetings, and assists with JED campus framework implementation.
- Serves on the THRIVE 365 committee and assists with planning of THRIVE campus events.
- Serves on the behavior intervention team (BIT), attends weekly meetings, and provides consultation as needed to the BIT team case manager and chair.
- Provide consultation and outreach services to students, campus and community members related to mental health issues and student concerns.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- Doctoral degree in Counseling, Psychology or closely related field
- Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor or Licensed Psychologist in Texas.
- Two (2) years of administrative and supervisory experience in a university counseling center or outpatient counseling setting.
- Eight (8) years of professional post-masters counseling experience in a college counseling center.
- Experience providing clinical supervision and training to master's level counseling trainees in a college or university counseling center.
- Experience with running reports and administration of Point and Click or similar electronic health record system.
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