High School Counselor

Contract Length: ‎2 years
Number of Vacancies: ‎1
Student Level:
* High School
Eligible Candidates:
* Licensed Teacher
Requirements:
* Education Required: Bachelor
* Minimum Teaching Experience: ‎1 year of teaching experience
* Major: Psychology
* Required Certificates:
Teaching Credential/License
Other Certification
* Bachelor's degree in Psychology preferable with certification in school Guidance Counseling.
* A minimum ‎1 year of teaching students experience
* Evidence of interpersonal relations skills i.e. dealing with parents, students and teachers
* Ability to read & write English with clarity
Job Benefits:
End of service indemnity: Half a month's salary for each year taught at AAG
for the first ‎5 years of service to be received upon completion of service
Relocation allowance: ‎120 KD, payable upon arrival
Personal days: ‎3 per academic year (‎10 KD paid for each day not used at the
end of the year)
Sick leave: ‎6 per academic year
Contract: Paid over ‎12 months including school holidays with pay
Emergency leave: Handled case by case
Bereavement leave: Five days with pay/five days without pay for immediate
family members
Airline ticket: Provided to and from your point of origin every summer
Extra baggage allowance: ‎65 KD
Housing: Furnished apartment (‎2 bedrooms) with phone, free utilities, and
cable TV
Transportation: Provided to and from school
Medical care: Subsidized private (‎90% paid by Board) health insurance
Professional Dev: Provided by the school
Dependents: Discounted tuition for dependents
Job Description:
Counseling:
* Referral series: self, teacher, parent, school resource personnel, and administrators.
* Issues of personal/social nature such as peer relationships, goal-setting, problem-solving, time management.
* Academic concerns such as classroom difficulties, course selection, academic planning and expectations, and study skills.
* Organize and instruct Character Education Curriculum where needed.
Academic Planning:
* Develop a comprehensive School Guidance Program.
* Provide teachers with pertinent information of students with specific problems (health, personal, learning disabilities, psychological problems, etc.).
* Administer MAP assessment tests.
* Meet with teachers about class placement for the upcoming school year.
* Identify student in danger of failing for the year.
* Schedule and chair parent conferences.
* Document students who are in support programs.
* Schedule/attend parent conferences with principal concerning students who are not performing up to grade level.
* Advise parents on summer school.
* Administer standardized testing.
Administrative/Interdepartmental:
* Maintain school calendar.
* Maintain/ safeguard student files (counseling office).
* Develop class list/schedules.
* Initiate referrals for psychological counseling/assessment.
* Liaison with psychologist.
* Attend counselor's network meetings once per month.
* Develop/maintain tutor list. Match tutor with student.
New students:
* Administer entrance testing to all new student applicants.
* Provide orientation for in-coming, new-to-the-school students.
* Place in-coming students in appropriate grade level in consultation with Principal