School Counselor - K-5; Elementary

Position Type:
Student Support Services / Guidance Counselor

Date Posted: 6/24/2026

Job Description Position: K-5

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Reports to:

Lower School Principal

Guidance counselors promote student success, provide preventive services, and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development for all students.

• Discusses the comprehensive school counseling program with the school administrator.
• Develops and maintains a written plan for effective delivery of the school counseling program based on the NC Comprehensive School Counseling Standard Course of Study and current individual school data.
• Communicates the goals of the comprehensive school counseling program to education stakeholders.
• Maintains current and appropriate resources for education stakeholders.
• Implements developmentally appropriate and prevention-oriented group activities to meet student needs and school goals.
• Individual Student Planning
  • Assists all students, individually or in groups, with developing academic, career and personal/social skills, goals and plans.
  • Accurately and appropriately interprets and utilizes student data.
  • Collaborates with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational and career planning.
• Preventive and Responsive Services
  • Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
  • Consults and collaborates effectively with parents/guardians, teachers, administrators and other educational/community resources regarding students with identified concerns and needs.
  • Implements an effective referral and follow-up process.
  • Accurately and appropriately uses assessment procedures for determining and structuring individual and group counseling services.
• System Support
  • Provides appropriate information to staff related to the comprehensive school counseling program.
  • Assists teachers, parents/guardians and other stakeholders in interpreting and understanding student data.
  • Participates in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills.
  • Uses available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program.
  • Adheres to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
• Accountability
  • Conducts a program audit to review the extent of program implementation annually.
  • Analyzes and collects data to guide program direction and emphasis.
  • Measures results of the school counseling programs/activities and shares results as appropriate.
  • Monitors student academic performance, behavior and attendance and assists with appropriate interventions.

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Ability to reason, make judgments, and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to utilize positive human relation skills with all staff.
• Skills in keyboarding with accuracy at the necessary speed for the position.
• Skills in operating a computer with word processing, spreadsheet, and desktop publishing applications.
• Knowledge of office practices and procedures.
• Ability to compile and summarize information.
• Ability to resolve problem situations with sound judgment.
• Ability to demonstrate proper telephone etiquette.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in matters relating to the school system.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and initiative in completing work assignments.
• Knowledge of business letter writing memos.
• Ability to compose correspondences independently.
• Ability to work in the absence of supervision.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Any other assigned duties.

• Quarterly Assemblies
• Intervention
• Weekly teacher meetings
• Field Trips
• Grown-up Talks

A valid North Carolina school counselor's license representing intensive coursework in the principals and practices of educational counseling; educational testing and measurement; the organization and administration of guidance services; and the psychology of…