Field Placement Coordinator - Northwest Arkansas (NWA)
Part-time Position - Posted 4/11/2024
Position Summary
The Field Placement Coordinator - NWA is a part-time administrative staff position whose primary function is providing strategic management and oversight of the Department of Graduate Counseling’s field placement process for students enrolled in Practicum/Internship courses in keeping with the University’s mission and Christian distinctive. This position serves as the primary liaison between the Department of Graduate Counseling (DGC) and professional counseling agencies and internship sites across the Northwest Arkansas (NWA), Northeast Oklahoma, and Southeast Missouri regions. This position reports directly to the DGC’s Executive Clinical Director. The primary office for this position is at the JBU Main campus in Siloam Springs, AR. Travel throughout the region is required.
Role Qualifications
- An organized, timely, dependable, and hard-working individual who can balance administrative tasks with personal/relational interaction.
- Must possess an internal drive to achieve departmental benchmarks related to the position, while positively influencing peers, students, and external constituents/site supervisors.
- Must be a team player with a servant attitude who is committed to excellence and ongoing personal growth (professionally and spiritually).
- Must commit to the Articles of Faith, Mission and Objectives of John Brown University while being a role model for others by actively demonstrating a Christian faith in both personal and professional contexts.
Position Responsibilities
- Manage, coordinate, and approve Practicum/Internship site placement for NWA counseling students.
- Develop and maintain positive referral, marketing, networking, and site relationships while expanding the region's database of diverse site placements.
- Assist with Practicum/Internship orientations for NWA students, sites, and site supervisors.
- Maintain consistent and direct communication with sites and site supervisors, including conducting regular site and supervisor visits. Travel throughout the region is required.
- Manage site and affiliation agreements/contracts with sites/agencies/supervisors.
- Manage placement records, record-keeping, and informational technology, including site/student data, activity logs, evaluations, and contracts.
- Collaborate with the DGC faculty and staff to best serve student and program needs.
- Manage and supervise assigned Graduate Assistants, work-study student, and clinical staff in duties related to internship placement.
- Other duties and travel as assigned.
The Field Placement Coordinator can perform fee-for-service counseling-related activities in the Community Counseling Clinic - NWA at no cost/rent under the direction of the CCC Clinic Director.
Weekly Time Allocation:
- Approximately 15 hours - Administrative Duties
- Approximately 10-13 hours - Travel & Site/Community Relations
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience working with people or within the service/sales industry.
- Strong administration skills, including planning, organizing, assessing, and revising systems, processes, and procedures
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Effective team leadership skills
- Ability to use various clinic/office technologies
- Ability to navigate academic learning management systems
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective peer collaboration skills
- Ability to effectively connect with and maintain positive working relationships with external constituents
- Proven ability to teach and train others effectively
- Ability to deliver successful presentations to diverse groups
Preferred skills and experience
- Three years or more years of clinical or administrative experience working in human services, counseling, or social work settings/agencies.
- Marketing, networking, and community relations skills are beneficial.
- Leadership experience is preferred.
Education
Minimum of Bachelor's Degree
Physical demands and work environment
- Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk; stand; sit; use hands; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
The employee is expected to adhere to all University policies.
Diversity
JBU desires to increase the diversity of its faculty, staff, and students to honor how all humans are created in the image of God, to reflect better the diversity of the Kingdom of God, to further our Christian commitment to justice, and to increase the quality of our educational experience. JBU is pursuing the goal of teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from ethnic minorities and women. For more information, visit our diversity webpage.
About JBU
Information describing the university is available online.
Apply
To apply, please upload the following documents to the "Upload Your Documents" page:
- Cover Letter
- Your resume
- Staff Application (completed and signed)
Only complete materials will be reviewed. Applicants selected for an interview will be contacted by the university.
Contact information:
Office of Human Resources
John Brown University
2000 West University Street
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
Phone: 479.524.7197
e-mail: jobs@jbu.edu
