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PAU is distinguished by faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized for their contributions to research, teaching, and clinical practice. Through rigorous academic preparation, applied research, and extensive hands-on clinical training, PAU equips students with the knowledge, skills, and professional judgment required for meaningful impact in the behavioral health fields. Together, these elements define PAU’s mission-driven approach to education and its legacy of preparing confident, competent, and compassionate professionals who make a difference in the communities they serve.
Job Title: Faculty - Visiting Professor
Department: Counseling
Location: Remote
Categories: Instruction, Counseling
Annual Basis: 9.5 months workload
Employment Status: Full-time
Summary
The PAU Department of Counseling is seeking two Visiting Assistant Professors to support our CACREP-accredited Master of Arts (MA) in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and our Counselor Education and Supervision (CES) Doctoral program, where candidates can join our faculty in innovative excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service. The selected candidate will be required to demonstrate teaching and professional experiences that contribute to the specialization area, including teaching and supervision experiences in clinical practice courses (practicum and internship) and student mentoring. The selected candidate will also need to demonstrate the ability to enhance the Counselor Education Programs' mission to integrate advocacy, social justice, cultural competence, and ethical practice into the preparation of counseling professionals. This includes demonstrated engagement in professional service and leadership in counseling and community organizations.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Teaching and Advising
- Teach 36 units per year over a 9.5 month academic year; (3 classes per quarter)
- Advise/mentor master's and doctoral students
- Teach virtual synchronous courses and be available for in-person teaching (e.g., teaching two in-person residency experiences each academic year).
Service and Engagement
- Engage in 9 units over a 9.5 month academic year (3 quarters during the academic year) by serving on department and university committees
- Participate in department and university faculty meetings.
- Serve in leadership roles regionally and nationally in recognized counseling profession associations and organizations.
Research and Scholarship
Research/scholarship is not required for this faculty line. It is optional.
4. Faculty are expected to attend university events, such as convocation, commencement, graduation, and other major events.
Required Qualifications:
- Doctoral degree in Counseling Education and Supervision, preferably from a CACREPaccredited program;
- Professional identity as a counselor and a counselor educator, as demonstrated by affiliation with relevant professional counseling associations, including the American Counseling Association and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision;
- License or license eligible as a Mental Health Counselor or Marriage, Family, Child Counselor or related counseling discipline.;
- Demonstrated excellence in teaching in virtual, synchronized, and in-person formats;
- Demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills;
- Demonstrated capacity to engage in scholarly presentations;
- Demonstrated engagement in leadership and/or service in the counseling and/or counselor education profession, such as committee members and chairs;
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with students in-person and connect online through email, video conferencing, and chat;
- Evidence of inclusive excellence and innovation, as well as training and experience with multicultural competence in counseling;
- Demonstrated commitment to facilitating conversations related to culture, power, and oppression and increasing cultural sensitivity in students.
Application Procedures:
PAU is committed to providing an educational environment that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive population. In your cover letter, please include information on how your background and experience have prepared you to thrive in an environment that prioritizes equity, inclusion, and innovation as core to its mission and values.
The expected start date for this position is September 2026. Interested candidates should submit:
- A letter of interest
- Curriculum Vitae
- One-page statement of teaching philosophy
- One-page statement of equity, diversity, and inclusion
- A one-page list of 3-5 references with contact information
- One to three page summary of teaching evaluations and TA, student, and/or peer comments/observations of teaching. Tables of teaching evaluation scores can be provided.
The position is open until filled. All applications received by March 18, 2026 will receive full consideration. Please direct questions to:
Dr. Tameeka Hunter (she/her), Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CRC
Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor Search Committee Chair THunter@paloaltoU.edu
No Discrimination: The University is an equal opportunity employer and is firmly committed to non-discrimination in its hiring and other employment practices and in the application of its personnel policies. In compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, except where a bona fide occupational qualification exists, employment decisions will be made irrespective of the staff member's backgrounds of race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age (except for minors), sex, marital status, citizenship status, military service status, sexual orientation, medical condition (cancer-related or genetic condition), disability and/or any another status protected by law.
As provided by law, and when it is requested to do so, the University will offer reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, if the individual is otherwise qualified to safely and to the University's standards of quality of work, perform all essential functions of the position and if it will be done without undue hardship to the University.
PAU has a high-quality work environment that attracts and welcomes a diversity of backgrounds of its employees. In your application or in a cover letter, please include information on how your background and experience has prepared you to work at a high level of quality of work with co-workers from a variety of different backgrounds.
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