SCHOOL COUNSELOR, HIGH (TEMPORARY)

ACADEMICS

WEST EARLY COLLEGE, Northwest

Hourly, not benefits eligible

FTE: 1.0

Salary Range: http://careers.dpsk12.org/teachercomp/compensation-your-first-year/

Essential Functions and Objectives:

A dministers and manages activities within a specific area of a responsibility. Serves as the subject matter expert and applies gained knowledge to execute, maintain and improve systems, programs, or processes.

P romote and enhance the learning process for students through an integration of academic, personal/social, and post-secondary development.

- Provides various support and conducts activities related to logistics, reporting, training, communications, and processes. Participates in the planning and implementation of new initiatives.

- Assesses and troubleshoots escalated problems and applies expert understanding to resolve complex challenges of stakeholders; focuses on root cause identification in order to achieve systemic and sustainable improvement. Approves and documents exceptions for compliance record keeping and reporting.

- Ensures appropriate key stakeholder involvement in planning, goal-setting, and implementation to achieve buy-in of work products. Ensures purposeful, positive and professional interactions and relationships with all stakeholders; enables consistent application of work products across the district.

- Identifies opportunities for improvement, prioritizes, and recommends solutions to management. Implements approved enhancements to ensure consistency across the district. Identifies opportunities to reduce costs; analyzes available data, trends, and feedback, and ensures compliance with expectations for optimal operation and goal achievement.

- Counsel students to encourage and support student achievement.

- Counsel students regarding educational issues such as course and program selection, class scheduling, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and college/career planning.

- Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.

- Create and update accurate and complete student records as required by law, district policies, and administrative regulations.

- Collaborate with parents or guardians, teachers, other counselors and support staff, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral, academic, and other problems.

- Provide crisis intervention to students.

- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their student's progress and to determine their priorities for their children and their resource needs.

- Prepare students for post-secondary options.

- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.

K nowledge, Experience & Other Qualifications:

- One (1) or more years of related experience.

- Current Colorado Department of Education Special Service Provider License with School Counselor endorsement.

- Knowledge of Google Suite with emphasis in Sheets, Forms, and Docs as well as Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook.

- Effective time management and organizational skills.

- Effective communication skills.

- Strong attention to detail.

- Effectively handle multiple demands and competing deadlines.

- The ability to take responsibility for one's own performance.

- Work collaboratively with others on a team.

- Aptitude for variety and changing expectations and fast-paced environment.

- Ability to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills.

- Ability to plan and organize completion of projects.

- Ability to remain calm in an emergency situation.

- Demonstrates respect for children, teenagers, and adults.

- Bilingual skills in Spanish preferred.

E ducation Requirements:

- Master's Degree in Counseling required.

About Denver Public Schools:

Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org .

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.