Job Title: Secondary
School Counselor
Secondary
School Counselor position is a 10-month position with evening program
requirements.
PURPOSE:
Joliet
Catholic Academy’s Counseling Department delivers a comprehensive,
developmental, results-based school counseling program that promotes and
enhances student success. In concert with our JCA Mission Statement, the
counseling department provides an educational process that calls and challenges
all students to be lifelong learners and grow in faith, knowledge,
understanding and service.
The
School Counselor offers individual counseling and delivers a counseling
curriculum focused on supporting students’ identification and achievement of
academic, college/career, personal, and social-emotional goals. The School
Counselor will demonstrate advocacy, collaboration, and leadership while
promoting and supporting the educational process in our faith-based community
by helping students explore their interests, strengths, abilities, and talents
with an emphasis toward developing a post-secondary plan.
MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS:
- Illinois
Professional Educator License with endorsement in School Counseling
- Successful
classroom teaching experience
- School
Counseling experience in a high school setting preferred
- Willingness
and ability to be engaged in school community serving as a coach, club
moderator, or Student Council/Honor Society sponsor.
GENERAL
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Effectively
deliver the counseling curriculum, utilizing both group and individual
methods.
- Guide
and support all students with developing academic, college/career, and
personal/social skills, goals, and plans.
- Assists
in planning a four-year individual learning plan that includes, but is not
limited to, the selection of courses appropriate to the students’ needs,
interests, social-emotional functioning, academic achievement, and
post-secondary plans.
- Communicate
the goals of the school counseling program to educational stakeholders
through programming, advisory, social media, and other effective means.
- Organize,
coordinate, and program activities to meet the needs of students and
parents in collaboration with team members.
- Monitor,
interpret, and utilize student data to promote academic achievement of
students, including the identification of impact of school counseling
program, needs for program development, and individualized interventions.
- Collaborate
and communicate with teachers, support staff, administrators,
parent/guardians, and outside agencies to assist students with academic,
social-emotional, and college/career planning.
APPLY:
A cover
letter and resume should be addressed to Kathy Major, Director of Counseling,
by email: kmajor@jca-online.org
