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Department Head – Clinical Psychology
Chronicle of Higher Ed 3x 30p
APA Monitor 3x 5.125
Provost, the Head of the Clinical Psychology Department
will be responsible for the following:
( 1) Recommending the employment of personnel; solicit-
ing/maintaining an up-to-date pool of potential adjunct
faculty; facilitating the transition of new faculty into the
department; evaluating the departmental faculty and staff;
and ensuring the systematic professional development and
performance improvement of departmental personnel;
( 2) Proposing, monitoring, and – when necessary – making
adjustment recommendations regarding the department’s
budget;
( 3) Ensuring an environment that – while student
centered – demands the maintenance of the highest
rigorous academic and professional standards;
( 4) Promulgating an organizational culture that maintains
an appropriate balance between professional/clinical
expertise and scholarly productivity among the program
faculty, including leadership of the faculty group to a state
of increased scholarly output;
( 5) Contributing to the overall growth and improvement of the
school by maintaining an institution-wide perspective, by
serving on the Academic Leadership Group and a variety
of other task forces and committees, by representing the
School to the general public, and by helping to envision
and facilitate positive organizational change.
Although it will be limited by the administrative demands of
this position, some teaching will be required.
Qualifications: The successful candidate will: ( 1) Present
professional and scholarly credentials suitable for a senior
academic administrative leadership position in a professional
graduate school, including an established record of respected
scholarship/research yielding an appropriate array of publications in respected venues; ( 2) Hold an earned doctorate and
credentials as a licensed clinical psychologist; ( 3) Validate
prior successful professional experience in both clinical and
academic-instructional settings; ( 4) Be knowledgeable and
appreciative of (a) the scholar-practitioner model of
psychologist preparation, and (b) professional education that
is intrinsically linked with early, extended, and systematic
field education; and ( 4) Demonstrate possession of personal
integrity, energy, enthusiasm for program building, willingness
to undertake demanding and difficult jobs, excellent written
and oral communication skills, good judgment and problem
solving capabilities, team building and team work skills,
organizational skills, a sense of humor, and an uncompromised commitment to the highest qualitative standards in
graduate professional education.
Application Procedure: Review of applications will begin
August 1, 2012. Interested candidates should submit ( 1)
a detailed letter of application responding to the stated
qualifications and describing how the candidate’s experiences
are related to any/all of the stated job responsibilities, ( 2) a
curriculum vitae, and ( 3) a list of at least four professional
references with complete contact information. (References
will not be contacted without the candidate’s prior
permission.) Materials should be submitted electronically to:
Ms. Ellen Collins, Human Resources Manager
Email: ELLEN_COLLINS@MSPP.EDU.
Important Notice to All Candidates: MSPP is cognizant of
and has a commitment to fulfill its legal mandate as an equal
employment opportunity institution. Further, the School values
the educational benefits which devolve to students when the
faculty/staff is broadly representative of our diverse American
society. Therefore, MSPP especially welcomes applications
from candidates whose background may contribute to the
further diversification of our community, including – but not
limited to – characteristics of age, citizenship, color, creed,
disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identification, marital
status, military or veteran status, national origin, race,
religion, or sexual orientation. Candidates who possess
personal characteristics that might be considered as
diversifying elements are invited to identify themselves
during the application process.
www.mspp.edu
The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
announces its search for a Head of the Clinical Psychology
Department. Following a decade of exceptional service during
which the doctoral program in clinical psychology has grown
in size and increased in stature, the current department
administrator will retire in June 2013. In order to facilitate an
orderly transition, the School hopes to have a new department
head and program director named well prior to the departure
of the current administrator; a designed successor could begin
employment at MSPP as early as January 2013.
