Hiring Manager: Matt Rowe
email: [email protected]
phone: 801-610-8288
starting 1/01/2025
Alpine Adult Education Program Supervisor
Job Summary
The Program Supervisor for Adult Education will lead and oversee all aspects of the district's Adult Education program, ensuring high-quality delivery of GED preparation, high school completion, and ESL instruction. This role involves strategic planning, staff management, student support, applying for grants, and collaboration with district and community partners to expand access to adult learning opportunities. The ideal candidate is a visionary educator with a proven track record in adult education and ready to build on the program's strong foundation and drive innovation in response to evolving community needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Program Leadership and Development: Oversee teachers who prepare adult students for GED prep, high school diploma completion, and ESL classes; monitor program effectiveness through data analysis and student outcomes; identify opportunities for program expansion.
- Staff Supervision and Development: Recruit, train, and evaluate a team of instructors and support staff; conduct performance reviews, professional development sessions, and foster a collaborative team culture; oversee scheduling, and compliance with district HR policies.
- Student Services and Enrollment Track enrollment, retention, and completion rates to improve support systems.
- Budget and Resource Management: Manage the program's annual budget: secure grants and alternative funding; procure materials, technology, while adhering to district fiscal guidelines.
- Compliance and Reporting: Ensure adherence to state and federal regulations (e.g., Utah State Board of Education standards, WIOA guidelines); prepare reports for district administration, maintain accurate records in systems or district databases.
Job Description
The Secondary Counselor works under the direction of the school principal and is supported by the Director of Counseling. The role of the school counselor is to implement a comprehensive, equity-focused, data-driven school counseling program that supports all students in their academic, career, and social/emotional development as they prepare students for success in the next stage of their lives. The ASD Counselor Contract is 195 days at 8 hours/day.
Job Duties
Secondary counselors implement a comprehensive counseling program and carry out the core counseling competencies as outlined by Utah Board Rule R277-464:
College and Career Readiness - School counselors help students establish a foundation in college and career readiness by helping them identify their interests, abilities, and skills as well as explore educational and career opportunities, expectations, or requirements. In the secondary setting this includes facilitating individual and group meetings that provide student academic planning and goal setting (CCRs) and college and career exploration activities.
Collaborative Classroom Instruction - School counselors teach the School Counseling Curriculum in alignment with Utah Core Standards, College and Career Readiness Student Mindsets and Competencies, Alpine District Vision for Learning, and Social & Emotional Well-Being Framework (Mind Up, Pure Edge, RULER).
Systemic Approach to Dropout Prevention - School Counselors provide assistance and support to students during times of transition, critical change, or other situations impeding student success. This includes, but is not limited to collaborating with families, teachers, administrators, and the community for student success, advocating for all students at student-focused meetings (SST, IEP, 504, etc.), analyzing data to identify student needs, issues, and challenges and working under the direction of administrators to improve equity and access, attainment, achievement and opportunities for all students.
Social and Emotional Supports - School counselors support the social and emotional wellbeing of students by providing short-term individual counseling and small group counseling, crisis response, as well as implementation of suicide prevention programs.
Systemic Program Management - School counselors provide indirect student services to effectively implement a comprehensive, systemic school counseling program and promote equity and access for all students through consultation, collaboration, and referrals.
In addition to these critical competencies, school counselors schedule students using the district SIS system, assist the administration in building school climate and culture, and perform other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s Degree in School Counseling and current USBE certification
High levels of confidence in interpersonal skills, collaboration, coaching and mentoring
Ability and experience consulting with administrators, teachers, parents, and other professionals about student concerns, prevention and intervention strategies
Experience facilitating groups, public speaking, and conflict resolution
Experience in working with students directly in addressing a wide range of student behaviors
Knowledge and expertise in implementing a high functioning counseling program in a secondary setting
