Job Details
The Program Director provides strategic, academic, and administrative oversight and leadership for the Community and Trauma Counseling (CTC) program. The Program Director collaborates closely with the Department Chair to advance the program’s mission, ensure academic excellence, support student success, and promote continuous improvement in teaching, scholarship, clinical training, and service.
The Program Director is responsible for the overall administration, quality, and growth of the program, including curriculum oversight, faculty leadership and development, student enrollment, retention, and success initiatives, clinical educator coordination, assessment, accreditation activities, strategic planning, and resource management. The Director ensures ongoing alignment of program policies, curriculum, and outcomes with professional counseling standards and accreditation requirements.
The Program Director serves as the primary leader and advocate for the program, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, student-centered culture that supports innovation, academic excellence, and engagement among faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community partners. The Director reports directly to the Department Chair and works collaboratively with departmental, college, and university leadership to achieve institutional goals and strategic priorities.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Provide overall leadership and administrative oversight of the Community and
Trauma Counseling Program.
• Collaborate with the Department Chair on strategic planning, program
development, budgeting, personnel management, and resource allocation.
• Lead programmatic accreditation efforts and ensure ongoing compliance with
accreditation standards, state regulations, and university, college, and program
policies.
• Oversee curriculum planning, implementation, assessment, and continuous
improvement to ensure program quality and relevance to the counseling
profession.
• Develop and implement strategies to support program growth, enrollment
management, recruitment, and community partnerships.
• Promote the visibility and reputation of the program through professional
engagement, outreach, scholarship, and service activities.
• Oversee development of new courses, certificates, concentrations, and
academic initiatives.
• Lead faculty recruitment, onboarding, orientation, workload planning, and
professional development initiatives.
• Supervise, mentor, develop, and evaluate full-time and adjunct faculty and
staff, including classroom observations, review of promotion progress, and
annual evaluations.
• Monitor program outcomes including student learning, retention, graduation,
licensure, and employment data, utilizing assessment results to guide
decision-making.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, scholarly engagement, and
commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Partner with clinical placement personnel, community agencies, and other
stakeholders to support practicum and internship experiences.
• Serve as a visible and accessible resource for students, supporting student
engagement, advising, retention, and professional development.
• Prepare reports, accreditation materials, assessment documentation, and
other administrative communications as required.
• Teach graduate courses and maintain an active record of scholarship and
service consistent with faculty rank and university expectations.
• Meet all faculty responsibilities outlined in the faculty contract.
• Complete other/additional administrative/program coordination duties as
assigned.
Job Description
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
- Core faculty must meet one of the following qualifications: Earned doctoral degree in Counseling or Counselor Education and Supervision, preferably from a CACREP-accredited program, or a related doctoral degree and full-time faculty employment in a counselor education program for a minimum of one full academic year before July 1, 2013; or Full-time doctoral-level faculty employment in a CORE-accredited master's program prior to July 1, 2017; or Graduation from a rehabilitation doctoral program prior to January 1, 2018.
- Must hold professional counseling credentials (i.e., LPC, LMHC, LCPC, or equivalent licensure). LPC is preferred.
- Minimum of three years of academic leadership, program coordination, or administrative experience in higher education.
- Must have a minimum of 3-5 years clinical experience in trauma-informed and related mental health service delivery.
- Must have a minimum of 3 years of graduate level teaching experience in counseling or a related discipline.
- Experience with outcomes assessment, accreditation, curriculum development, and online/hybrid education.
- Demonstrated commitment to student success, inclusive excellence, and collaborative leadership.
Preferred:
- Experience leading CACREP accreditation or accreditation review processes.
- Experience supervising counselor trainees and clinical education activities.
- Candidate expertise in addictions and recovery is a plus, as is expertise in play therapy or art therapy in the treatment of trauma impacted clients
- Demonstrated success in program growth, enrollment management, and development of innovative academic initiatives.
A review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Candidates should submit a 1) letter of interest, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) a statement of teaching philosophy and the candidate's approach to scholarship and/or contributions to the counseling profession, and 4) the contact information of 3 professional references in a single PDF addressed to Nicole Mckinney, Interim Department Chair of the Counseling and Behavioral Health Department, and Julianna Despinos, Associate Dean of Administration and Student Affairs. Electronic submissions accepted as a single pdf submitted by email to FacultyRecruitment@jefferson.edu
As part of the application process interested candidates must also submit an on-line application/CV at: http://hr.jefferson.edu/human-resources.html enter REQ-0034540 in the search box
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Philadelphia University
Primary Location Address
3243 School House Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
