Senior Director of Counseling and Wellness - Drew Charter School

Join the Drew Charter School Community

At Drew, we are a unified Pre-K through 12 community where every individual is welcomed, valued, and belongs. We foster a joyful, restorative environment that balances academic focus with a commitment to innovation and celebrated growth. By centering our impact within the Villages of East Lake and serving a diverse student body, we create results that ripple across Metro Atlanta and beyond.

Working at Drew means being part of a thriving educational community dedicated to both student success and professional excellence. We offer our staff:

A Culture of Belonging: Join a mission-driven environment rooted in "Eagle Pride" that embraces differences and unity.

Empowerment & Innovation: We prioritize a talent strategy that values and empowers staff to lead with creativity and excellence.

Purpose-Driven Impact: Contribute to a strategic vision where staff are supported in cultivating resilient, community-minded, and self-aware graduates.

Collaborative Excellence: Work within a cohesive system that clarifies academic expectations and fosters meaningful relationships with families to accelerate student success.

Position Description

The Senior Director of Counseling and Wellness supports the alignment of the PK-12 counseling and wellness programming across all Drew academies. This programming includes oversight of counseling, social work, student mental health, crisis management, on-time graduation/academic support, college/career readiness, post-secondary counseling, school-wide attendance, and alumni engagement. Additionally, responsible for helping guide and collaborate on the direction of programming and ultimately ensure the team is supported and the programs are effective.

Supervisory Responsibilities

- Supervisory Responsibility: Single department

- Supervisory Activities: Budgeting, Buying, Developing or coaching, Directing, Disciplining, Evaluating Performance, Hiring, Orienting or Onboarding, Promoting, Scheduling, Training, Approving timecards or time off requests.

- Budget Signing Authority: Up to $1,500.

- Decision-making Authority: Decisions impact the entire organization.

Qualifications

Required

- Education: Masters or EdS in School Counseling/Social Work/Counseling related field

- Licensure: School Counselor’s License, Driver’s license to travel between job sites.

- Previous Work-Related Experience: 7-9 years

Preferred

- Licensure: School Counselor’s License, Driver’s license to travel between job sites.

- Certificates, Certifications, or Other Training: College Admissions Training/Certificate, Staff/Mental Health Wellness Training, College board Test Administrator Training, Suicide Intervention Skills, Leadership Certification

Knowledge & Skills

Basic:

- Administrative: Administrative and office procedures, functions, and basic office tasks.

Intermediate:

- Computers/IT: Electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

- Human Resources: Recruitment, selection, compensation and benefits, labor relations, and HR information systems.

- Accounting: Accounting principles, practices, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

Advanced:

- Education/Training: Principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction, and measuring training effects.

- Law/Government: Local, state, and national laws and government regulations.

Expert:

- Management: Business/management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership and coordination of people and resources.

- Customer and Personal Service: Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

- Health Services: Treating and preventing disease and improving and preserving physical and mental health and well-being.

- Safety/Security: Equipment, policies, and procedures for the protection of people, data, property, and the organization.

Working Conditions

Physical Demands

Constantly (more than 5.6 hours or 69% of the day): Walking, Constantly, Color Vision

Frequently (Between 2.6 hours and 5.5 hours or 33% to 68% of the day): Sitting, Climbing, Finger Dexterity

Occasionally (Up to 2.5 hours or 32% of the day): Standing

Rarely: (Less than 1 hour or 12% of the day): Crouching/Kneeling, Reaching, Repetitive Motion

Mental and Psychological Demands:

High demands: The job requires significant mental effort and involves high levels of stress (e.g., frequent need to deal with difficult customers or manage emotions when interacting with others, often working under tight deadlines, exposure to public criticism, regularly requiring extended periods of concentration on complex tasks).

 Work Type/Physical Demands

Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

 Working Environment

Everyday risk and discomfort level: The environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, libraries, residences, or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated.

EEO Statement

Drew Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, or sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity and other characteristics protected by law.