Durango School District 9-R is accepting applications for a Coordinator of School Counseling.  

Job Title: Coordinator of School Counseling       Pay Grade: Administrative Salary Schedule, Range C

Department: Curriculum and Assessment        FLSA Status: Exempt

Typical Work Year: 205 days                         Prepared Date: November 13, 2017

SUMMARY: The Coordinator of School Counseling is a Colorado School Counselor Corp Grant funded position aimed at increasing the graduation rate, decreasing the dropout rate, improving college persistence rates, and decreasing postsecondary remediation rates. This position is also an integral part of ensuring all students meet or exceed the 9-R Mindset and Behavior Graduation Standards for Postsecondary and Career Readiness. The role of the coordinator is to develop a collaborative culture among secondary school counselors to develop and implement systems, procedures, and routines for ensuring that we achieve the goals set forth in our grant. The Coordinator of School Counseling will collaborate with the entire Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment team, school leaders, school counselors and academic advisors to achieve our goals. He/she will demonstrate passion and transformational leadership in providing quality learning experiences for every student.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Manage the district’s School Counselor Corp Grant, including End of Year Reports, data collection, and budget.
• Develop and implement systems, procedures, and routines for ensuring that 100% of students in grades 6-12 complete a meaningful ICAP experience at their grade level. (School Counselor Corp Grant goal)
• Develop and implement systems, procedures, and routines to increase student self-management skills. (School Counselor Corp Grant goal)
• Collaborate with secondary schools to develop and implement a comprehensive school counseling program.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication between schools to ensure that the comprehensive school counseling program is being delivered across all campuses and that it is meeting the needs of all students.
• Lead a process to review and recommend curriculum resources aligned to the district’s Graduation Standards and to the district’s ICAP.
• Lead others in successful implementation of quality formative and summative assessment practices.
• Develop a data collection system to monitor progress on our goals, student achievement, and curricular implementation.
• Analyze student and program related data for the purpose of providing information related to student and program achievement in order to evaluate program effectiveness and to provide information needed for strategic planning.
• Facilitate adult learning in a way that develops the professional community’s compelling purpose, collective efficacy and shared responsibility for student learning, collaborative culture, communal application of effective teaching practices, deprivatized practice, relational trust, and individual/group learning based on ongoing assessment and feedback so that each educator and student meets or exceeds expectations.
• Collaborate with school counselors and advisors to construct learning opportunities that facilitate systemic practices aligned to personalized mastery and competency in graduation standards and performance indicators. ? Observe counselor and advisor practice and provide cognitive coaching and feedback for professional growth and student success.
• Support school leaders, instructional leadership teams, and teachers in using data to meet the needs of every student so that all students meet or exceed graduation standards and graduation competencies.
• Collaborate with school counselors and advisors to construct parent outreach activities.

ADDITIONAL JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Demonstrate faithfulness and promptness in attendance at work.
• Submit required reports promptly at the times specified.
• Demonstrate care of and protection of School District property
• Report suspected child abuse or neglect as required by law.
• Use the District’s internet and E-mail system as specified in Policy.
• Fulfill other duties as assigned by the Director, Superintendent or their designees.
• Models continual improvement, demonstrates lifelong learning, and applies new learning to help all students be successful.
• Demonstrates evidence of professional growth, including leadership and participation in a wide range of significant professional development activities.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING: Minimum: Bachelor’s degree from accredited university. Master’s degree in School Counseling Preferred: Education and/or training in curriculum and assessment development.

EXPERIENCE: Minimum: Three years of successful school counseling experience required.

Preferred Experience:

• Counseling experience at middle and high school.
• School leadership experience.
• Experience in educator leadership, learning focused conversations, and/or cognitive coaching.
• Experience implementing personalized learning practices in a competency-based learning model.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS Valid driver’s license required. Colorado School Counseling License required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, & ABILITIES:

• Excellent interpersonal relations and oral and written communication skills.
• Strong decision making, analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to work with teachers with diverse needs in various contexts.
• Ability to develop and implement lessons and programming that lead to student success in meeting the graduation standards.
• Ability to lead others.
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job.
• Ability to promote and follow Board and District policies, Superintendent policies and building/department procedures.
• Ability to communicate, interact and work effectively and cooperatively in a team setting
• Ability to recognize the importance of safety in the workplace, follow safety rules, practice safe work habits, utilize appropriate safety equipment and report unsafe conditions to the appropriate administrator.
• Ability to utilize formative and summative assessments to access student learning.

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT OPERATING KNOWLEDGE:

• Computers and general office equipment.
• Microsoft Office applications.
• Student Information Systems.
• Presentation tools.

Durango School District 9-R is an equal opportunity educational institution and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability or need for special education services in admissions, access to treatment, or employment in educational programs or activities which it operates, or any other applicable status protected by federal, state or local law. For information regarding civil rights or grievance procedures, contact Laura Galido, Compliance Officer, Durango School District 9-R, 201 E 12th Street, Durango, CO 81301, (970) 247-5411, lgalido@durango.k12.co.us, or the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 1244 Spear Boulevard, Suite 310, Denver, CO 80204-3582, (303) 844-5695.