JOB DESCRIPTION
Position: High School Counselor
Reports to: Principal
Site: School Site
FLSA Status: ProfessionalExempt
Contract Length: 198 days for School Year 2024-25
Salary: Depends on education and experience
Purpose: Provide comprehensive guidance program for students and specifically provide activities to meet the needs of the assigned case load; consult with teachers, staff, and parents to enhance their effectiveness in helping students, and provide support to other high school educational progress.
Minimum Qualifications:
A Master’s degree in counseling or counselor endorsement related field;
A Valid Teachers and School Counselors License with proper endorsement;
Five years of experience in Counselor preferred;
Verifiable demonstrated progressive leadership experience;
Working knowledge of Student Assistance Team and Response to Intervention helpful;
Ability to use age appropriate language and accompanying techniques with adolescents on one-to-one basis as well as groups;
Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets general counseling journals, reports, and governmental regulations;
Ability to write reports, keep logs, correspondence and maintain confidential information;
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of teachers, clients, parents, committees, and the general public;
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists;
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, and schedule form;
Must have strong verbal and written communication;
Strong communication, organization, and technology skills;
Ability to build effective relationships with students, community, parents, staff and general public.
Essential Duties:
- Counsels groups or individual students through the development of educational and career plans and 4-year school plans;
- Counsel small groups and individual students with problems, refer severe problems to appropriate community resources;
- Performs counseling with individual students to correct those personal, social, or emotional maladjustments related to their educational and social progress;
- Consults with teachers, staff, and parents regarding meeting and developmental needs of students;
- Evaluates and revises the building counseling program;
- Conduct counseling activities in the classroom in the conjunction with administration and teachers;
- Consult with teachers to facilitate the infusion of counseling activities into the regular education curricula.
- Provides orientation for students new to the school;
- Counsel/Guide students and parents in use of test results for education/career planning;
- Responds to crisis situations when appropriate;
- May coordinates school-wide testing program;
- May proctor standardized testing;
- Communicates regularly with parents by means of newsletters, notes, phone calls, conferences, etc.;
- Attends eight (8th) grade orientation at Middle School, College Night, Honors Night Program, evening parent meetings, and other parent information meeting as needed;
- Maintains all transcripts, academic records, progress reports, report cards, enrollment, dis-enrollments, re-enrollment and dropout reports;
- Develops schedules for all students;
- Meets all the NM PED Competencies for Counselors
- Servers as a resource to district personnel and as a liaison to various agencies (e.g. district committees, interagency boards) for the purpose of explaining procedures conveying and/or receiving information as needed for the purpose of explaining procedures conveying services related to special education.
- Assists other personnel as may be required for the purpose of sporting them in the completion of their work activities.
- Perform other duties as assigned;
Physical Functions:
- Ability to sit, talk and hear for long periods of time;
- Ability to use repetitive hand, arm and finger motions;
- Ability to attend meetings during the day and in the evening at various locations in and out of the District;
- Travel as necessary to conferences, seminars, trainings and meetings;
- Ability to read information in various formats, research information and present information in oral and written form;
- Ability to speak publically to groups of different sizes and discuss issues at hand;
- Ability to lift up to 40 pounds occasionally, 20 pounds frequently; May lift up to 150 pounds with the assistance of another employee, some carrying;
- Ability to push and pull individuals in wheel chairs;
- Ability to walk for short distances on even and uneven surfaces;
- Ability to work in an office environment with varying temperatures and noises;
- Ability to operate equipment with finger and eye coordination;
- Ability to disperse medications according to doctor’s orders;
- May be exposed to human fluids and fecal material;
Mental Functions:
- Ability to handle stress;
- Ability to handle difficult people and difficult situations; work on conflict resolution and problem solving;
- Ability to lead people in creating, brainstorming, team building and project management;
- Ability to access situations, make decisions and provide direction;
- Ability to utilize mathematical strategies and analysis;
- Ability to organize data, tests, information and disseminate to appropriate venue;
- Ability to monitor projects, assignments, and data to ensure work is being completed correctly and meets timelines;
- Ability to analyze data, provide input and articulate the need for changes.
- Ability to connect with people with disabilities;
Essential Equipment:
- Ability to operate phone, fax, computer, scanner, printer, calculator, smart board, etc.;
- Ability to operate a vehicle;