Counselor/Instructor, EOPS/NextUp/CARE/CalWORKs (Tenure-Track)
Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Napa Valley College is seeking an individual with demonstrated instructional skills to join an outstanding team of faculty, staff, and administrators to provide high quality programs and services to our district, our community, and most importantly, our students.
The Napa Valley College Board of Trustees has established the goal of leading from a framework that advances diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and accessibility. Consistent with that goal, the Napa Valley College mission, vision, and values are being revised to reflect a focus on equity and a student-centered mission. The ideal candidate for this position centers on equity and social justice as core components of our mission, vision, and values. For more information about Napa Valley College, please click here. For information about our new housing complex for students AND employees, please click here.
This full-time, tenure-track faculty position works a 175-day faculty work year, in accordance with the district/faculty agreement, beginning August 2025 (fall semester). Appointments are contingent upon Board approval. Initial salary placement is $65,071 - $84,644 annually, with future steps to $119,657. Placement on the salary range is commensurate with education and experience. The college offers a fringe benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, employee assistance program, and CalSTRS membership.
About Napa Valley College
Established in 1942, Napa Valley College (NVC) is one of 116 public community colleges in the California Community College system. NVC serves a diverse community of students by providing a wide range of high-quality educational programs and comprehensive student services, to help students succeed in the education, progress in the workplace, and engage in the civic and cultural life of the community. The College also stimulates the development and growth of the region through its educational, economic, and workforce opportunities, community partnerships and services.NVC is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for community and junior colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. NVC is also designated by the U.S. Department of Education as Hispanic-Serving Institution as it has an enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students that is more than 25 percent.
For more information about NVC, click here. For information about our new campus housing for students AND employees, click here.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the direction of the Dean of Enrollment Services:
- Provide personal, academic and career counseling to EOPS, CARE, NextUp and CalWORKs students.
- Develop educational plans for EOPS, CARE, NextUp and CalWORKs students.
- Participate in appropriate counseling and faculty/staff meetings and college-wide student retention and success efforts.
- Act as a bridge between students and available on and off-campus resources to support educational retention and success.
- Assist in the outreach, recruitment and orientation of new EOPS, CARE, NextUp and CalWORKs students.
- Participate in special program activities to support foster youth’s academic and personal growth. This includes collaboration with local agencies and community partners to enrich the support network available to students.
- Develop and implement targeted strategies to improve foster youth’s retention rates and academic achievements, addressing educational and non-academic barriers to success.
- Serve as a strong advocate for foster youth across the campus community, striving to raise awareness of their needs and challenges.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Assignment may include a combination of day, evening, weekend, off-campus classes, and online or other technology-supported instruction. All contract and regular faculty are required to adhere to contractual obligations, meet assigned classes, maintain regular office hours, assist and advise students, participate in division activities and appropriate college committees, including regular faculty meetings of the department, division and College. Napa Valley College believes in ongoing professional development that assists faculty in improving their teaching skills, providing support to students, and encouraging responsibility within the college community.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Master’s degree in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work or career development, or the equivalent,
AND
1. Have completed a minimum of nine semester units of college course work predominantly relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages
OR
2. Have completed six semester units or the equivalent of a college-level counseling practicum or counseling field-work courses in a community college EOPS program, or in a program dealing predominantly with ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages
AND
Two years of occupational experience in work relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages
All degrees must be from an accredited institution.
Experience:
- At least one year of full-time (or two years part-time) experience counseling and/or teaching at a community college or equivalent level
- Demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and race/ethnic background of community college students
Title 8, USC, Section 1324-A requires verification of eligibility for employment in the United States.
Desirable Professional Competencies:
- One year of community college counseling experience working with EOPS or foster youth programs.
- Demonstrated use of trauma-informed counseling practices.
- Demonstrated experience conducting in-reach, outreach, and recruitment of diverse student populations in an educational setting.
- Demonstrated knowledge and competency of community college counseling with specific knowledge in areas such as transfer and articulation, probation, career and technical education, STEM, and other unique areas of counseling.
- Demonstrated success in assisting students from historically underrepresented and/or marginalized groups, nontraditional students, former/current foster youth, system impacted students, speakers of other languages, and students with disabilities.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
A. Applicants must complete the online application through SchoolJobs.com. All elements of the application, including supplemental questions, must be submitted for the application to be considered complete.
Internal applicants are still required to submit a complete application for this position. This includes submission of transcripts and all other required application materials.
B. Applicants must attach the following to complete the application process:
1. A letter of interest, not to exceed two pages, that addresses how you meet the minimum and desirable professional competencies for the position as outlined in this announcement
2. Current comprehensive resume
3. A separate list of teaching assignments over the past five years that includes Course Number, Course Title, Institution, and Year/Semester Taught
4. Legible copies of transcripts verifying college work, degrees, and conferral dates
NOTE: Unofficial copies of transcripts accepted at time of application, however, official transcripts will be required upon offer of employment. Please remove SSN or DOB if visible on transcripts.
Foreign Transcripts: Napa Valley College requires that individuals who have completed college or university course work at an institution in a country other than the United States must obtain a complete evaluation of foreign transcripts, degrees and other relevant documents. A foreign transcript evaluation is required any time foreign course work is used to meet minimum qualifications and/or salary placement, even if the foreign transcript has previously been accepted by a different college or university in the United States. Foreign transcripts must be evaluated by one of the organizations approved by the State of California, Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Please click here for a list of approved organizations.
5. OPTIONAL: Request for Equivalency Review form, (Download PDF reader) if applicable (ONLY for applicants who do not possess the stated minimum educational qualifications and are seeking consideration on the basis of equivalency).
It is important that your application reflect all of your relevant education and experience. Please note that applications will be rejected if no work experience is listed, or if other required application fields are missing or incomplete. Transcripts are the only attachments allowed so we may verify that the minimum education qualification has been met.
All required application materials must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the filing deadline. Please do not submit material not requested. Application materials submitted become the property of Napa Valley College and the Office of Human Resources, Training & Development cannot copy, return, or transfer material to other positions. Any expenses incurred in connection with the initial interview will be the responsibility of the candidate. The college will reimburse certain travel expenses associated with second interviews (if applicable), depending on distance of travel.
The District will not accept materials by e-mail, fax, or mail for this position.
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS: If you are in need of special services or facilities due to a disability in order to apply or interview for this opening, please contact the Office of Human Resources, Training & Development.
Napa Valley College, an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, maintains a drug-free workplace and requires that employees abide by that policy.
For more information, contact the Office of Human Resources, Training & Development:
2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway
Napa, CA 94558
(707) 256-7100
jobline@napavalley.edu
For technical support, contact NEOGOV at (855) 524-5627.
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