"General/Wellness Counselor (Tenure Track)"

Job Description

Position Title

General/Wellness Counselor (Tenure Track)

Position Details:
Thank you for your interest in applying for the tenure-track faculty position in counseling at DVC! We are eager to learn about who you are and why you are passionate about Counseling at our community college. We want to know what you are like as a counselor, colleague, and member of a campus community.

We are looking for a colleague who will demonstrate discipline expertise and show sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic backgrounds and abilities of community college students.

We are looking for faculty who share a strong commitment to social and racial justice and who use or are inspired to use anti-racist pedagogies and counseling strategies that close equity gaps by recognizing, understanding, and respecting the perspectives of all students.

We strongly encourage those with historically marginalized and/or underrepresented identities to apply, including people of color, non-binary and transgender individuals, women, and Indigenous people.

This position requires on-campus counseling.

Description of Position

Diablo Valley College inspires, educates, and empowers a diverse community of students to transform their lives and their communities. DVC counselors /instructors close the equity gaps by fostering success among all students. To help further this work, DVC seeks a tenure-track General / Wellness Counselor to start in Fall 2026.

We are looking for a colleague who will demonstrate discipline expertise and show sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic backgrounds and abilities of community college students.

We are looking for counseling faculty who share a strong commitment to social and racial justice and who use or are inspired to use anti-racist pedagogies that close equity gaps by recognizing, understanding, and respecting the perspectives of all students.

We strongly encourage those with historically marginalized and/or underrepresented identities to apply, including people of color, non-binary and transgender individuals, women, and Indigenous people.

The General/Wellness Counselor will provide both academic and wellness counseling to community college students. In collaboration with the Wellness and CARE Teams, the General/Wellness counselor will be providing non-clinical case management to students who are referred to the CARE Team – connecting students to basic needs resources, providing crisis counseling, and counseling students who are in distress. However, providing therapy to students is not a part of this role.

This role will require that the individual use a variety of cross-cultural counseling techniques and strategies to provide academic, career, and personal counseling to students. In addition, the individual will create workshops, lead trainings for colleagues, and provide personal, academic, and career counseling to students in one-on-one appointments. In collaboration with the Wellness and CARE Teams, the position will include crisis counseling, non-clinical case management, and connecting students to basic needs resources on and off-campus.

Duties and Responsibilities

In addition to contractual duties for this position which will include counseling and program coordination, all faculty are expected to participate actively in their disciplines, in their departmental activities and in the general intellectual life and governance of the college. Part of the counseling assignment may be in the evening program. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Serving as a lead member of the CARE (behavioral intervention) Team
2. Providing non-clinical case management for students referred to the CARE Team
3. Providing crisis counseling and intervention for students in distress
4. Connecting students to off-campus community health resources appropriate for a diverse population of community college students
5. Guiding students in developing educational plans that will lead to completion of certificates, associate degrees, and/or transfer
6. Assisting students with decision-making and the exploration of their educational, career, and personal goals
7. Adhering to the schedule that has been developed with the Department Chairpersons, which may include individual student appointments, drop-in counseling, leading workshops, and occasional weekend or evening campuswide events
8. Collaborating with the Wellness Team faculty, staff, and administrators in support of the Wellness and mental health goals of the institution
9. Participating in the college governance process, including attendance at all department and division meetings, and serving on college-wide committees
10. Participating in professional development activities, regional, departmental and college-wide and maintaining current knowledge of counseling techniques and other effective student support intervention strategies
11. Maintaining appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics
12. Performing other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualification-Education/Experience

Understanding of and sensitivity to the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, sexual orientation and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, staff and faculty.

The applicant must possess one of the following qualifications (earned degrees must be from an accredited college/university):

Masters 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: A bachelors degree in one of the listed degrees and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) is an alternative qualification for this discipline.)

Desirable Qualifications

Highly qualified candidates will possess knowledge, skills, and experience that address the desirable qualifications below. Responses to the supplemental questions below allow the applicant to describe how they meet these qualifications.

1. Experience with non-clinical case management in mental health/wellness counseling
2. Demonstrated commitment to student learning and promoting success of all community college students from diverse cultures, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and/or disabilities in an open access learning environment, with emphasis on serving Latinx, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and Veteran populations and people of varying levels of academic preparation and varying physical and learning abilities
3. Demonstrated experience in providing crisis counseling in an academic or institutional setting
4. Demonstrated experience in providing academic and career counseling to community college students

Salary

Initial salary placement for full-time, tenure track positions is based on academic degree(s), upper/graduate level units earned, teaching experience and/or qualifying related professional occupation experience which ranges from $68,136 to $112,848 per year (Up to $132k).

Location

Diablo Valley College

Position Status

Tenure-Track

Employee Group

Full-Time Faculty

Department

D4000-Counseling Division

Discipline

Counseling

How to Apply

1. Interested applicants must submit all of the application materials online to be considered for this position. We do not accept hand-delivered, e-mailed, faxed or postal mailed application packets.
2. It is your responsibility to ensure that all application materials are received on or before the closing date. Our application deadline time is 11:59pm on the specified closing date.
3. You should submit an unofficial transcript for screening purposes. If you do not have electronic version of the transcript required for the position, you can have it scanned by a Staples, Office Max or Office Depot, etc. All applicants will have an opportunity to upload transcripts when completing our online application process. You should be prepared to provide an official transcripts prior to employment start date should the position be offered.
4. If you do not possess the required educational degrees and are applying under the equivalency process, you bear the responsibility of submitting the Districts Equivalency Application. Equivalency applications with supporting documentation should be submitted when 1) degrees are not in exact discipline required; 2) degree is in progress; 3) degrees were earned at a college or university outside of the United States. All applicants will have an opportunity to upload an equivalency form for evaluation by a college equivalency committee when completing our online application process.
5. Applicants with foreign degrees must provide official certification of equivalency to United States degrees. An approved National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) agency must evaluate your course work. All applicants will have an opportunity to upload a foreign degree evaluation for review of by a college equivalency committee when completing our online application process. Please read more details in the Foreign Degree and Credit Statement section of the job announcement.
6. Documents uploaded online must be the actual documents to be considered for review. Do not upload a “placeholder” document. Applications with placeholder documents are considered incomplete and will be rejected. Only upload the required documents, other materials can be presented if you are selected for an interview.
7. All application materials become the property of the district and will not be returned or duplicated.

Job Open Date: 11/14/2025

Job Close Date: 01/29/2026

Open Until Filled No

Employment Begins: 2026 Fall