Guidance Counselor - Frances Nungester

Job Title

Counsels individuals and provides group educational and vocational guidance services by performing the following duties.

• Collects, organizes, and analyzes information about individuals through records, tests, interviews, and professional sources to appraise their interests, aptitudes, abilities, and personality characteristics for vocational and educational planning.
• Provides appropriate individual and group counseling and guidance.
• Implements an effective personal and professional growth plan.
• Exhibits positive human relations skills.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive records and reports.
• Utilizes and coordinates community resources in addressing the needs of students.
• Organizes and conducts events.
• Exhibits professional moral and ethical values and leadership.
• Engages in research and follow-up activities to evaluate counseling techniques.
• Teaches classes.
• Complies with local, state, and federal policies, regulations, and laws affecting areas of responsibility and the American School Counselor Association Code of Ethics.
• Organizes and assists in test administration and evaluation.
• Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Other duties as assigned.

• 9-Month Contract

• Master's degree (M.A.) with an Alabama Rank I certificate with an endorsement in Guidance and Counseling. Must have three years of successful teaching experience at the elementary school level.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret periodicals, professional journals, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports and other correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of students, parents, and the general public.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

• Alabama Class A Certificate with an endorsement in Guidance and Counseling.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of up to 6 hours and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, bend, squat, climb stairs, crouch, and kneel.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. The employee is occasionally required to push, pull, lift, carry, and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• The level increases to very loud when supervising large group activities.

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website.
• Verification of previous public school teaching experience is necessary to compute your annual salary.
• The Decatur City Board of Education awards a salary based on the highest degree earned.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.