at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 49879
Department: Counseling & Psych Serv
Salary/Grade: EXS/11
Job Summary:
Full-time Associate Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (Ph.D. or Psy.D.) position.
Under the direction of the Executive Director of CAPS, the Associate Director of CAPS ensures efficient and high-quality delivery, data collection and evaluation of a specific functional area of the department.
The Associate Director of CAPS provides direct clinical services including initial assessment, individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, case management, referral, clinical training, and psychoeducational programming to the Northwestern community. This position requires some evening hours and occasional weekend duties.
The Associate Director of Training is responsible for the development and implementation of CAPS training programs, with primary emphasis on the American Psychological Association (APA) accredited doctoral internship. The Associate Director ensures efficient and high-quality delivery, data collection and evaluation of training services, and coordination of the training programs in accordance with guidelines and accreditation standards of the APA and in alignment with departmental and institutional values and priorities. The Associate Director provides administrative supervision to CAPS’ three doctoral interns and may provide clinical supervision to one or more of them as well. The Associate Director provides administrative consultation and support to CAPS staff involved in the provision of training services (e.g., clinical supervision, didactic seminars, etc.) including to CAPS’ Sport Psychology team who directly administers a Sport Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship program.
The Associate Director of Training is a key member of the CAPS leadership team who leads the department’s training committee and participates on a variety of other internal and inter-departmental committees/working groups as assigned. This position may also be called upon to serve as administrator in charge in the absence of the Executive Director and other members of the leadership team.
This position requires some evening hours and occasional weekend duties. After-hours duties typically include 1-2 weeks of on-call duties (as back up to the primary on-call counselor) per quarter. The Associate Director will also generally provide 2-3 evening or weekend community-based intervention events per quarter.
Pay: The expected salary range for this position is $108,000 to $115,000 with additional consideration for candidates with substantial previous experience and/or expertise.
Department Overview:
CAPS is a unit within the Division of Student Affairs at NU and is highly utilized by students and other campus community members seeking consultation. CAPS has offices on both the Evanston and Chicago campuses. NU has a total student population of approximately 21,000 students across both campuses, with approximately 18,500 of these students attending classes in the Evanston campus. The Chicago office serves primarily graduate and professional students while Evanston office serves both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to our clinical services, CAPS reaches over 10,000 NU community members through outreach and educational programming on both campuses. CAPS also has a training program, including an APA-accredited Doctoral Internship in Psychology at our Evanston office and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Sport Psychology. CAPS is a learning organization, in that our strategic planning, priority setting, clinical services, and professional dev
