District Counselor

CHANDLER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION: CERTIFIED

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DISTRICT COUNSELOR CALENDAR: 0222FT (10.5 MONTH) SALARY: CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL SALARY SCHEDULE Job Goal

The District Counselor is a content expert, instructional leader, and professional development instructor for the counseling department. The District Counselor is flexible and adaptable with a high degree of organization, facilitation, and management.

• Appropriately certified in the designated content area
• Master’s degree in school counseling
• Knowledge of SEL competencies and evidence-based strategies
• Demonstrated knowledge of school counseling comprehensive models
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experiences

• Utilize counseling content and instructional expertise, along with leadership skills and experience, to support the District Department's macro-level programming goals
• Keep up to date with current evidence-based research, curriculum development, and instructional strategies for school counselors
• Research and implement supports for the development of social‑emotional curriculum lessons
• Facilitate communication and staffing of cases between the school counselors, the Department of Counseling, and District /site personnel as needed.
• Support school counselors in site and district-level prevention, intervention, and postvention implementation.
• Serve as a liaison for community agencies, as well as state and national organizations, and other stakeholders to develop and execute programming, create systems for seamless referrals, and resource practices.
• Serve as a liaison for nonprofit and community organizations to develop and execute programming, create systems for seamless referrals, and resource practices.
• Develop and facilitate professional development courses based on student achievement gaps, needs, site, and district goals
• Create content used to develop a needs assessment to support school sites.
• Consult and collaborate to work effectively with site leadership and site school counselors to create data-driven programming to address the whole child with a focus on marginalized students.
• Model evidence-based practices for tier 1, 2, and 3 strategies.
• Disaggregate and analyze assessment data and assist in the interpretation of the data to support achievement gaps, and increase access to educational programming
• Create and develop content to address staff wellness education and training to improve retention.
• Identify, assess, and construct district-level parent programming to meet the needs of regional areas in the community.
• Assist in expanding and using best practices with the use of technology resources to maintain ethical standards of record keeping.
• Serve as leads on crisis and mandatory reporting teams.
• Serve as a consultant on threat assessment interventions and support.
• Perform other duties relating to the general job function as assigned by the supervisor

• Excellence
  inall we do. No matter how large or small, we value excellence in all parts of this organization. Excellence is a value, a quality, and our most important product.
• Equity
  and fairness in all things. Education is the great leveler, and we intend for all our students, staff, and patrons to have the opportunity, tools, and ability to succeed and excel.
• Collaboration
  is an effective decision-making model as well as an effective morale-enhancing model.
• Integrity
  is simply non-negotiable. Honesty, integrity, and reliability are the foundations of our organization.
• Efficiency
  is the essence of being a good steward of public trust. We are supported by our community because we continually demonstrate our ability to produce the very best by carefully using the resources available.

• Respond to all internal and external customers, as it relates to position, in a prompt, efficient, friendly, and patient manner
• Function effectively as a team member
• Be responsible, reliable, and punctual
• Be flexible and adaptable to change
• Positively accept direction
• Maintain courteous, cooperative working relationships with students, staff, and parents
• Direct constructive criticism toward improving the district
• Exercise positive problem-solving…