Counsellor – Varsity Athletics Mental Health & Performance

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Salary: $8,087.08–$12,117.08 CAD monthly

Company

hirify.global provides student health, wellbeing, counselling, athletics, and educational services within a university environment.

What you will do

• Provide single-session and short-term counselling, triage, referrals, and crisis support for varsity student-athletes.
• Deliver applied mental performance consultations and interventions for individual athletes and teams.
• Develop and facilitate workshops, seminars, orientation sessions, outreach programs, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Consult with coaches, Athletics staff, faculty, and multidisciplinary student support professionals.
• Build and maintain internal and external referral networks and keep student wellbeing resources current.
• Attend relevant team practices or games and contribute to Athletics committees, meetings, reports, and working groups.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology or a related field.
• Eligibility for professional certification in British Columbia.
• Minimum five years of clinical counselling experience.
• Experience supervising Master’s-level practicum students.
• Ability to work independently within professional and ethical guidelines and collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and respect for diverse perspectives.

Nice to have

• Training or applied experience in sport psychology, performance psychology, or mental performance consultation.
• Experience working with athletes, teams, coaches, and staff in athletic or high-performance environments.
• Experience with single-session counselling, triage, stepped care, brief therapy, outreach, and program development.
• University or college counselling experience and knowledge of student development.

Culture & Benefits

• Part-time, fixed-term leave replacement position ending November 29, 2027.
• Staff position with non-union status.
• Collaborative work across Athletics and Recreation, Student Health and Wellbeing, student services, and community resources.
• Opportunity to support culturally appropriate wellbeing programming for varsity student-athletes.