Assistant Clinical Professor-1

About the role

The Department of Counseling in the College of Education invites applications for one full-time Assistant Clinical Professor position in the CACREP-accredited On-ground Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) Program at Seattle University. We seek a justice-centered counselor educator who is committed to advancing issues of diversity, anti-racism, equity, and inclusion within the mental health counseling profession beginning September 1, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Provide justice-centered teaching and service to the program, the College, the university, and to the counseling profession at the national level.
• Opportunities for scholarship that advance issues of equity in community mental health.
• Teach graduate level counseling courses on the Seattle University campus across the eight CACREP core areas in clinical mental health and school counseling and provide support to the program through advising.
• Join a social justice-oriented counseling program informed by Seattle University's commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Contribute to the University's and College of Education's Jesuit mission, vision, and values.
• Support diverse students.
• Teach both school counseling and clinical mental health counseling courses.
• Engage in minoritized communities and integrate this experience into program development and teaching.

Requirements

• Earned doctorate in Counselor Education from a CACREP-accredited program by August 15, 2026.
• Licensed Mental Health Counselor experience.
• Fully professional licensed mental health counseling in state of residence at time of application or apply for full licensure/certification within one year of hire.
• Familiarity with CACREP accreditation standards and processes.
• Experience and competence in teaching and clinical supervision of counseling graduate students.
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and anti-racism as evidenced by curriculum development, scholarly agenda, and/or community engagement and collaboration.
• Commitment to collaborative professional relationships with faculty colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion and theory-to-practice research in teaching, scholarship, and service.

Qualifications

• Preferred qualifications include:
• Demonstrated ability to support diverse students.
• Full professional licensed mental health counseling in state of residence at time of application or apply for full licensure within one year of hire.
• Experience and competence in teaching and clinical supervision of clinical mental health counseling graduate students.
• Sustained engagement with minoritized communities that are underrepresented in counseling and mental health care, and demonstrated ability to integrate this experience into program development and teaching.
• Candidates with historically marginalized identities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Pay

$0.00 - $0.00

Seattle University has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, and not based on a candidate's gender or any other protected status.

Schedule

Full-Time