Employment | Santa Barbara Graduate Institute

We encourage you to search our site to see if working in this small, but leading edge educational community fits with your career goals. We offer benefits and an environment that allows you the opportunity to make a difference in the world while growing both professionally and personally.

We are a teaching learning organization that holds relationship, scholarship and leadership as central to our mission. Everyone in the organization is always learning: about ourselves, our jobs and our institute and looking for more effective paths to excellence and self-fulfillment. We work closely as a team and depend on your personal creativity, initiative, integrity and dedication. We maintain a very congenial atmosphere and support each person’s unique style and contributions. Everyone is an integral part of fulfilling our mission.

We are locatated in beautiful Santa Barbara, California with views of the ocean and the mountains. Our students are mid-career professionals who are dedicated to making a difference and come from all over the United States and the world.

If you are interested in a position, please email your letter of interest and resume to mglenn@thechicagoschool. edu

Current Job Openings:

Adjunct Faculty

Santa Barbara Graduate Institute is now accepting applications for adjunct and research faculty to teach California licensure track classes and specialization classes in the disciplines of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology (including Developmental), Somatic Psychology and Clinical Psychology. Minimum qualifications: PhD, PsyD, MD required. If you are interested in a position, please email your letter of interest, and your CV to Marti Glenn at mglenn@thechicagoschool. edu

Full-time Core Faculty Member in the Somatic Psychology Department

The Somatic Psychology Department, SBGI-TCS currently has an opening for a full-time core faculty member.

The Somatic Psychology Department at SBGI-TCS is one of four graduate programs in somatic psychology, and the only program to offer both the MA and PhD degree. Students who graduate from the Master’s program in clinical psychology with a specialization in somatic psychology fulfill the academic requirements for Marriage and Family Therapist licensure in the State of California. Students in the PhD program engage in leading edge research, clinical practice and preparation for teaching in a rapidly evolving academic and professional field.

Our growing student community currently serves close to 150 students in two innovative delivery formats, including a hybrid online program. The department holds a commitment to academic rigor and solid theoretical grounding in combination with an experiential approach to developing clinical skills.

Duties: Full time faculty are expected to teach core clinical psychology courses as well as somatic psychology specialty courses in both delivery formats. Consequently, familiarity with several somatic psychotherapy modalities and experience teaching online will be considered assets. Faculty will also be expected to undertake student advising, sit on student doctoral committees, and participate in the administrative and faculty governance activities of the department.

Qualifications: Successful applicants will hold a doctorate degree in clinical psychology or related field, and should be license eligible. They will possess extensive clinical experience in the field of somatic psychology, evidence of teaching at the graduate level, and demonstrated administrative skills, experience in higher education and a commitment to diversity.

Compensation/Benefits: In 2009, The Chicago School was named one of the nation’s “great colleges to work for” by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chicago School offers a generous compensation and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to work for a leader in the field of professional psychology. Some of our key benefits include: generous paid time-off, medical and dental coverage, company-paid life and disability insurance, 403b with employer contribution, multiple flexible spending accounts (FSA), tuition reimbursement, professional development, and regular employee appreciation events.

Please send a cover letter and curriculum vitae to Dr. Rae Johnson, SBGI Somatic Psychology Department Chair, raejohnson@thechicagoschool.edu

Full-time Core Faculty Member in the Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Department

The Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Department currently has an opening for a full-time core faculty member.

Santa Barbara Graduate Institute -TCS is the first and only academic institution to offer degrees in prenatal and perinatal psychology. SBGI’s Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Department aims to prepare students to become effective psychotherapists, educators, researchers, and health care providers. Students follow either the clinical psychology or psychoeducational track. All degree offerings focus on healthy functioning and prevention; courses in the clinical psychology curriculum also concentrate on pathology and intervention.

Duties: Full time faculty are expected to teach core clinical psychology courses as well as prenatal and perinatal psychology specialty courses in both delivery formats. Consequently, familiarity with prenatal and perinatal psychotherapy and/or infant mental health, maternal/child health and experience teaching online will be considered assets. Faculty will also be expected to undertake student advising, sit on student doctoral committees, and participate in the administrative and faculty governance activities of the department.

Qualifications: Successful applicants will hold a doctorate degree in clinical psychology or related field, and should be license eligible. They will possess clinical experience in a field related to prenatal and perinatal psychology, evidence of teaching at the graduate level, and demonstrated administrative skills, experience in higher education and a commitment to diversity.

Background: The prenatal and perinatal period of human development encompasses conception, pregnancy, birth, and infancy. Prenatal and perinatal psychology is an emerging field that studies the mental, emotional, physical, social, environmental, and spiritual aspects of this period for the developing child, mother, and young family. We have an interest in expanding the work of pre- and periantal psychology to include infant/family mental health and wellness.

Please send a cover letter and curriculum vitae to Dr. Marti Glenn, SBGI Campus Dean, mglenn@thechicagoschool.edu