Academic Counselor

Job Details

• Title:
  
  Academic Counselor )
• Job
• Position Type:
  Student Support Services / Guidance Counselor
• Location:
  
  Zavala Elementary
• Reports To:
  
  Campus Principal
• Final date to receive applications:
  Open Until Filled
• Work Year: 190 days
• Salary Range: $56,812 - $81,751 (SO3)
• Wage/Hour Status:
  Exempt

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.

• Education / Certification
  • A master's degree in counseling from an accredited college or university
  • Valid Texas counseling certificate
• Special Knowledge
  • 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
• Experience
  • Three years teaching experience required

• Plans school guidance and counseling programs to ensure that identified objectives are met.
• Develops, coordinates and continuously evaluates the overall effectiveness of the guidance program.
• Educates the school staff, parents and community about the guidance services via meetings, school newsletters, and presentations.
• Compiles, maintains, and files all required reports, records and documents.
• Works 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.
• Teaches the school guidance curriculum components through the use of effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
• Works 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 by 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…