Assistant Professor

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation • Center City, MN

2d • $74,598 - $108,703 • Remote

About The Position

As a core teaching faculty member, this position will be responsible for educating future leaders in addiction and mental health counseling to improve treatment and recovery from substance use and mental health disorders. This position is fully remote with responsibilities in our CACREP-accredited online program, with occasional trips to our Center City campus. This position innovates and continuously improves key educational processes based on educational research, internal assessment data, and academic expertise, so that course offerings, teaching strategies, and curriculum development demonstrate achievement of all program learning outcomes.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision or Counseling, or closely related field consistent with CACREP requirements for core faculty.
• Minimum of one year experience substance use counseling/treatment or prevention, or closely related field.
• Teaching, lecturing, and/or training experience in higher education, with online teaching experience preferred.
• Competency in PC applications Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Nice To Haves

• Current professional license, i.e., addiction counseling, mental health counseling
• Knowledge of current educational technology tools
• Experience designing and teaching online graduate courses
• Demonstrable counselor identity and involvement in counseling professional associations, such as the American Counseling Association, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and NAADAC

Responsibilities

• Teach and revise course content to ensure optimum learning outcomes
• Provide supervision necessary to promote acquisition of student competency through clinical placement experiences
• Provide academic advising and coaching in order to promote successful scholastic adjustment and school performance
• Continually seek and demonstrate knowledge in higher learning and in addiction/mental health treatment and recovery to facilitate the development of expertise in students and other professionals
• May design and deliver online courses and develop relevant policies and procedures with direction from the Director of Online Learning
• Participate in all aspects of the Graduate School to promote continuous improvement of key educational processes
• Demonstrates academic leadership through expert teaching practices including educational research, program innovation, curriculum design and related publications

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Dental and Vision Plans
• Retirement savings plan with employer match
• Paid time-off
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree