Elementary School Counselor

7 months ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Teach Away Full time

Contract Length: 2 years

Number of Vacancies: 1

Student Level:

- Early Childhood, Elementary
- University Graduate

**Requirements**:

- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience
- Major: Counseling, Psychology, Social Work
- Required Certificates:
- Teaching Credential/License- Other Certification**Desired Qualities**:

- Knowledge of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
- Commitment to Equity: Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education.
- Leadership: Coaches, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging situations.
- Focus on Data-Driven Results: Relentlessly pursues the improvement of central office performance and school leadership, instruction, and operations, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains.
- Innovative Problem-Solving: Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving; takes initiative to explore issues and find potential innovative solutions.
- Adaptability: Excels in constantly changing environments and adapts flexibly in shifting projects or priorities to meet the needs of a dynamic transformation effort; comfortable with ambiguity and non-routine situations.
- Teamwork: Increases the effectiveness of surrounding teams through collaboration, constant learning, and supporting others; sensitive to diversity in all its forms; respects and is committed to learning from others
- Dependability: Does whatever it takes to consistently deliver high quality under tight deadlines; successfully manages own projects through strong organization, detailed work plans, and balancing of multiple priorities.
- Communication and Customer Service Skills: Communicates clearly and compellingly with diverse stakeholders in both oral and written forms; anticipates and responds to customer needs in a high-quality and courteous manner.

Job Benefits:

- Tax-Free Salary
- Small School Environment
- Full Medical Insurance Provided for the Employee
- Tuition Discount for One Dependent
- Company Sponsored Visa
- Relocation Assistance

**Job Description**:
The Elementary School Counselor/Social Worker reports to the Vice Principal of Elementary Education while receiving technical assistance, guidance, and instruction from the building principal. Additionally, the Elementary School Counselor/Social Worker works closely with faculty and staff of North American International School, NAIS administration, various social services agencies, and governmental bodies of the United Arab Emirates.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

**Development and Management**:

- Uses data to develop and inform the school counseling program and evaluates the program’s impact on the school’s instructional goals.
- Collaborates on the development and management of the comprehensive school counseling program with the school administrator or instructional leader.
- Communicates and share the goals of the comprehensive school counseling program with stakeholders including students, families, and community partners.
- Develops and maintains a written plan for effective delivery of the school counseling programs based on the American School Counseling Association (ASCA) National Standards for School Counseling Programs.

**Preventative and Responsive Services**:

- Designs, implements, and assesses the guidance curriculum.
- Utilizes responsive counseling, initiating individual and group sessions for students’ personal, social, and academic concerns.
- Consults with families and staff to appraise student needs and interests and to discuss appropriate recommendations for educational options.
- Plans, coordinates, and provides classroom group guidance sessions to meet the identified guidance and counseling competencies in the areas of academic achievement, career and educational development, and personal and social development.
- Assesses student needs and makes referrals to appropriate school resource personnel, social agencies, community agencies, and alternative programs.
- Intervenes during crises and participates on the school crisis team.

**Individual Student Planning**:

- Prepares students for the transition to the next level: middle school, activities, and options.
- Plans and coordinates programs such as career fairs, test preparation, improved/perfect attendance celebrations, and other extensions of the counseling program.
- Uses individual student planning activities and classroom guidance to assist students in navigating educational and community experiences that support their needs and develop their potential.
- Collaborates with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational and career planning.

**System Support**:

- Uses responsive counseling strategies to establish relationships and collaborate with edu



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