Elementary School Counselor, Alpha School (Remote) - $60,000/Year Usd

Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, Alpha School. Have you got what it takes?

Please note: This is an in-person, salaried ($60,000/yr) role based in Austin, Texas.

Are you passionate about emotional intelligence and equipping students with the tools they need to thrive? Are you ready to join a team where creativity is welcome, but stacks of paperwork aren't? Alpha Austin is seeking a certified counselor to join our team and provide a safe, nurturing environment for our students beginning in August 2023.

Alpha is building the Stanford of K-12 education. We are an innovative new school with a life-changing value proposition for students and plans to expand rapidly. We make three promises to students and their families: students will love school, students will learn 3-5x faster through the use of adaptive learning apps instead of teachers, and students will learn valuable life skills to supplement their academic training.

In this role, you will support students' emotional growth at school. You'll do this through traditional 1:1 relationship-building as well as group workshops. You'll build a library of mental health resources to provide our students with the social and emotional tools they need to thrive in an ever-changing world. Your work will lay the foundation for EQ and social-emotional learning across our growing network of schools. And best of all? You won't be working alone. You'll have the support of our Counseling Lead and the buy-in of campus staff, who will work alongside you to implement your creative ideas!

If you are a talented counselor ready to build the best emotional intelligence & mental health support system out there, we want to talk to you!

What You Will Be Doing

• Building relationships with each student, getting to know their unique needs and interests
• Promoting campus-wide mental wellness through resource identification, workshops, staff training, etc.
• Communicating clearly and calmly about students' strengths, challenges, and needs with parents
• Hosting emotional intelligence workshops to teach K-8 students research-backed skills
• Conducting root cause analyses and working with the Counseling Lead to develop plans to prevent future behavioral challenges
• Deescalating and processing with students immediately after any incidents

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Diagnosing or treating mental health issues
• Serving as a disciplinarian or classroom aide
• Helping students try to fit into Alpha’s unique environment when it is not the right fit for them

Elementary School Counselor Key Responsibilities

• Equip students with the emotional intelligence tools needed to love school, learn 2x faster, and learn life skills

Basic Requirements

• A Master's degree in a counseling-related field (e.g., Psychology, School Counseling, Social Work, etc.)
• Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
• 2+ years of counseling experience with Kindergarten - 4th grade students
• Willingness to work on-site at our Austin, TX campus
• Be a National Certified Counselor, LPC, MSW, CPC, or Certified School Counselor licensed to practice in Texas or eligible & willing to transfer license to TX

About Alpha School

Want to build better schools? Join the thriving community of Alpha. Alpha is a network of K-12 schools in Texas committed to redefining the way kids learn. Change starts with our three promises to students:

• Students love school.
• Students learn two times faster than in a traditional school.
• Students learn life skills.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with Crossover

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $30 USD/hour, which equates to $60,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

What to expect next:

• You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
• Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.

Important! If you do not receive an email from us:

• Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
• Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
• If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4917-US-Virginia-ElementaryScho1.001