Graduation Counselor

Company: Cincinnati Public Schools
Location: Cincinnati
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Position Type:
Counseling Assignment
Date Posted:
5/3/2023
Location:
This is a pool - Location to be determined
Date Available:
2023-24
Closing Date:
06/01/2023 ABOUT CPS:
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) serves nearly 36,000 students preschool to 12th grade in 63 school communities, across a 90-square-mile district in Southwest Ohio. Cincinnati Public Schools is the best-performing large urban district in Ohio and ranks among the top 2 percent of Ohio districts for students' learning and growth and offers families high-quality school choices and academic programs.
The district's innovative approach to education, its investment in effective and caring educators and employees, and vast array of collaborative partnerships have accelerated school performance to the highest level in decades - ensuring that students in preschool to 12th grade thrive and graduate prepared for successful lives in the 21st century.
Cincinnati Public is looking for creative, innovative, passionate, problem-solvers to join our team. We seek to have a positive impact on our children and families every day and are looking for staff members who want to not only do an excellent job with their career field but also serve as a role model for the children in CPS. We invite you to become a member of our CPS work family.
School Graduation Counselor
Following the posting, the team will review applications and invite those they select to an interview.
The team will decide, based on the interviews, who is in the pool. ONLY those who are selected from the pool will be eligible for counselor vacancies.
POSITION:
School Graduation Counselor
REPORTS TO:
Building Principal
College Manager
Lead Counselor
GENERAL FUNCTION:
Provide services to at-risk students, parents, school staff and the community. School Graduation Counselors address the developmental needs of at-risk students through a comprehensive school counseling program addressing the academic, career and personal/social development of all students.
MAJOR DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Promote increased graduation rates and success post-high school, beginning with students in 9th grade

• Connects individual students and their parents with appropriate credit or course recovery options, as appropriate.
  • Collaboration with high school teachers and administrators on supports that work for youth identified as at risk of not graduating
    • Coordinates individual and group counseling for students identified at risk in a collaborative manner with other School Counselors, as needed
    • Observes and understands characteristics of potential dropouts to identify high school students (grades 9-12) with a high probability of not graduating.
    • In partnership with the campus registrar, creates strong structures to know which students are at risk of not graduating
    • Develops and implements individual intervention strategies to increase the likelihood that students will stay in school and graduate.
    • Works with at-risk students to develop a graduation and achievement plan to include the best program to meet academic and post-secondary goals.
    • Provides students with appropriate career and post-secondary preparation, programs and /services.
    • Conducts an analysis of data for individual students and subgroups (i.e., State Standardized Tests, National Standardized Tests: SAT and ACT, Local Records: Attendance, behavior, teacher conferences, parent conferences, student conferences, grade retention records, and credits earned) to guide plan development.
    • Tracks and reports the progress of individuals and subpopulations of students toward graduation.
    • Regularly verifies and cleans roster of students in each graduation cohort
    • In collaboration with the other School Counselors and the graduation team, support the tracking and uploading of graduation requirements & documentation
    • Support post-high school reporting for ODE purposes
      • Identifies and links area social agencies with youth at risk of not graduating and their parents/guardians.
      • Develops partnerships with community organizations to support the goals of the high school graduation initiative.
        • Performs other duties as assigned by an appropriate administrator or their representative.
          QUALIFICATIONS:
          • Masters or higher in School Counseling accredited program required
          • Ohio School Counseling License required by 8/1/2023
            Contact with Others:
            Internal: Teachers, administrators, school social workers, psychologists, nurses, career and college information center coordinators and others.
            External: Parents, social agencies, community representatives, college representatives, health professionals and post-secondary institutions.
            Certification: School Counselor Certification/Licensure from the State of Ohio required
            Specification:
            Knowledge and Ability (Special Skills)
            Must know current counseling techniques, have effective oral and written communication skills, exhibit positive interpersonal relationship skills; demonstrate sound management, planning and organizational skills and serve as a consultant to the various constituents involved in the school counseling program.
            All applicants should submit a resume, and application online at www.cps-k12.org, click on employment, then Apply Online.
            Note: A lead teacher in a position may not be appointed to an administrative position while serving as a lead teacher. A lead teacher may apply for an administrative position if the lead teacher resigns the lead teacher position prior to submitting an application, however, selection is not guaranteed. A consulting teacher may not be appointed to an administrative position while serving as a consulting teacher and for one full school year after serving as a consulting teacher.
            The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
            Certain jobs at Cincinnati Public Schools may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation are available upon request from Human Resources
            All interested applicants are invited to submit an online application at www.CPS-K12.ORG; click on Apply online. Please include a resume and a photocopy of the certificate required (unless on file in the Certificated Personnel Office) for this position and the names, titles, email and addresses of three professional references.
            Note: A lead teacher in a position may not be appointed to an administrative position while serving as a lead teacher. A lead teacher may apply for an administrative position if the lead teacher resigns the lead teacher position prior to submitting an application, however, selection is not guaranteed. A consulting teacher may not be appointed to an administrative position while serving as a consulting teacher and for one full school year after serving as a consulting teacher.
            Cincinnati Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and is subject to federal regulations pertaining to employment. The district has a continuing non-discrimination policy which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. We hire only United States citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States.

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