Specialist-Counselor

Provide effective and efficient technical assistance and training to ESC clients for the development and implementation of instructional and assessment support to improve student performance. Required frequent in-region and occasional out-of-region travel, occasional prolonged and irregular hours.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master’s Degree in ONE of the following: social work, mental health counseling, counseling, psychology or closely related field
• Must hold one or more of the following licenses:
• • Certified School Counselor
  • School Psychologist
  • Licensed Mental Health Professional in the state of Texas
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
• School experience preferred, but not required

Knowledge/Skills:

• An in-depth knowledge of counseling practices
• An in-depth knowledge and content expertise, specific to role
• Knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to facilitate training, awareness, promotion, and family engagement in collaboration with state and local partners
• Ability to design, deliver, and facilitate high-quality professional development for adult audiences, both in person and virtually
• Ability to connect with students and provide counseling supports
• Ability to connect with diverse audiences and understand complex and unique circumstances in order to support growth among individuals and across regions/districts
• Ability to coach, model and provide feedback on performance
• Highly organized; ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality work in diverse environment
• Ability to break down complex information into comprehensive parts, ask questions, synthesize and analyze
• Ability to influence others to achieve outcomes, both within and outside formal management structures
• Collaborative and results-oriented
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Expertise in virtual platforms and virtual facilitation to ensure the continued ability to meet client needs
• Demonstrates a growth mindset, desire to self-reflect, give/receive feedback and continuously improve
• Strong sense of personal accountability; takes initiative to meet ambitious goals
• Builds strong relationships without compromising outcomes
• Knowledge of and experience using Microsoft Office, Google, video conferencing tools, and multimedia equipment

Essential Functions:

• Designs, delivers, and/or facilitates job-embedded professional development for relevant clients at district, school, or classroom level, including:
• • Whole-group trainings that build a shared understanding of skills, practices, or systems and include opportunities for practice
  • Support for participants implementing a new skill, practice, or system within their context, including co-planning, observation, and real-time feedback
  • One-on-one coaching sessions that identify participant successes and develop their capacity to improve high-leverage areas of growth
  • Technical assistance that provides direct, responsive training or support to individuals or small groups around compliance, systems, or state requirements
• Partners closely with classroom/school to assess areas in need of capacity building and to develop intentional scope and sequences of professional development aimed at effectively addressing those growth areas
• Effectively supports stakeholders to analyze data to drive instructional growth (at relevant classroom/school) by identifying areas of strength and opportunity as applicable for their role and context
• Contributes to the scaling and aligning of best practices in instruction and/or instructional leadership with other individuals, teams, or departments
• Contributes to the scaling and aligning of best practices in school safety with other individuals, teams, or departments
• Contributes to building and strengthening the culture of individual teams and the entire Academic Services Department
• Complies with federal and state laws, State Board of Education Rules, and ESC board policy and procedures

All positions at ESC 3 are defined as security-sensitive. Security-sensitive positions are those which require employees to be entrusted with the certain types of data, whether electronic or in paper form. Those data elements, as defined by the ESC 3 Data Classification and Handling Policy may include, but not limited to:

• Sensitive Personal Information (SPI)

• Personally, Identifiable Information (PII)

• Protected Health Information (PHI)

• Family Educational Records (FERPA Data)

• Federal Tax Information (FTI)

• HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act)

It is the employees on-going responsibility to safeguard this type of data and to report any instance of lost or stolen data.