Position: School Counselor
Location: Miami FL
Duration: FullTime
Salary: DOE
Description
The client is seeking a School Counselor to join its growing faculty for the school year. Must be comfortable being in person on campus with students.
Qualifications
- Masters degree (or higher) in school counseling/guidance or education.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Gifted Endorsement is a plus.
- Experience with socialemotional learning curriculum is recommended.
- Ability to work across various academic disciplines.
- Strong dedication to supporting student success.
- Passionate about education.
- Experience in private independent schools is a plus.
- Forwardthinking and uptodate with best practices.
- Solutionoriented with strong problemsolving skills.
Responsibilities
- Support students socialemotional development through individual smallgroup and wholegroup instruction.
- Lead professional development sessions on socialemotional learning for faculty.
- Provide educational resources and guidance to parents.
- Assist with afterschool and enrichment programs for students.
- Understand the academic and socialemotional needs of gifted and diverse learners.
- Oversee student support services including speech therapy occupational therapy and gifted education.
- Act as the primary point of contact for parents coordinating and facilitating meetings.
- Collect necessary input from parents teachers learning specialists guidance counselors and other professionals in preparation for parent meetings.
- Monitor students academic and socialemotional progress.
- Lead the creation of materials to address the academic and social needs of specific learners.
- Commit to ongoing professional growth as a lifelong learner.
- Build strong working relationships with students faculty staff and parents.
- Refer students for academic/psychological testing or personal and family counseling as needed.
- Address faculty concerns and provide support for individual student issues.
- Coordinate standardized testing.