Middle School Counselor (Female)

Contract Length: ‎2 years
Number of Vacancies: ‎1
Student Level:
* Elementary, Middle School
Eligible Candidates:
* Licensed Teacher, College/University Faculty
Requirements:
* Education Required: Bachelor
* Minimum Teaching Experience: ‎1 year of teaching experience
* Major: Psychology
Qualifications:
* Counseling
* Referral series: self, teacher, parent, school resource personnel, and administrators
* Issues of a 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 about 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 students in danger of failing for the year
* Schedule and chair parent conferences
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:
Provide a comprehensive guidance program for middle school students in grades
‎5 - ‎8; specifically, provide activities to meet the needs of the assigned
caseload; consult with teachers, staff, and parents to enhance the
effectiveness in helping students, and provide support to the school
educational programs.
AAG has been in existence since ‎1996 providing educational programs to Kuwaiti
girls. AAG is a single-gender school for girls that uses an American
curriculum that is aligned with Common Core Standards to prepare all students
for success in Early Childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels,
university, careers, and community leadership.
We have ‎975 total students enrolled in our school. All our core subjects:
English, Math, Science, and Social Studies are taught in English as the
primary language except for Arabic, Religion, and Koran classes which are
taught in Arabic and the curriculum comes from the Ministry of Education. Our
school offers an array of opportunities academically including AP courses and
extra-curriculum activities such as Athletics, M.U.N., Academic Games, After-
school clubs, etc.