Position Title: Secondary Counselor

Salary Grade: Salary and work year to be determined by contract. Days 210

Department: Administrative

Job Code:

Division: Curriculum and Professional Development

FLSA Status:

Reports to: Principal and Assistant Principal

Last Updated: 08/2009

General Summary: 

The Secondary Counselor helps 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 men and women.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•  Aids students in course and subject selection.
• Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations.
•  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.
• Works to discover and develop special abilities of students.
• Works to resolve students' educational handicaps.
• 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 student evaluate career interests and choices.
• 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 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 community activities.
• Maintains student records, and protects confidentiality.
• Initiates, assembles, maintains, and interprets accurate health records, attendance records,cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students.
• Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarship, and employment applications.
• Makes recommendations to colleges for admission and scholarships.
• Provides student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the Board's policy on student records.
• Confers with parents whenever necessary.
• Assists in the orientation of new faculty members.
• Provides in-service training in guidance for teachers and student teachers.
• Works with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general range of services offered by the personnel services department, and to improve the educational prospects of individual students being counseled.
• Advises administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline.
• 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 annual career day.
• Registers students.
• Works to secure scholarships for students.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or the Superintendent's designee.

Contacts and Communication

Education and Experience

·          Certificate, license, or other legal credential required.

·          Bachelor Degree or higher (s) required and area of major study.

·          Kind and amount of prior job experience required.

·          Such alternative to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Hours of Work and Working Conditions

Physical Demands