224-2025 Secondary Counselor - #1690126

Oklahoma City Public Schools


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Oklahoma City, OK
Contract type: Full time
    JobID: 14985

    Position Type:
    Secondary/Secondary Counselor
    Date Posted:
    4/14/2024
    Location:
    Roosevelt Middle School
    Reports To: Building Administrator
    FSLA Status: Exempt
    Compensation: 016 (Salary determined by education and experience.)
    Work Days: 196
    FTE: 100

    Secondary Counselor

    Position Summary:
    The counselor promotes student success, provides preventive services, and responds to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development of secondary students

    Essential Duties:
    • Develops and manages a comprehensive school counseling program for secondary students.
    • Delivers the counseling curriculum to all students focusing on Academic, Career, and Personal/Social Domains.
    • Designs, delivers, evaluates and revises a planned sequential developmentally appropriate program in accordance to district counseling standards and indicators.
    • Facilitates the infusion of counseling curriculum activities into classroom curricula to support the developmental needs of students.
    • Facilitates instructional process in collaboration with school staff and community resources.
    • Counsels with secondary students to promote self-awareness and positive social and academic skills.
    • Develops, delivers, and evaluates student planning addressing academic goal setting and transition plans.
    • Informs students and parents about pertinent test results, academic programming, behavior intervention strategies, and their implications to the overall academic success.
    • Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
    • Implements a referral process and follow up process to outside counseling agencies and support agencies.
    • Provides information to staff and parents to assist them in crises related issues that may effect the school climate.
    • Consults and coordinates within district professionals and community agencies, such as school psychologist, nurses, administrators, community based counselors, service agencies, and physicians.
    • Manages activities that establish, maintain, support, and enhance the total school counseling system.
    • Advocates for equal access to programs and services for all students.
    • Plans and coordinates programs that are an extension of the counseling program, i.e., Individual Education Plans, Child Study Team, red ribbon week, student of week etc.
    • Coordinates parent programs.
    • Participates in school decision making.
    • Adheres to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
    • Participates with the administration and faculty as a team member in the implementation of the district testing program.
    • Collects and reviews evaluative data to ensure a successful counseling program which links the school counseling program to student academic progress.
    • Measures results of the school counseling program activities and shares results as appropriate.
    • Performs other duties as assigned.
      • To ensure continuity of services, alternative work site may be necessary in the event of a health crisis or disruptive situation that requires the closing of school and/or office buildings. An employee’s eligibility for alternative work site will be determined by the superintendent of schools. Expectations and guidelines for alternative work site will be distributed by the employee’s supervisor, based on his/her role and responsibilities.

    Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required


    Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required):
    • Master’s Degree in counseling or related field.
    • Oklahoma Teaching Certification in Secondary Education in areas listed below or Alternative Teaching Certification as approved by Oklahoma State Department of Education required
      • Secondary Counselor (7-12); School Counselor (PK-12 or All)
    • Must possess ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
    • Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the community.
    • Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others, demonstrate self-discipline and initiative, follow state and district guidelines.

    Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
    The working conditions and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions
    • Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time,
    • Exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer,
    • Ability to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids,
    • Hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone,
    • Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone,
    • Physical agility, able to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach. Ability to lift, push, pull up to 25 pounds


    This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the supervisor or appropriate administrator. Oklahoma City Public Schools reserves the right to, update, revise or change job duties as the need prevails. This document is for communication only and not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment. The Board of Education and Superintendent may approve alternatives to the listed qualifications.


    JobID: 14985

    Position Type:
    Secondary/Secondary Counselor
    Date Posted:
    4/14/2024
    Location:
    Roosevelt Middle School
    Reports To: Building Administrator
    FSLA Status: Exempt
    Compensation: 016 (Salary determined by education and experience.)
    Work Days: 196
    FTE: 100

    Secondary Counselor

    Position Summary:
    The counselor promotes student success, provides preventive services, and responds to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development of secondary students

    Essential Duties:
    • Develops and manages a comprehensive school counseling program for secondary students.
    • Delivers the counseling curriculum to all students focusing on Academic, Career, and Personal/Social Domains.
    • Designs, delivers, evaluates and revises a planned sequential developmentally appropriate program in accordance to district counseling standards and indicators.
    • Facilitates the infusion of counseling curriculum activities into classroom curricula to support the developmental needs of students.
    • Facilitates instructional process in collaboration with school staff and community resources.
    • Counsels with secondary students to promote self-awareness and positive social and academic skills.
    • Develops, delivers, and evaluates student planning addressing academic goal setting and transition plans.
    • Informs students and parents about pertinent test results, academic programming, behavior intervention strategies, and their implications to the overall academic success.
    • Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
    • Implements a referral process and follow up process to outside counseling agencies and support agencies.
    • Provides information to staff and parents to assist them in crises related issues that may effect the school climate.
    • Consults and coordinates within district professionals and community agencies, such as school psychologist, nurses, administrators, community based counselors, service agencies, and physicians.
    • Manages activities that establish, maintain, support, and enhance the total school counseling system.
    • Advocates for equal access to programs and services for all students.
    • Plans and coordinates programs that are an extension of the counseling program, i.e., Individual Education Plans, Child Study Team, red ribbon week, student of week etc.
    • Coordinates parent programs.
    • Participates in school decision making.
    • Adheres to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
    • Participates with the administration and faculty as a team member in the implementation of the district testing program.
    • Collects and reviews evaluative data to ensure a successful counseling program which links the school counseling program to student academic progress.
    • Measures results of the school counseling program activities and shares results as appropriate.
    • Performs other duties as assigned.
      • To ensure continuity of services, alternative work site may be necessary in the event of a health crisis or disruptive situation that requires the closing of school and/or office buildings. An employee’s eligibility for alternative work site will be determined by the superintendent of schools. Expectations and guidelines for alternative work site will be distributed by the employee’s supervisor, based on his/her role and responsibilities.

    Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required


    Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required):
    • Master’s Degree in counseling or related field.
    • Oklahoma Teaching Certification in Secondary Education in areas listed below or Alternative Teaching Certification as approved by Oklahoma State Department of Education required
      • Secondary Counselor (7-12); School Counselor (PK-12 or All)
    • Must possess ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
    • Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the community.
    • Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others, demonstrate self-discipline and initiative, follow state and district guidelines.

    Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
    The working conditions and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions
    • Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time,
    • Exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer,
    • Ability to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids,
    • Hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone,
    • Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone,
    • Physical agility, able to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach. Ability to lift, push, pull up to 25 pounds


    This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the supervisor or appropriate administrator. Oklahoma City Public Schools reserves the right to, update, revise or change job duties as the need prevails. This document is for communication only and not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment. The Board of Education and Superintendent may approve alternatives to the listed qualifications.

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