Counselor Columbia​/Rainbow

Counselor - 187 days (Columbia/Rainbow)

Madison City Schools (AL) Columbia Elementary - Madison, Alabama. This job is also posted in Madison City Schools (AL).

Job : 5713839

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: May 14, 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

Exempt

Principal or Appropriate Supervisor

( 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 oral and written language to present ideas simply and clearly to students, teachers, and parents.
• Ability to speak in a well‑modulated voice audible to all students in a regular classroom environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts and skills in the school counseling program.
• Ability to create interest through materials, techniques and methods appropriate to the varying abilities and backgrounds of individual students.
• Skills in using 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.
• 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 test 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 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…