**Title: Professional Counselor I**

**Agency:** Texas A&M International University
**Department:** Student Counseling Services
**Proposed Minimum Salary:** $4,009.20 monthly
**Job Location:** Laredo, Texas
**Job Type:** Staff

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### Job Description

**Job Summary:**
The Professional Counselor I, under general supervision, provides academic and career choice counseling to individuals and groups.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
– Provide personal counseling and crisis intervention to individuals, couples, and groups.
– Engage in counseling-related activities, including maintaining counseling records, administering and interpreting psychological tests/inventories, making referrals, and managing various organizational and administrative aspects of counseling cases.
– Serve as an expert consultation resource.
– Respond to requests for information about counseling services, programs, and organizational structure and policies.
– Provide presentations for students, faculty members, and staff members regarding counseling services, programs, professional development topics, and issues.
– Assist with organizational and administrative tasks as requested.
– Provide academic and career choice counseling to individuals and groups.
– Consult with students, faculty members, and staff members about students who are in need of academic and career choice counseling.
– Engage in applied research and evaluation activities.
– Publish and/or disseminate the results of research and evaluation efforts.

*This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. Other duties may be assigned.*

**Additional Responsibilities:**
– Serve as a liaison with other offices.
– Serve on committees.
– Schedule, prepare, provide, and report on joint and independent mental health and wellness related outreach on campus, as needed and approved (e.g., student messaging, design/delivery strategies on posters, bulletins, workshops, information tables, class presentations, and speaking assignments).
– Perform other related duties as assigned.

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### Minimum Requirements

**Education:**
– Master’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university in Counseling and Guidance, Social Work, Counseling, Clinical Psychology, or other specialty related to job function.

**Experience:**
– Practical/field placement relevant to college counseling or supervised experience related to job function.

**Preferred Education and Experience:**
– Licensure for independent practice in the State of Texas (LPC, LCDC).
– Counseling and outreach experience in a university setting.
– Experience in veterans counseling and/or drug/alcohol counseling.

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### Knowledge and Abilities

**Knowledge of:**
– Word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.

**Ability to:**
– Multitask and work cooperatively with others.

**Preferred Knowledge and Abilities:**
– Possess time-management, planning, and organization skills.
– Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
– Interact effectively and professionally with the University community, general public, and the students served.
– Work independently and follow through on all tasks.
– Maintain confidentiality.
– Be familiar with campus-related issues (e.g., adults, women, men, Hispanic populations, adjustment).

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### Licensing / Professional Certification

– Eligible for Texas Licensed Professional Counselor – Intern (LPC-1) or Texas Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Must maintain licensure for continued employment and obtain licensure within 3 years of hire.

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### Physical Requirements

– General Office Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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### Supervision of Others

– This position generally does not supervise employees.

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### Other Requirements

– Work beyond normal office hours and/or on weekends.
– Requires working evening and/or weekend hours and rotating on-call responsibilities, as necessary.
– Travel may be required.
– Position requires on-campus, face-to-face interactions.
– Position requires maintaining a regular schedule of attendance on campus and in the workplace.

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**Salary:** $19.06 hourly

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### Application Instructions

During the application process, you have only one opportunity to enter the requested information, upload documents and submit the application. Changes or additions cannot be made after submission. The page “My Experience” has an area provided under Resume/CV to drop or upload files. Be sure to include:
– Resume/CV
– Cover Letter
– 3 professional references with full contact information
– Unofficial transcripts

Applications received by Texas A&M International University must have all job application data entered. Failure to provide all job application data could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. “See resume” is not an acceptable entry in the job application.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

**Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer.**

To apply, visit https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMIU_External/job/Laredo-TX/Professional-Counselor-I_R-077162
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