Counselor, School Counseling & Student Support, Education ​/ Teaching

School Counselor

ACCEL Academy, recognized throughout for its forward-thinking and progressive culture, is seeking school counselors. The certified school counselor provides leadership by implementing a comprehensive, data-driven school counseling program aligned with the district and school's mission to promote academic, social/emotional, and college/career development while ensuring equity and access for all students.

• Reviews and disaggregates student achievement, attendance, and behavior data to identify and implement interventions with current knowledge of promotion, retention, and graduation requirements.
• Uses school data to identify and assist individual students who do not perform at grade level and do not have the opportunities and resources to succeed in school.
• Creates yearly, data-driven goals that advance student outcomes in academic, social/emotional, and college/career development.
• Uses the skills of leadership, advocacy, and collaboration skills to create systemic change to improve all students' academic, social/emotional, and post-graduate success.
• Performs other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the Principal.

Promoting a Positive School Climate

• Acts as a systems change agent in collaboration with the school leadership team to ensure a safe, supportive, and respectful school climate that promotes all students' social/emotional, and academic development and success.
• Fosters family and community partnerships to support all students' social/emotional, and academic development.
• Infuses cultural competence and ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Provides preventative education, skill building, and counseling for students during transition, separation, heightened stress, and critical change.
• Uses appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group, or school community before, during, and after crisis response.
• Supports the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and tiered intervention strategies, and collaborates with school-based and community mental health providers to enhance student success.

Leadership and Advocacy

• Develops and communicates a school counseling mission statement that is specific, concise, clear and comprehensive, describing a school counseling program's purpose and vision of the program's benefits for every student in alignment with the school, district and state missions.
• Uses student data to demonstrate a need for systemic change in areas such as course enrollment patterns; equity and access; and achievement, opportunity and/or information gaps.
• Advocates for student equity and access to a world-class education that leads to high school graduation and fosters post-graduate success.
• Analyzes and reports outcomes of the school counseling program and goals, which are presented in the context of the overall school and district performance.
• Utilizes technology effectively and efficiently to plan, organize, implement and evaluate the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Uses legal and ethical decision-making based on standards and principles of the school counseling profession and educational systems, including district and building policies.
• Collaborates with school staff in analyzing student performance data, rigorous goal-setting, and developing effective action plans for improving academic, social/emotional, and post-graduate outcomes for all students.

Additional Job Functions

• Follows adopted policies and procedures in accordance with Network priorities.
• Performs other duties specified in local, state, and federal rules, laws, and statutes.

Ability to

• Demonstrate the ability to design, implement, analyze, and document comprehensive school counseling program outcomes based on national and state standards.
• Demonstrate the ability to support student achievement, social/emotional development, and college/career readiness.
• Abide by the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with diverse groups.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrate knowledge of technology and software applications appropriate to job responsibilities.

Required Qualifications

• Holds or is eligible for a certificate in school counseling, which requires a master's degree or higher in guidance and counseling or counselor education.

Terms

Twelve (12) month, 240 days contract with a salary established by the Board in terms of the Administrative Provisions and based on experience and qualifications.

Salary: $52,000.00 - $75,000.00 a year

• Performance Incentives based upon network academic performance

Benefits

Full-time employees receive health benefits through the Alabama Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Program (PEEHIP) and retirement benefits through the Alabama Teacher Retirement System.