Job Type
Full-time
Description
- Marriage and family relationships
- Family systems
- Human development
- Relational health
- Family resilience
- Parenting and intergenerational relationships
- Community and cultural influences on families
- Evidence-informed approaches to strengthening marriages and families
- Counseling theory and practice
- Counselor education
- Trauma and healing
- Mental and behavioral health
- Human development
- Helping relationships
- Professional ethics
- Counseling research
- Culturally responsive counseling
- Professional preparation where applicable
- Pastoral counseling
- Pastoral care
- Spiritual care
- Trauma-informed ministry
- Theology of health and healing
- Whole-person care
- Integration of theology, ministry, and behavioral health scholarship
- Establish and communicate a compelling academic vision for the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Develop strategic priorities aligned with WCIU's mission, institutional strategy, and academic standards.
- Position the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU as a respected center for Christian behavioral health education and scholarship.
- Monitor developments in counseling, behavioral health, trauma studies, family systems, pastoral care, and related disciplines.
- Advise the Provost regarding opportunities, risks, professional standards, and resource requirements affecting behavioral health education.
- Establish measurable goals for program quality, faculty development, enrollment, student success, accreditation readiness, and sustainability.
- Foster a culture of compassion, academic rigor, professional responsibility, and continuous improvement throughout the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Provide oversight for all degrees, certificates, and courses assigned to the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Ensure curricula reflect current scholarship, evidence-informed practices, ethical standards, and appropriate theological engagement.
- Lead development and systematic review of graduate and doctoral programs.
- Ensure appropriate integration of research, theory, professional practice, culture, ethics, and Christian worldview.
- Establish measurable student learning outcomes and systematic assessment processes.
- Ensure courses meet appropriate levels of graduate academic rigor.
- Monitor the accuracy of statements concerning professional preparation, certification, accreditation, and licensure.
- Recommend program revision, expansion, consolidation, or discontinuation based on evidence.
- Monitor applicable specialized accreditation standards and professional expectations.
- Assess institutional readiness before recommending pursuit of specialized accreditation.
- Develop appropriate implementation plans when specialized accreditation is authorized by WCIU.
- Ensure faculty qualifications, curricula, supervision, student outcomes, policies, and documentation satisfy applicable requirements.
- Collaborate with the Provost and Compliance regarding professional licensure disclosures.
- Monitor state-specific educational requirements where programs are represented as leading toward regulated professional practice.
- Ensure public representations of programs within the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU are accurate and transparent.
- Establish systems for continuous professional-quality improvement.
- Recruit distinguished scholars and practitioners with appropriate academic and professional credentials.
- Ensure faculty expertise and credentials are appropriate to assigned courses and programs.
- Mentor and evaluate Department Chairs assigned to the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Oversee faculty performance and professional development.
- Support appropriate continuing professional competence.
- Encourage faculty scholarship, publication, research, conference participation, and professional leadership.
- Recruit faculty with expertise in counseling, family systems, trauma, behavioral health, pastoral care, and culturally responsive practice according to program needs.
- Develop emerging academic leaders within the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Address academic, ethical, or professional-performance concerns promptly and appropriately.
- Promote ethical reasoning throughout curricula.
- Ensure students receive appropriate preparation concerning confidentiality, informed consent, professional boundaries, cultural responsiveness, and ethical decision-making.
- Promote trauma-informed educational practices.
- Ensure appropriate mechanisms exist for evaluating student professional dispositions when applicable.
- Promote respect for the dignity, agency, culture, and lived experiences of persons receiving behavioral health services.
- Collaborate with WCIU leadership regarding serious professional-conduct concerns.
- Ensure ethical considerations inform field-based, research, clinical, and applied educational experiences.
- Encourage interdisciplinary scholarship concerning trauma and recovery.
- Promote trauma-informed approaches to teaching and professional preparation.
- Encourage attention to the effects of violence, displacement, poverty, disaster, conflict, family disruption, and other forms of adversity.
- Promote culturally responsive approaches to healing.
- Encourage dialogue among behavioral science, community practice, pastoral care, and Christian theological reflection.
- Ensure trauma-related education within the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU remains evidence-informed and ethically responsible.
- Develop a culture of rigorous behavioral health research.
- Encourage scholarship related to counseling, trauma, family systems, pastoral care, resilience, human development, and community well-being.
- Support faculty publication and scholarly presentations.
- Promote ethical research involving human participants.
- Encourage culturally informed and internationally relevant scholarship.
- Support graduate and doctoral research where applicable.
- Develop opportunities for collaborative and applied research.
- Encourage scholarship that contributes to prevention, healing, resilience, and flourishing.
- Establish relationships with counseling organizations, healthcare organizations, churches, ministries, NGOs, community organizations, universities, and appropriate professional associations.
- Develop partnerships that expand experiential learning, research, and professional engagement.
- Evaluate proposed experiential or clinical partnerships carefully for academic quality and student protection.
- Create opportunities for faculty and students to engage contemporary behavioral health challenges.
- Represent the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU in appropriate academic, professional, ecclesial, and community settings.
- Ensure partnerships align with WCIU policies and applicable professional standards.
- Collaborate with Enrollment to develop recruitment strategies specifically for programs within the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Monitor enrollment, persistence, progression, completion, and student achievement.
