Coordinator - School Counselor

JOB DESCRIPTION

Gilbert Unified School District

Purpose Statement The Coordinator School Counselor’s mission is to provide guidance to academic school counselors and school leadership, focused on all areas of student services.

Essential Functions

• Support all secondary School Counselors in utilizing effective strategies to assist students in developing goals, formulating personalized plans, and making decisions that will support them in reaching their goals.
• Interpret schoolwide data and to guide program decisions, make course recommendations, and take other actions to ensure each counseling department is college and career ready and can meet post-secondary goals.
• Monitor campus plans to involve students and families in the development of the student’s academic and postsecondary plans.
• Provide professional development on strategies to support students and families to address academic and social emotional needs.
• Ensure that all counseling teams provide individual and small-group counseling to help students identify problems, causes, alternatives, and possible consequences as they confront challenges in relationships.

Such counseling is normally short-term.

• Serve as a member of the district behavior team to maintain crisis counseling that provides prevention, intervention, and follow-up counseling and support to students and families facing emergency situations.
• Organize district and outside resources to assure consistency in access districtwide for all counseling teams.
• Collaborate with all counseling teams, administrators, teachers, staff members and families regularly to identify trends, provide information, receive feedback on the emerging needs of students, and support the school community.
• Analyze student achievement and counseling program-related data to evaluate the counseling program and discover gaps that exist between different counseling teams that need to be addressed.
• Promote access and opportunity for all students and demonstrate the belief that all students can succeed and should graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience

• Strong background and skills with technology
• Familiarity with school improvement practices and Arizona’s school accountability system
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work with and motivate others
• Secondary counseling experience
• Master’s degree in education or related field preferred
• Knowledge of graduation requirements and college and career readiness

Experience

Job related experience within specialized field is required Education

Master’s degree from an accredited educational institution preferred Required Testing

None Specified

Continuing Educ. / Training

None Specified Certificates & Licenses

Appropriate Certification as listed by the Arizona Department of Education Clearances

Current Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card FLSA Status

Exempt Approval Date

January 24,2024 Salary Grade

Coordinator-232 12 Month