High School Counselor

Job Title

Counselor

High School

Principal

April, 2025

Under the direction of the building principal, the counselor works as a team with the school, parents, and the community to provide a complete, developmental counseling program focusing on academic, career, and personal/social development; coordinating and managing special programs and projects focused on college and career opportunities; developing plans and/or providing information regarding students’ goals; ensuring completion of students’ applications within designated time frame;

and creating an atmosphere to meet student needs through prevention, identification and intervention.

• Possession of a bachelor’s degree or higher degree.
• Prior counseling experience in a school setting.
• State Certification which enables applicant to serve as a school counselor.
• Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with school administration, students, and parents.
• Must have excellent organizational skills along with the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

• Advise and counsels students in the areas of academic, educational, and in personal/social development.
• Counsels students, parents, or guardians in individual and/or group sessions for the purpose of enhancing student success in school.
• Planning and/or promoting programs which enhance the academic, social or emotional growth of students.
• Consistently uses a variety of instructional strategies that consider diverse student needs and learning differences while engaging all students.
• Provides guidance counseling to students through planned activities in individual, small group, or classroom settings to convey educational, social, and important school information, and offers workshops/seminars for parents.
• Consults, facilitates, and maintains communication with parents, teachers, administrators, and pertinent agents on specific student and parent academic and educational matters including academic modifications and/or accommodations.
• Provides feedback and recommends appropriate action and solutions to individual student’s academic and educational needs and abilities.
• Provide appropriate test applications and interpretations.
• Create, coordinate, and/or assist with 504 plans and meetings.
• Participates on the MTSS team, identifies students who may need targeted or intensive services, and coordinates with the intervention support team.
• Assists students/parents in understanding school policies and procedures.
• Provides brief counseling to address social and emotional concerns and appropriately refers students to the intervention support team.
• Supports and attends appropriate student activities and events.
• Develop and maintain skills needed to utilize technology systems and participate in professional development activities.
• Develop a network of community resources for parents, students, and staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Per the LEA Master Agreement

• Excellent written and verbal communication, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, willingness to learn.
• Knowledge of records administration and maintenance techniques and procedures.
• Knowledge of productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, Google, Student Database, etc.
• Skills to effectively communicate with a variety of stakeholders, both orally and in writing.
• Skills necessary to integrate and utilize district technology on a daily basis to maintain proficiency, as required skill sets change with technology and or the needs of the district.
• Ability to explain and demonstrate appropriate teaching techniques.
• Ability to set and meet goals evaluated through ongoing and annual administrator feedback and achievement of objectives and agree upon professional/personal goals.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external contacts.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

Positions regularly supervises students.

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