Counselor, Guidance Counselor: Social​/Educational, Education ​/ Teaching

Counselor - 187 days Job Details

Job : 5759129

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Jun 03, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: To Be Determined

Job Goal: To help students achieve personal fulfillment by providing them with guidance and counseling services to make successful personal, educational and occupational life plans.

• A Master's degree
• Alabama State Department of Education Teaching Certificate
• School Counselor Certification, required
• At least three years successful teaching experience required
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports To: Principal or Appropriate Supervisor

Background Check

Required:

Ala. Code §§ 16-22A-5. Upon offer of employment, employees will be required to submit legible fingerprints for a background review by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Background checks must not be more than 10 years old.

• Skills in the use of oral and written language in order to present ideas simply and clearly to students, teachers, and parents.
• Ability to speak in a well-modulated voice that can be heard by all students in a regular classroom environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts, and skills in the school counseling program.
• Ability to create interest through the use of materials, techniques, and methods appropriate to the varying abilities and backgrounds of individual students.
• Skills in the use of evaluation instruments consistent with the goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and implement the school testing program.
• Skills in individual and group counseling for the purpose of identifying and helping students with special needs.
• Possesses the physical and emotional stability to fulfill the contract period.

• Implements the appropriate grade level comprehensive counseling and guidance program curriculum: Conducts guidance learning activities in the classroom for each grade level during the year in collaboration with the teaching staff; consults with and is a resource to teachers to facilitate the infusion of counseling content into the regular education curriculum.
• Guides and counsels groups and individual students through the development of educational and career plans: Collaborates with appropriate school personnel to assist students in making a smooth transition from elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school; provides orientation activities for incoming students and their parents; informs students and parents of tests results and their implications for educational planning;
  
  provides resources and coordinates the implementation of personal, social, educational, and career learning activities; provides individual assistance to students regarding personal, social, educational, and career issues.
• Counsels small groups and individual students: Conducts structured, goal-oriented counseling sessions to meet the identified needs of individuals and groups of students.
• Consults and collaborates with administrators, teachers, staff, and parents in understanding and meeting the needs of students: Participates in staff and team meetings; plans and conducts staff development programs and activities; facilitates conferences with teachers and/or parents and or students; assists families with school-related problems and issues.
• Refers students with problems and parents to appropriate specialists, special programs, or outside agencies: Consults and collaborates with school system specialists such as school psychologists, social workers, and nurses; consults with and refers to community-based resources, including psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, service agencies, and others.
• Participates in activities that contribute to the effective operation of the school: Cooperates and collaborates with other professionals in enhancing the education of students; establishes and maintains effective relationships with grade levels or departments and administrators; cooperates with other school personnel in placing students with special needs in appropriate programs; interprets group test results to faculty and administration for use in enhancing instruction;
  
  communicates with administrators, teachers, staff, students, parents, and the community regarding the counseling and guidance program and its role in the educational program; participates in the implementation of the school system assessment program.
• Plans, evaluates, and revises the counseling and guidance program: Reviews the counseling and guidance program annually with the counseling and guidance department staff and counseling and guidance program advisory committee; communicates regularly with other counseling and guidance staff to establish and maintain a sequential comprehensive counseling and guidance program; identifies student needs periodically and uses the results for program…