Regional Counselor (Houston Area) - Ignite

Responsive Education Solutions•La Marque, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join us at Ignite Community Schools, where we're lighting the way for student success across Texas! As a network of multiple public charter schools under Responsive Education Solutions, we're dedicated to creating joyful, academically excellent environments that empower students to pursue their dreams, whether in college, career, or beyond. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism is at the core of everything we do. We're seeking passionate individuals to join our team and family, individuals who believe in the potential of every child and are ready to champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and rise together with us. As the Brand Regional Counselor, you'll be at the heart of our mission, ensuring the mental wellness and developing the morale compass for each of our communities. You'll design and lead efficient, safe, joyful, and just character lessons that promote inclusivity, ensuring that every student, family, and staff member has what they need to succeed. Your role will be pivotal in removing obstacles to learning and finding creative solutions to challenges, all while providing best-in-class customer service to our community. If you're ready to make a difference and be part of a team that's shaping the future, join us at Ignite Community Schools. Together, we can build a more just world, one student at a time.

Requirements

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university
Valid Texas school counselor certificate
2+ years of teaching experience

Responsibilities

Mental Health Promotion
Substance Abuse Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Grief Informed and Trauma Informed Practices
Building Skills Related to Managing Emotions, Establishing and Maintaining Positive Relationships, and Responsible Decision-Making
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
Safe and Supportive School Climate
Supporting our attendance goal of 97% ADA per campus.
Activating and working with absent scholars based on our attendance matrix.
Establishing relationships with scholars to support our student retention goal of 90%.
Collaborate with campus staff and administrators to provide wrap around services for student’s needs.
Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student’s own personal and social development.
Provide preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling as needed.
Coordinate school, home, and community resources and refer students, parents, and others to special programs and services as needed.
Work collaboratively to advocate for individual students and specific groups of students.
Plan, implement, evaluate, and promote continuous improvement of a balanced mental/behavioral guidance program.
Plan and conduct lessons that align to the Ignite mission and utilize the current curriculum for Character Virtues, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Stephen Covey in accordance with students’ developmental needs, and Move this World.
Compile, maintain, and file all reports, records and other documents as required.
Comply with mental health counseling policies established by federal and state law, state board of education rule, and board policy.
Provide career education opportunities for all campuses.
Provide professional development for campus staff to be in compliant with the most up to date procedures and mental health awareness efforts.
Comply with all district and campus routines and regulations.
Adhere to legal, ethical, and professional standards for school counselors including current professional standards of competence and practice.
Travel required.
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above essential duties and responsibilities.