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The Counselor/Coordinator Health and Wellness for Northwestern Qatar (NU-Q) is a licensed mental health professional providing
evaluation, crisis intervention, case management, brief psychotherapy, and consultation to the community. The Counselor/Coordinator provides
educational health and wellness programming and makes referrals to off-campus health and wellness providers as necessary. The counselor
facilitates and manages the campus disability services program, and liaise with Northwestern University AccessibleNU as necessary, collects
and evaluates student immunization records, and provides professional consultation(s) during student medical leave of absence
requests/reinstatement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Services

• Provide culturally grounded psychotherapy to individuals and groups, engages in counseling-related activities, including, but not limited
  to:
• Maintaining counseling records, case management, and initial assessment.
• Providing crisis intervention, if
  necessary.
• Administering and interpreting psychological tests/inventories.
• Making referrals; and managing various
  organizational and administrative aspects of counseling case.
• Consults with parents, faculty, staff members (NU-Q and Education
  City), academic deans, off-campus physicians/therapist, when appropriate and with necessary authorizations to provide quality care to
  students.
• Assumes after-hours on-call responsibilities.
• Makes referrals to off-campus clinical services when
  appropriate.

Community Outreach and Education Programming

• Design, manage, conduct and evaluate
  promotion and educational programs to promote mental and physical health awareness and overall student well-being.
• Represent NU-Q
  Counseling and Wellness on- and off-campus, as necessary.
• Collaborate with Education City institutions on wellness-related
  initiatives.

Accessibility and Accommodation Services

• In collaboration with Northwestern University
  AccessibleNU office, serves as a focal point for NUQ students applying to accommodation support and services.
• Liaise with
  administration, faculty, and staff to ensure accessibility industry best-practices, State of Qatar and federal regulations are met.

Other Duties

• Collect, and manage required student immunization records.
• Manage, assess, and
  develop Counseling and Wellness services and systems in alignment with Northwestern University- Counseling and Psychological Services
  (CAPS)

Minimum Qualifications (education, experience, certifications, skills)

• Master’s degree
  in psychology, counseling, social work, or a related field.
• Five to eight years post-master's experience in a university
  counseling center or similar environment.
• Licensed for independent practice in psychology, counseling, social work or related
  field in the United States, State of Qatar, and/or related licensing body.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to work as part of
  a highly cohesive and interdisciplinary team.
• Experience in the provision of crisis intervention and consultation.
• Demonstrated understanding of ethical and legal issues in mental health practice.
• Applied experience in the area of health
  education, disability services and mental health counseling.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to working with and ensuring the welfare of students from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Excellent
  organizational skills.
• Creative approach to the assessment and development of programs addressing the needs of students.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to working with and ensuring the welfare of
  students from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Creative approach to the assessment
  and development of programs addressing the needs of students.

Preferred Qualifications (Education, Experience,
Certifications, Skills)

• Six to ten years of post-education experience
• Doctoral level degree (Ph.D. or
  Psy.D.) in clinical or counseling psychology from a U.S., State of Qatar, and/or equivalent accredited institution.
• Experience
  working with students from the GCC, MENA, and/or Global South.
• Experience and/or certification in clinical therapy for anxiety
  and depression diagnosis.
• Arabic language proficiency
• Ability to work with a highly diverse population.
• Thorough knowledge of clinical applications for contemporary issues in psychology and student affairs, especially as related to individual
  and cultural diversity.