Career Guidance Counselor [USA]

Contract Length: ‎2 years
Number of Vacancies: ‎1
Student Level:
* Middle School, High School
Eligible Candidates:
* University Graduate
Requirements:
* Education Required: Bachelor
* Major: Counseling
Fluent English Speaker.
Job Benefits:
* Tax-free salary paid on a scale linked to teaching experience up to ‎13,000 AED per month
* End-of-service gratuity
* Housing allowance paid to employees for self or furnished hotel apartment
* Joining and departure economy class flights to/from Dubai to the home of record for self
* Annual flights from to home of record [Economy class] for self, taken once during annual leave
* UAE medical insurance for self
* ‎2,000 AED settling-in allowance
* ‎2-year renewable contract with an option for renewal
* Visa processing costs (excluding document certification) for self
* Positions of Additional Responsibility are available for suitable candidates wishing to take on greater roles within the school community
* Excellent career and leadership prospects
Job Description:
Career Guidance Counselor for grades ‎6-‎9 needed for August ‎2023.
Ignite School is recruiting motivated, dynamic, qualified, and experienced
international teachers who are best able to engage our students in creative
and innovative learning. The staff of Ignite School is supported by a peer-led
professional learning community shaped by reflective practice and
collaboration.
Ignite School shapes creative and innovative "21st-century citizens of the
world" through a sustainability-focused, student-centered learning environment
that celebrates diversity. We seek to instill exemplary character and life-
long learning skills in our students through inclusive school life programs
and extracurricular activities that empower and challenge the realization of
potential in each of our learners. Every Ignite School student feels welcome,
accepted, safe, valued, and happy. Host-country national students feel they
have the potential to make a valuable social, cultural and economic
contribution to the well-being of their local community and their country.
The American curriculum is rigorous, relevant, and service-oriented with a
curriculum design that adheres to international best practices. Our inquiry-
based learning model provides a platform for the development of creative
processes that weave together sustainable development, science, mathematics,
[coding and design] technology, analysis, logic, debate and innovation. Our
holistic approach to learning encourages the physical, social, intellectual,
and emotional development of our students through real-world experiences as
well as inside our high-quality learning facilities. With the aid of learning
technology, students develop the 21st-century citizenship skills of critical
thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, cognitive flexibility,
emotional intelligence and creativity.
Interviews are conducted through Zoom/Google Meet/Teams.