MSPP is a vibrant, growing institution enrolling almost 600
full-time students in a variety of graduate programs. It strives
to be one of America’s preeminent schools of psychology
by providing programs that integrate rigorous academic
instruction with extensive field education and close attention
to professional development. MSPP has assumed an ongoing
social responsibility to create programs that educate individu-
als for psychology-based professional careers including – but
not limited to – specialists in many disciplines to meet the
evolving mental health needs of society. MSPP is an academic
community that fully involves all employed personnel in insti-
tution-wide decision-making and development – the voices of
faculty as well as those of professional and non-professional
staff are encouraged and heard. Personnel are valued and
appreciated both for their contributions to the School and
for their own individuality. Established in 1974 as a 501(c)( 3)
non-profit private institution of higher education, MSPP is
currently housed in its third location. The enrollment growth
of the School has led to repeated needs for expanded physical
facilities, and the School is again anticipating the need for
campus expansion – a lease/purchase agreement for a new
building was recently finalized and the School expects to open
the 2012-13 academic year at a new location in a completely
remodeled and uniquely designed facility. MSPP is accredited
by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
MSPP’s doctoral program in clinical psychology currently
enrolls 325 students; the program prepares practicing
clinicians through coordinated ongoing academic and applied
experience. Throughout the four-year program coursework is
coordinated with field placement experiences in practica and
internships; it provides a strong academic and experiential
base for understanding and treating human problems. The
curriculum is designed to offer broad and rigorous training
in clinical knowledge and skills; the integration of applied
experience and knowledge is at the core of the MSPP
education model. The program actively engages the
development of the “professional self” through integration
at all levels – in the classroom, at practica and internships,
and through self-observation and awareness. These are the
essential elements that the faculty believe are necessary to
cultivate and nurture thoughtful, sensitive, culturally
competent and effective professional psychologists.
The doctoral program in clinical psychology is accredited by
the American Psychological Association. Instruction is
provided by a faculty of 25 core faculty, whose work is
supported by an array of well qualified adjuncts.
The Head of the Clinical Psychology Department is assisted
by an Associate Department Head who is responsible for
(a) ensuring program quality through the development,
implementation, and continuous improvement of a systematic
and comprehensive student outcomes assessment process;
(b) leading the faculty to consideration of alternative
pedagogies and curricular approaches, including – but not
limited to – consideration of systemic improvements in deter-
mination of internship readiness and doctoral project quality,
and the consideration of expansion of technology in teaching
(including consideration of limited online teaching); and
(c) assuring compliance with APA accreditation requirements,
maintaining attention to accreditation-related demands, and
preparing all APA accreditation-related documents and
communication. In addition to supervising the work of the
Associate Department Head and making certain that those
critically important functions are being satisfactorily
addressed, and in addition to any other professional
assignments that may be consigned by the
tae to: Human Resources, 1901
E. 1st, P.O. Box 467, Newton, KS
67114. E-mail: humanresources@
pvi.org; www.prairieview.org. An
Equal Opportunity Employer.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR—
CLINICAL: The Department of Psychology at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS invites applications
for a tenure-track assistant professor
position for the academic year beginning in August 2012. Applicants
must have a Ph.D. in psychology by
then, a record of research productivity, abilities to attract external funding and interact collegially, a commitment to teaching graduate students and undergraduates, and a
demonstrated commitment to diversity. The position will have primary
responsibility in our APA-accredited community oriented clinical doctoral program. The successful candidate will supervise students in research and clinical practice in our
community clinical model. A Ph.D.
from an APA-accredited clinical
program with an APA- or APPIC-accredited internship is required as
are the credentials to be licensed in
Kansas. Candidates must be committed to clinical research, practice
and teaching from a scientist-prac-titioner and community psychology action-research perspective. The
department has strong connections
with the city’s educational, social
service and mental health organizations. The department is research
oriented with extensive external
funding. Wichita State University
is located in the state’s largest city
and major industrial metropolitan
area with a population of over a half
million. Women and minorities are
especially encouraged to apply. Salary is competitive, negotiable, and
commensurate with qualifications.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants should apply at https://jobs.
wichita.edu. Three letters of recommendation should be sent to: Dr.
Alex Chaparro, Chairperson, Psychology Department, Wichita State
University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0034. WSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer, and is
committed to excellence through
diversity.
MARYLAND
EDITOR/EXPERT READER: Men-sana Publications, LLC, requires
two Ph.D. psychologists to develop
continuing education online quizzes
based on professional books, test
manuals, and articles. Send resume
to: info@mensanapublications.com.
PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATE—
BETHESDA, MD: Civilian opportunity for a master’s-level psychology
associate to administer neuropsychological and personality testings,
prepare reports, and psychotherapy under the traumatic brain pro-
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