[Hiring] Adjunct Faculty - Mental Health Counseling @Covista

Role Description

Faculty for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program are sought to teach and mentor students in their role as mental health counselors. The Mental Health Counseling program focuses on preparing students academically, professionally, and personally to become skilled counselors.

• Training: All new Faculty Members receive specific training from Walden University in the techniques of online teaching, use of an electronic learning platform, specifics of the policies, procedures, and degree programs of the School or College in which they are going to teach, socialization into the Walden University culture, assessment of the academic integrity of student work, and research supervision of theses and dissertations.
• Course Teaching/Availability: Faculty Members are assigned a course, which is taught using the Blackboard platform, and are responsible for interacting with students within this platform. Discussion Boards for classrooms are open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Faculty Members are expected to be in the classroom a minimum of 4 days per week and responses to student questions must be posted within 48 hours.
• Travel Requirements: Some travel could be required (minimally once per quarter).
• Residencies: Adjunct Faculty may be asked to attend residencies/Pre-practica held domestically, where they will teach intensives and colloquia, and facilitate school and university-wide discussions.
• Tools/Technical Skills: To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Adjunct faculty may complete training in dissertation chairing and service and are eligible to serve on doctoral dissertations.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Earned doctorate in Counseling or Counselor Education from a CACREP accredited program at an accredited institution.
• Current state licensure as a mental health professional.
• Minimum of three years of experience teaching and mentoring Master's and/or Doctoral level students, including directing thesis/dissertation research preferred.
• Ability to provide leadership and mentoring for students in the research process and a strongly student-centered nature.
• Interest in establishing a community of mental health students.
• Ability to provide leadership and support in program assessment.
• Ability to assume a significant role in addressing student questions and concerns about the program.
• Experience supervising students in their field training experience.
• Commitment to the goals of diversity and social change.
• Ability to work with non-traditional students.
• Ability to participate in residencies/pre-practica, national faculty meetings and other work-related travel.

Requirements

• Faculty members are required to have an adequate computer to handle an electronic learning platform, keyboard, pointing device, and computer monitor.
• Must be able to use Microsoft Office products (MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint), zip software, and Adobe Acrobat.
• Must have reliable Internet access as well as alternate access in cases where primary access becomes unavailable.
• Faculty Members must be appropriately credentialed, possess an earned degree from an accredited institution or recognized by a country's ministry of education in the discipline being taught, and may be expected to be licensed or license-eligible in order to teach in specific programs.
• Faculty Members must maintain their licenses and any appropriate certifications in order to continue to teach at Walden University.
• Faculty Members are also expected to maintain currency with research by reviewing articles, journals, and presentations.

Benefits

• Graduate Course Instruction: $1,560 - $4,080 per Quarter or Semester, depending on type of course taught and length of course.
• Undergraduate Course Instruction: $700 - $2,200 per quarter, depending on type of course taught and length of course.
• Actual pay may be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as type of course taught; experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility.
• Walden also offers other opportunities for its contributing faculty members, such as dissertation/doctoral study committee chair positions, research reviewing, and dissertation and doctoral study mentoring.