Golden West College

Counselor, College Autism Program Coordinator (Tenure-Track)

Job# 5-G-26

Salary: $74,541.00 - $177,718.00 Annually

Deadline: 6/17/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

Full job description and OFFICIAL application available ONLY at: http://50.73.55.13/counter.php?id=303172

Golden West College is seeking a full-time, equity-minded, tenure-track faculty member in Counseling, commencing with the Fall 2025 semester. The primary teaching assignment involves all areas of Counseling with an added focus specifically on the College Autism Program. This assignment also includes curriculum and program development; participation in department, division, and college committees; participatory governance activities assuming leadership roles both within the department and in the institution as a whole; collaboration across disciplines; the leveraging of student support resources; participation in ongoing professional development; and maintaining and performing required accreditation for the program.

The assignment may be day, evening, weekend, online, hybrid, or off-campus and is subject to change as needed. The ideal candidate for this position embraces the overall mission of Golden West College and the Coast Community College District with a clear, focused commitment to offer inspiration, innovation and meaningful learning experiences to its diverse and changing community and prepares students to achieve success in post-secondary, career and technical, and life-long educational opportunities.

THE DEPARTMENT

The Disabled Student Programs & Services (DSPS) Department shares Golden West College’s commitment to equitable outcomes; inclusive practices; and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity. Ideal candidates for this position share GWC’s devotion to educating and improving the lives of our representative student, employee, and community populations.

Faculty have the opportunity to enhance their classroom methods during two professional development days during the academic year, which include learning sessions that support student success.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Coordinate and oversee the College Autism Program

• Liaison between faculty, staff, and DSPS department on behalf of our Autistic Students

• Provide trainings and professional development opportunities to enhance the understanding and inclusion of our Neurodivergent students

• Develop, run, and oversee the weekly Loop meetings for Autistic students

• Provide monthly grant activity reports to comply with federal, state, and local regulations

• Maintain currency within the assigned discipline(s)

• Demonstrate verbal and written communication proficiency with students, colleagues, and staff

• Demonstrate use of effective teaching methods and materials appropriate for the course, discipline, modality, and students

• Demonstrate compliance with course outline requirements and student learning outcomes

• Maintenance of regular and timely office hours

• Ensure confidential, accurate maintenance of student records

• Adhere to College and departmental requirements consistent with applicable bargaining agreement

• Demonstrate appropriate respect for students by demonstrating the following characteristics: patience, fairness, promptness in the evaluation and discussion of student work appropriate sensitivity and responsiveness to the needs of individual students; support of the diversity of our students, colleagues, and staff in actions, words, and teaching and learning methods.

• Demonstrate respect for colleagues and the teaching profession characterized by the following conduct:

acknowledging and defending the free inquiry of students, colleagues, and staff in the exchange of criticism and ideas; acting in accordance with the ethics of the profession and with a sense of personal integrity; working in a spirit of cooperation to develop and maintain a collegial atmosphere among faculty and staff while upholding and respecting academic freedom; demonstrating a commitment to and an engagement with the College, the division, and/or the department (as appropriate), and the profession; having the intellectual courage to share your professional opinion constructively, even when not the popular view, in pursuit of improvement; and having willingness to challenge yourself and others to re-evaluate practices in the pursuit of departmental, College, and District excellence.

• Provide instruction in Counseling in accordance with established course outlines.

• Provide leadership in the development and revision of Counseling curriculum responsive to the students served.

• Participate in curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation; participate in and develop programs to measure student performance.

• Maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics.

• Fulfill the professional responsibilities of a full-time faculty member including, but not limited to the following: teach all scheduled classes unless excused under provisions of Board Policy; follow the department course outlines; keep accurate records of student enrollment, attendance, and progress; submit student grades according to established deadlines; post and maintain scheduled office hours; participate in departmental meetings and college and/or district-wide activities and committees as assigned.

Qualifications and Physical Demands

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling

Master’s degree in counseling, guidance counseling, student personnel, clinical or counseling psychology, education counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy, marriage, family and child counseling,

or a Bachelor’s degree in marriage and family therapy or in marriage, family and child counseling and possession of a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT); and either 15 or more semester units in upper division or graduate level course work related to people with disabilities, or completion of six semester units, or the equivalent of a graduate-level counseling practicum or counseling field work courses, in a post-secondary Disabled Students Programs and Services program or in a program dealing with people with disabilities, or two years of fulltime experience,

or the equivalent, in one or more of the following:

(A) Counseling for students with disabilities; or

(B) Counseling in industry, government, public agencies, military or private social welfare organizations in which the responsibilities are for persons with disabilities, or the equivalent.

AND

Evidence of demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, geographic, gender, gender identity, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students. (California Code of Regulations Title 5 53022; Education Code Section 87360; Coast Community College District EEO Plan)

How to determine if you need Equivalency? Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements as stated in the job posting, but feel they have a combination of education and experience that would be equivalent to the State Minimum Qualifications (Download PDF reader), must attach a completed Application for Equivalency Form (Download PDF reader). This form must be included as an attachment to their online application, along with supporting documents, in addition to all other required materials.

Preferred Qualifications

• Willingness to examine and re-mediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students.

• Experience and sill with addressing issues of equity in the classroom.

• Experience and expertise in culturally responsive teaching in Counseling particularly as it relates to the relevance to students’ lives, interests, and communities.

• Demonstrated ability to address equity gaps within Counseling courses and classrooms.

• Evidence of an ability to self-reflect and respond to an evidenced-based assessment of student learning.

• Desire and demonstrated ability to participate actively in department, division, and college committees and in the shared governance of Coast Community College District.

• Desire and evidence of an ability to take on leadership roles both within the department and in the institution as a whole.

• Ability to work with computers, and use the Internet and interactive technologies to engage students in on-campus and online courses (where academically appropriate).

• Evidence of an ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

Coast Community College District is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Details

Counselor, College Autism Program Coordinator (Tenure-Track)

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