Counselor, School Counseling & Student Support, Education ​/ Teaching

Waller Independent School District Jones Elementary School – Prairie View, Texas

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Job : 5841583

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Jul 20, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Title: Counselor

Wage/Hour Status: Exempt

Reports to: Principal

Pay Grade: AP3

Dept./School: Assigned Campus

Date Revised: 3/12/2025

Work Days: 205 (Secondary) & 197 (Elementary)

Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive school counseling program at the assigned campus. Counsel students to fully develop each student’s academic, career, personal, and social abilities and address the needs of special population students. Deliver guidance curriculum in various group sizes. Educate students on skills necessary to address troublesome circumstances, support students in challenging situations, and assist students with needed resources to navigate crisis situations.

Education/Certification:

Master’s degree in counseling from an accredited college or university

Valid Texas school counselor certificate

Special Knowledge/

Skills:

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

• 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.
• Teach the school guidance curriculum components through effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
• Collaborate with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities for the guidance curriculum component. Integrate guidance lessons across curricular areas.
• Create a balanced curriculum using well-planned activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers and engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.

• Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to respond to problematic or critical incidents to support students and offer services in times of need.
• Use preventive 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, and provide feedback to guide future decisions.
• Respond to crisis situations requiring immediate/urgent support; maintain a healthy and safe school environment in collaboration 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 to students, teachers, and administrators.
• Assist individual students and their parents or guardians in monitoring 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 school environment that acknowledges diversity and ensures equitable access and placement in courses and programs for minority, disenfranchised, homeless, and other special populations.
• Interpret standardized test results, offer career development activities, provide strategies for grade-level transitions, and…