ASC Counselor (PT)

Salary: $57.74 - $91.74 Hourly
Location : Fairfield, CA
Job Type: Adjunct Faculty
Job Number: ADJ-ASC COUN-25
Department: School of Counseling & Accessibility Service Center
Opening Date: 10/16/2025
Closing Date: 6/30/2026 11:59 PM Pacific


Description
Solano Community College is seeking a pool of qualified applicants for possible part-time counseling assignments within the Accessibility Service Center. These positions are filled on an as needed basis and are on-going recruitment. Counseling assignments may include day, evening and weekend hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide academic, career, and disability adjustment counseling services, and/or teach Counseling division courses. Conduct scheduled and drop-in individual/group counseling sessions as assigned; maintain informational reports as required by the Dean of Counseling; conduct on-campus and off-campus counseling assignments; assist with student outreach/in-reach presentations on a variety of topics; assist with orientation and recruitment programming; maintain current knowledge of academic and career counseling techniques and information; attend required trainings and professional development; make appropriate student referrals to campus and public service agencies as necessary; serve as liaison person with assigned academic divisions, departments, or special areas; utilize variety of computer software systems for career and academic counseling/teaching; and perform special duties as assigned.
• Provide instruction in accordance with established course outlines and requirements; inform students about course requirements; prepare and grade assignments and examinations; meet administrative timelines and submit completed and required documents and reports; and maintain required student attendance and scholastic records. Teaching schedule may include evening or weekend hours as part of contract assignment.
• Conduct intake with students with disabilities who are applying for services, utilizing information such as medical/academic records, to determine eligibility for services. Certify eligibility of students tested in the center and those with appropriate outside documentation.
• Provide academic accommodation plans through interactive process.
• Assists students and faculty/staff in making appropriate academic adjustments to for classroom accommodations.
• Prepare and maintain records (scholastic, attendance, and personnel as necessary) for each student according to applicable reporting requirements, relay pertinent information to college personnel as needed within the confidentiality of such personal information and records as required by law.
• Maintain assessment data and confidential student files in order to certify students 'accommodations based on verified disabilities.
• Establishes and maintains confidential records including referral information, assessments, and progress reports; and completes required State and Federal reports.
• Promote awareness of services for students with disabilities throughout the campus community (students, faculty, staff, administration), and community partners.

Minimum Qualifications
Master's degree in rehabilitation counseling OR Master's degree in counseling, guidance counseling, student personnel, clinical or counseling psychology, education counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy, marriage, family and child counseling, or a Bachelor's degree in marriage and family therapy or in marriage, family and child counseling and possession of a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT); and either 15 or more semester units in upper division or graduate level course work related to people with disabilities, or completion of six semester units, or the equivalent of a graduate-level counseling practicum or counseling field work courses, in a post-secondary Disabled Students Programs and Services program or in a program dealing with people with disabilities, or two years of full-time experience, or the equivalent, in one or more of the following:

• (A) Counseling for students with disabilities; or
• (B) Counseling in industry, government, public agencies, military or private social welfare organizations in which he responsibilities are for persons with disabilities, or the equivalent. Per CCR 53414

If you do not possess the minimum qualifications exactly as stated above, you must file for an equivalency review and submit conclusive supporting documents at the time of application. Equivalency is defined as possessing the general education for the degree and the major coursework for the degree.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• The ability to understand the implications of behavior elicited by a specific disability.
• Provide guidance to students with disabilities in decision-making processes and their exploration of alternatives with regard to educational, career and personal goals
• Knowledge of other disabilities including acquired brain injuries, psychological and developmental disabilities, including Autism.
• Outreach with service area high schools and community groups
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of non-visible disabilities and the psychological aspects of adults with Learning Disabilities.
• Ability to use a variety of counseling techniques and strategies to provide academic, career, disability adjustment counseling/presentations/instruction.
• Determine educational limitations and reasonable academic accommodations for students with disabilities.
• Knowledge of current academic and career information to assist students accomplish academic goals.
• Ability to meet administrative deadlines for counseling/teaching responsibilities.
• Ability to learn and use computer software and access websites for counseling/presentations/instruction.
• A commitment to encouragement of learning and an enthusiastic attitude towards counseling and teaching students; sensitivity to counsel and teach students from diverse cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds who may have wide ranges of abilities.

Adjunct faculty may purchase health and welfare benefits, at their expense, to the extent permitted by the District's health and welfare benefits carrier and/or broker.

Eligibility:

Taught at Solano Community College for at least two semesters (excludes summer session); must be scheduled for a minimum of 40% assignment at the time of enrollment in the health plan; enrollment periods to be determined each semester; once enrolled mandatory participation will be required (participation period to be determined); premiums will be made through payroll deduction and additional premiums due on a monthly basis by check to the Business Office no later than the 10th of each month for the succeeding month's benefits; and other procedures for implementation as determined by the District in consultation with the Association.