Counselor - HS Campus

Counselor – HS Campus

Katy ISD FREEMAN HIGH – Katy, Texas

• Job : 5801931
• Final date to receive applications: Jul 02, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)
• Posted: Jun 25, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)
• Starting Date: Immediately
• Duty Days: 21 Days High School
• Wage/Hour Status: Exempt
• Pay Grade: I01
• Position Type: Full-Time

Reports To: Principal

Primary

Purpose:

The school counselor uses leadership, advocacy and collaboration to meet students’ developmental, educational, and social‑emotional needs while supporting school staff. The guidance and counseling program is comprised of four components: guidance curriculum, individual planning, responsive services, and system support. Guidance curriculum is delivered through groups to promote effective growth and development. Individual planning provides assistance to students as they work to meet personal, academic, and career goals.

Responsive services address immediate concerns. System support allows for the development, maintenance, and improvement of the school counseling program and the school community as a whole.

• Provide large and small group guidance lessons, including classroom guidance.
• Conduct small student counseling groups to address specific needs.
• Coordinate peer programs, selecting, instructing, and supervising students serving as peer mentors.
• Assist students in exploring, selecting, and following through on options to achieve life goals.
• Help students explore individual interests through self‑assessments, inventories, interviews, and processing personal information.
• Conduct group counseling sessions for students experiencing difficulty with normal developmental tasks.
• Deliver empathetic individual counseling to identify problems, causes, potential solutions, and appropriate actions.
• Consult with parents, teachers, school personnel, and community agencies regarding strategies to address and resolve student concerns.
• Maintain and disseminate current information related to self‑exploration, post‑secondary and career information, and community resources to students and parents; provide referral sources.
• Develop the campus counseling program by assessing student, faculty, and community needs and designing a program to address those needs.
• Collect and use data to evaluate the counseling program, determine efficacy, identify growth areas, and recommend changes.
• Plan and implement staff development related to counseling and social‑emotional learning.
• Develop appropriate materials for staff development, classroom guidance, and group counseling sessions, consistent with program goals.
• Plan and lead guidance programs for parents, including information dissemination and skill building.
• Provide high‑quality customer service to assist students and promote the school counseling program.

• Master’s degree in Counselor Education.
• Valid Texas counseling certificate.
• Minimum three years of classroom teaching experience.
• Knowledge of counseling theories, ethics, and school counseling procedures, including student appraisal and career development.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior.

Interactive whiteboard, computer, printer, copier, overhead projector, DVD/VCR, cellular phone, and other emerging technologies; instructional and productivity software as required by the assignment.

Maintain emotional control under stress. Moderate lifting may be required.

• Human Resources Department, Receptionist
• HUMAN RESOURCES
• Katy, Texas 77494
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• Email: human resources