Win With a Career Move to Western.

At Western Wyoming Community College, one of America’s leading junior colleges, we believe employees are our most valuable resource. We pride ourselves on our inclusive, growth-focused culture and our exceptional benefits package. For full-time employees, here are a few of the amazing benefits we offer:

- Employer paid contribution of 18.62% to your retirement plan with no waiting period. Who doesn’t love free money?

- A $3,000 institutional stipend is provided to you annually to assist in offsetting your portion of costs related to health, dental and life insurance. (We cover 82% of these costs for you in addition to the stipend!)

- Generous leave time to support your work/life balance with paid holidays, sick leave and vacation time, 3 personal days, and two weeks off over Christmas break! Not to mention, you get time off at Spring Break and Friday’s off in the summer.

- Have you ever wanted to take an art class? Interested in exploring entrepreneurship? FREE tuition for you, your spouse, and your dependents makes this dream a reality.

- Access to amenities like our Children’s Center, Hay Library, aquatic center, fitness center, theatre and more.

- When adventure calls, head out to the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, take a hike around Mustang Loop, ride the local sand dunes, or jump in the car and travel to Salt Lake City, Jackson Hole, or Laramie. For a map of our area, and links to activities and places, view westernwyoming.edu/outsider.

See where your career can take you when you come run with the Mustangs!

Primary Duties

1. Provides leadership and management of counseling, disability, and prevention services including policy and program development, implementation, services, and programming. 

2. Supervises and controls all budgetary matters as they relate to the Office of Wellbeing & Accessibility prepares annual and biennial budget requests, approves all purchase orders and otherwise monitors department budget expenditures and limits expenditures to budgeted levels.

3. Supervises and staffs the Office of Wellbeing & Accessibility. Performs all normal supervisory functions including identification of office objectives, direction setting, and provision of feedback including the timely completion of performance evaluations.

4. Provides direct services in personal counseling, group counseling, and ADA services, to students, at approximately 10 hours per week, and maintains mental health licensure status in Wyoming

5. Manages in-person and online counseling services for students. Remains knowledgeable about best practices and laws regarding counseling and mental health services. Responsible for providing counseling supervision in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Wyoming Mental Health Professions Licensing Board to any provisionally licensed counselor, including interns.

6. Provides crisis counseling and intervention as necessary. Coordinates and/or responds to crisis calls from students, college personnel, or the contracted crisis service, at any hour.

7. Prepares, presents, and assists in providing presentations, special programs, events, workshops and seminars to the campus community. Identifies the need for additional services or programs for Western students and makes arrangements for an annual programming schedule.

8. Provides outreach programming on behalf of the Office of Wellbeing & Accessibility to the college. Oversees the drug, alcohol, and prevention programming for the college. Remains knowledgeable on trends in student development and supporting the “whole” student.

9. Responsible for serving as the chair of the drug and alcohol prevention committee on campus.

10. Oversees the student ADA Program. Remains knowledgeable about laws related to the service of students with disabilities. Serves as a contact for students with disabilities; refers students to other college programs for services as appropriate.

11. Serves as a permanent member of Western’s Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT).

12. Serves as Western’s Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Students.

13. Participates in and supports all student success service functions as appropriate.

14. Represents the college within the local, regional, and state mental health community.

15. Responsible for program review, data collection, and documentation utilizing data as appropriate. Maintains data regarding Wellbeing & Accessibility services including numbers served and types of contacts.

1. Graduation from CACREP, CSWE, or CORE accredited program with a Master’s degree in counseling, or other related field that is licensable in Wyoming as a Licensed Professional Counselor or Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

4. Five years of previous position-specific or position related work experience.

5. Three years of experience in supervision and managing a department.

2. Demonstrates effective therapeutic/counseling skills.

3. Sound knowledge of counseling theory and general principles and practices in counseling.

1. Earned Ph.D. or Ed.D. in Counseling/Mental Health Counseling.

2. Experience counseling in a higher education setting.

3. Excellent organizational, verbal and supervisory skills.

The starting salary for this position is $67,325.

Unofficial transcripts are accepted for application purposes. Official transcripts are required as a condition of employment.