Academic Counselor

Position Type

Student Support Services/Guidance Counselor

6/23/2026

06/23/2026

Campus Principal

Open Until Filled

190 days

AUG
03, 2021

Exempt

$56,812 Minimum, $81,751 Maximum

SO3

To provide a proactive developmental guidance and counseling program for all students to maximize academic, career, and personal growth. This also includes teaching the abstinence curriculum.

• Master’s degree in counseling from an accredited college or university
• Valid Texas counseling certificate

• Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior
• Ability to present information in one-on-one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents or guardians, and district staff

Three years teaching experience required

• Plan school guidance and counseling programs to ensure that identified objectives are met.
• Develop, coordinate and continuously evaluate the overall effectiveness of the guidance program.
• Educate the school staff, parents and community about the guidance services via meetings, school newsletters, and presentations.
• Compile, maintain, and file all required reports, records and documents.
• Work hand in hand with Social Workers and CPS to better assist students and families.

• Plan, organize, implement, and deliver structured group lessons according to the district’s guidance curriculum to improve students’ interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post-secondary planning and readiness, and other developmental needs.
• Teach the school guidance curriculum components through effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
• Work with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum components. Collaborate across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into content area curriculum.
• Create a balanced curriculum using well-planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.

• Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance and respond to problematic or critical incidents or support students and offer services in time of need.
• Use preventative activities to remove barriers that interfere with a student’s educational, career, personal, and social development.
• Implement remediation practices to assist students in coping with problem situations or unwise choices. Identify precipitating and antecedent factors, effective and ineffective approaches to dealing with the circumstances, and provide feedback to guide future decisions.
• Use specialized skills to support students in crisis situations requiring immediate response. Maintain a healthy and safe school environment by collaborating with district staff, parents or guardians, and local officials.
• Provide continued support to students in need through individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, or referral to services outside the school or district.
• Serve as an impartial, non-reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.

• Create school counseling services that are developmental and age appropriate and provide information or literature that highlights related topics to students, teachers, and administrators.
• Assist individual students and their parents or guardians in monitoring their academic, career, personal, and social development as they progress in school.
• Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent. Advocate for a student environment that acknowledges…