School Counselor - KHS

SCHOOL COUNSELOR - KHS

As a School Counselor, you will deliver measurable results in helping students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible members of the community.

Reports to: School Principal

Qualifications: Love what you do, helping students overcome problems and obstacles in education and in general. Must possess a Maine certification and/or license in secondary school guidance. Master's degree with major study in guidance and/or counseling. Previous experience working with secondary school children and staff, including the ability to teach in classroom guidance settings. Ability to maintain confidentiality in the performance of duties.

Responsibilities:

Communication

• Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations.

• Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarship, and employment applications.

• Makes recommendations to colleges for admissions and scholarships.

• Confers with parents whenever necessary.

• Advises administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline.

Leadership

• Remains readily available to students so as to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.

• Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such problems as home and family relations, health, and emotional adjustment.

• Plans guidance field trips to schools, colleges, and industry for interested students.

• Guides students in their participation in school and community activities.

• Assists in the orientation of new faculty members.

• Provides in-service training in guidance for teachers and student teachers.

Organizational

• Maintains student records and protects their confidentiality.

• Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large.

• Interprets the guidance program to the community.

• Organizes and conducts an annual career day.

• Arranges for tutor and summer school work.

Student Centered

• Aids students in course and subject selections.

• Assists students in evaluating their aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and works with students in evolving education and occupation plans in terms of such evaluation.

• Registers students new to the school and orients them to school procedures and the school's varied opportunities for learning.

• Works to prevent students from dropping out of school.

• Helps students evaluate career interests and choices.

• Provides student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the Board's policy on student records.

Competencies

• Coaching orientation: you create impactful individual and district-wide learning experiences

• District representative: you promote our strategies coherently and persuasively; you present our value convincingly and creatively and can defend it when questioned; you balance an aggressive approach with respectful boundaries

• Content mastery: you internalize fully even the most complex content; you can explain the issues confidently and answer questions accurately, comprehensively and instructively

• Relationship-oriented: you recognize the deep importance that relationships with colleagues and stakeholders play in our work; you build rapport and trust with others; you're comfortable with and adept at navigating a diversity of personalities and work styles

• Role model: your performance inspires others; you embody the desired work ethic and/or approach that is required to achieve our district mission; others learn from the high standards you hold for yourself

• Active listener: you're a strong, active listener; you can read body language and between the lines to pick up both on what's being said and what's not being said; you can identify the nuance of what's being suggested, however obliquely, and articulate it strategically for others

Reasonable Accommodations: RSU 21 will provide accommodations to an individual with a disability, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or applicable law, who has made the district aware of their disability, unless doing so would cause an undue hardship to the district.

Terms of Employment: Salary and work year to be established by the Board.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.

Revised Date: 1/1/2022

Date Approved (HR Committee): 1/1/2022