Job Description
General/Wellness Counselor (Tenure Track) Posting Number: F01287
Location: Diablo Valley College
Salary: 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.
Inquiries: Please contact Matt Munday at mmunday@dvc.edu
Position Status: Tenure- Track
EEO Job Category: Faculty & Other Instructional Staff
Employee Group: Full-Time Faculty
Department: D4000-Counseling Division
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:
- Serving as a lead member of the CARE (behavioral intervention) Team
- Providing non-clinical case management for students referred to the CARE Team
- Providing crisis counseling and intervention for students in distress
- Connecting students to off-campus community health resources appropriate for a diverse population of community college students
- Guiding students in developing educational plans that will lead to completion of certificates, associate degrees, and/or transfer
- Assisting students with decision-making and the exploration of their educational, career, and personal goals
- 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
- Collaborating with the Wellness Team faculty, staff, and administrators in support of the Wellness and mental health goals of the institution
- Participating in the college governance process, including attendance at all department and division meetings, and serving on college-wide committees
- Participating in professional development activities, regional, departmental and college-wide and maintaining current knowledge of counseling techniques and other effective student support intervention strategies
- Maintaining appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics
- 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 bachelor's degree in one of the listed degrees and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) is an alternative qualification for this discipline.)
If you do not possess the EXACT minimum qualifications (i.e., you do not possess the EXACT degree title listed) and believe that you meet the minimum qualifications, fill out the equivalency petition form in the document section of the online application. If you are unsure that you meet the minimum qualifications, please fill out the equivalency petition. The equivalency form can be
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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.
- Experience with non-clinical case management in mental health/wellness counseling
- 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
- Demonstrated experience in providing crisis counseling in an academic or institutional setting
- Demonstrated experience in providing academic and career counseling to community college students
Job Open Date: 11/14/2025
Job Close Date: 1/29/2026
Open Until Filled: No
Employment Begins: 2026 Fall
# of Months: 10
To apply, visit: The Contra Costa Community College District does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, sex, or sexual orientation. This prohibition against unlawful discrimination extends to any person who is perceived to have any of the above characteristics or who is associated with someone who has, or who is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.
Job Tags
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