- Analyze educational and workforce trends relevant to new program development.
- Ensure enrollment growth remains consistent with faculty, supervision, academic, and other resource capacity.
- Develop appropriate educational pathways for students seeking ministry-oriented or professional behavioral health preparation.
- Support responsible growth without compromising academic or professional quality.
- Establish expectations for academic excellence and professional conduct.
- Monitor student learning and progression.
- Promote mentoring and professional formation.
- Ensure students understand the scope and limitations of credentials for which they are being prepared.
- Ensure appropriate intervention when students demonstrate academic or professional deficiencies.
- Promote culturally responsive preparation for serving diverse populations.
- Develop graduates who demonstrate intellectual competence, ethical judgment, compassion, and professional maturity.
- Develop and manage the annual operating budget for the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- Align faculty staffing with enrollment, course delivery, and program requirements.
- Evaluate costs associated with specialized accreditation, professional training, supervision, technology, and new program development.
- Recommend strategic investments.
- Identify appropriate grant and partnership opportunities.
- Exercise responsible stewardship of WCIU resources.
- Serve as an active member of WCIU's academic leadership team.
- Collaborate with fellow Deans and University leaders.
- Provide expert counsel concerning behavioral health education.
- Contribute to strategic planning and institutional effectiveness.
- Support faculty governance and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Represent the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU internally and externally as requested by the Provost.
- The Dean of the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU is expected to remain engaged with scholarship and professional developments relevant to the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU.
- The Dean may teach within the Dean's area of expertise as assigned by the Provost, taking into consideration administrative responsibilities.
- Where applicable, the Dean is expected to maintain appropriate professional credentials or continuing professional competence.
- Demonstrate a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.
- Support WCIU's Statement of Faith.
- Model Christian character and servant leadership.
- Affirm the dignity and worth of every person.
- Promote compassionate engagement with suffering, trauma, relational brokenness, and human vulnerability.
- Encourage theological reflection concerning healing, reconciliation, hope, relationships, community, and human flourishing.
- Ensure Christian theological commitments are integrated with behavioral science in academically responsible ways.
- Prepare students in the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU to serve diverse populations with humility, wisdom, cultural sensitivity, and professional integrity.
Requirements
- Agreement with WCIU’s Statement of Faith: www.wciu.edu/statement-of-faith
- A demonstrated, vibrant Christian faith compatible with the mission of William Carey International University.
- Earned doctorate from an appropriately accredited institution in counseling, counselor education and supervision, psychology, marriage and family therapy, behavioral health, pastoral counseling, clinical mental health counseling, or a closely related discipline.
- Significant successful higher education teaching experience.
- Progressive academic leadership experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in behavioral health or a closely related discipline.
- Evidence of scholarly or professional achievement.
- Experience with curriculum development and academic assessment.
- Knowledge of ethical and professional standards affecting behavioral health education.
- Demonstrated ability to lead faculty and academic programs.
- Excellent strategic, organizational, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Academic record appropriate for appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor.
- Five or more years of progressively responsible academic leadership experience.
- Previous service as Dean, Associate Dean, Department Chair, Program Director, or equivalent.
- Appropriate professional licensure or certification relevant to the candidate's disciplinary background.
- Experience with CACREP or another applicable specialized accreditor.
- Experience developing graduate behavioral health programs.
- Experience supervising graduate or doctoral research.
- Record of peer-reviewed scholarship.
- Expertise in trauma-informed education, counseling, family systems, or related fields.
- Experience integrating Christian theology and behavioral science.
- Experience with online graduate education.
- International or cross-cultural behavioral health experience.
- Behavioral Health Leadership - Demonstrates advanced understanding of behavioral health education and professional practice environments.
- Ethical Judgment - Exercises careful judgment concerning student preparation, public trust, professional standards, and human well-being.
- Professional Accreditation Leadership - Understands specialized accreditation and develops sustainable systems for academic and professional quality.
- Evidence-Informed Leadership - Promotes curricula, scholarship, and decision-making grounded in credible evidence.
- Trauma-Informed Leadership - Understands how trauma and adversity affect individuals, families, organizations, and communities and promotes appropriate educational responses.
- Compassionate Leadership - Responds to human suffering with dignity, empathy, wisdom, and appropriate professional boundaries.
- Faculty Development - Recruits and develops outstanding scholars, practitioners, and academic leaders.
- Cultural Responsiveness - Ensures programs within the School of Behavioral Health at WCIU prepare students to engage diverse individuals and communities respectfully and effectively.
- Christian Servant Leadership - Integrates Christian faith, scholarship, integrity, humility, and service in academic leadership.
- Work at a desk in an office or home-office setting; Sit at an office desk for extended periods of time.
- Work for extended periods of time at a computer, requiring the ability to send and receive information with necessary optical, auditory, and manual dexterity.
- Use a keyboard and mouse to enter, retrieve or transfer words or data information and/or move from screen to screen on the computer to view information.
- Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; comprehend and speak English.
- Display the reading skills necessary to proofread written material.
- Ability to participate in virtual meetings and University events.
- Occasional travel may be required.
Salary Description
Pay Range: $85,000 - $105,000