Counselor

**Job Description****:

- Job Title:
- Counselor- School / Location:
- ISG Dammam- School / Department:
- Elementary/Primary- Job Status:
- Full-time- Salary Code:
- Teacher- Work Days / Hours:- Eligible Applicants:
- Saudi National, Dependent- Position Start Date:
- As soon as possible- Application Deadline:
- Until filled- Reports to:
- Shina George, Assistant Principal of Elementary School- Requisition Number:
- 01-2324-084- Summary
- Job Duties

The Counselor is responsible for and accountable to the following:

- Demonstrate a commitment to the safety and security of children and young people (child protection )
- Collaborate around meeting our mission: We inspire innovation and compassionate action
- Communicate and collaborate in a professional manner
- Commit to continual professional learning
- Know and respond to the needs of all students
- Promote agency and innovation in the learning process
- Foster compassion and build relationships amongst all the ISG community
- Contribute to student growth and collaboration
- Contribute to the after-school activities program and to the wider ISG Dammam community
- Espouse creativity and passion in their daily work
- Promote an understanding and appreciation of diverse populations and cultures
- Maintain confidentiality and discretion in responding to sensitive issues, including confidential record keeping
- Work with students, families, & colleagues

**Individual Student Planning**
- Provide social, emotional, and academic counseling for students, individually or in group sessions, on as needed basis
- Assist students and families with school transitions (new students, departing students, transitioning from elementary to middle school, etc.)
- Use student data to support decision-making in designing effective interventions and counseling services

**Responsive Services**
- Participate on the Crisis Management Team on and as needed basis
- Provide intervention/support in crisis situations
- Serve as the Child Protection Deputy in responding to and managing all child protection concerns
- Refer students and their parents, as needed, to appropriate specialists, special programs and/or outside agencies

**System Support**
- Consult and advise on admissions and placement decisions for students on an as-needed basis
- Consult and collaborate with teachers, families and the administration to provide academic, social and emotional support for students
- Provide information and skills to parents, school staff, administration and the community to assist them in helping students in academic and social development
- Conduct in-service training for other stakeholders to share school counseling expertise

**Delivery of Counseling Curriculum**
- Collaborate with administrators and counselors across the District to design, implement and deliver a comprehensive, developmental school counseling program to provide students with the knowledge and skills in the four domains (academic, personal/social, career, and global perspective)
- Become actively involved with students through classroom visitations, presentation of lessons, participation in student activities and being visible during student break, lunch, etc.
- Participate in interdisciplinary curriculum development to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive counseling curriculum
- ES counselors deliver the counseling curriculum to KG1 and Grade 5 students
- Model ISG’s core values
- Promote an understanding and appreciation of diverse populations and cultures
- Maintain confidentiality and discretion in responding to sensitive issues, including confidential record keeping
- Embody, uphold, and promote the **ISG Learning Principles**:

- Students learn best with voice and choice
- Learning is a reflective practice
- Learning requires a safe, collaborative environment
- Learning requires feedback for growth
- Learning inspires passionate engagement
- Learning from failure requires a growth mindset
- Appropriate challenge engages and motivates learners
- Embody, uphold and promote the **ISG Assessment Beliefs**:

- Purpose:

- The purpose of assessment is to improve learning
- Beliefs:

- The student is the first and most important user of assessment data
- Reflection is integral to deep learning
- Assessments should be aligned with adopted standards
- Feedback to students should be timely, targeted, accurate, actionable, ongoing, and embedded in the assessment process
- Assessments should produce accurate data capable of informing instruction and learning
- Assessments should give students opportunities to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
- Creating and upholding structures that support teacher collaboration around assessment practices will enhance student learning
- Strive to help students demonstrate and embody the characteristics of the **ISG Profile of Graduates**:

- _Leadership_ - inspire and motivate others
- _Collaboration_ - purposeful and effective interaction with others
- _Individuality_ - self-d