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Job Description:

The University of Northern Iowa's Department of Family, Aging and Counseling seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Counseling position, starting in August 2025. The primary responsibilities include teaching, research, and service. This position serves graduate students in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling and is expected to participate in curriculum development, CACREP accreditation process, counseling supervision, scholarly research, faculty shared governance. The selected candidate must have a strong professional counseling identity demonstrated by clinical experience and active licensure/credentialing as a counselor. Summer teaching opportunities may also be available.

Required Qualifications:

Earned PhD in Counselor Education/Counseling from a CACREP-accredited program by the time of appointment in Fall of 2025 (ABD may be considered if close to completion); post-graduate professional clinical and/or school counseling experience; professional counseling license and/or certification, or license eligible in Iowa and willing to gain license; evidence of strong potential for excellence in college teaching and experience/or interest in teaching graduate-level CACREP core courses; professional counseling identity, including membership in professional counseling associations at the state, regional, and/or national levels (e.g., ACA, AMHCA, ASCA, ACES); evidence of scholarship or potential for scholarship (as evidenced by publications, presentations, grants, and current research agenda); ability to teach in person on campus; and ability to function and communicate successfully and respectfully within the context of varying beliefs, behaviors, orientations, identities, and cultural backgrounds required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Interest and experience in counseling children, adolescents, college students, couples, families, and/or older adults; advanced credentialing in areas of counseling expertise/interest (e.g., couples counseling modalities, play therapy, expressive arts, sex therapy, gerontological counseling, addictions, etc.); experience providing clinical supervision to professional counselors or counselors-in-training; experience with clinical coordination, arranging practicum and internship placements, or willingness to learn and contribute to clinical coordination; knowledgeable of, and experience with, CACREP-accreditation processes; experience with program assessment and review associated CACREP standards, or willingness to learn and contribute to program assessment; demonstrated competence in college teaching with experience in-person and in online teaching environments; and experience using a variety of experiential teaching techniques and ability to engage students in the learning process preferred.

For more information, please contact William Henninger, Search Committee Chair, at 319-273-6383 or e-mail at william.henninger@uni.edu. Pre-employment background checks required.

Position Details:

Job Category: Faculty

Type of Position: Tenure Track

Service Schedule: Academic Year

Application Instructions:

Curriculum Vita and cover letter required when applying.

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