Student Success Counselor - Growth & Career Guidance

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

ADNOC Schools in Abu Dhabi City and the Western Region is seeking a high-performing School Counselor to support students’ personal, social and academic growth. You will monitor progress, contact parents about behavior, and implement preventive counseling to foster life skills and resilience.

The role involves coordinating with counselors on career options, assisting with career exploration, and maintaining a career resources library.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in psychology, social work or counseling.
• Minimum of two years’ postgraduate experience as School Counselor.
• Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities.
• Respect for all members of your school community.
• Experience with students for whom English is an additional language.
• A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life.
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services or Police check.

Responsibilities

• Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth.
• Monitor the progress of individual students.
• Make contact with parents to discuss student behavior.
• Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying.
• Help students develop job search skills, such as resume writing and interviewing techniques.
• Help students understand and deal with social, behavioral, and personal problems.
• Emphasize preventive and developmental counseling to provide students with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen.
• Provide special services such as conflict resolution classes, identify cases of domestic abuse and other family problems that can affect a student’s development.
• Identifies areas that would be appropriate for intervention in the form of group counseling and regularly forms and leads appropriate groups.
• Utilizes both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioral interventions.
• Coordinates with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
• Assists the counselors in providing students with information for career exploration and selection to assist them in making appropriate academic course selections relating to their interests.
• Maintains an appropriate library/database relating to various careers for students to utilize in their career explorations.
• Works with individual students and groups of students in regard to appropriate social development issues.
• Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding the social development of adolescents.
• Monitors students who may be at risk in regards to social issues and makes appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents.
• Maintains confidentiality as professionally appropriate in regards to student well-being.

Education

Bachelor Degree in Psychology, Social Worker or Counseling

Job description

ADNOC Schools in Abu Dhabi City and the Western Region is seeking a high-performing School Counselor to support students’ personal, social and academic growth. You will monitor progress, contact parents about behavior, and implement preventive counseling to foster life skills and resilience.

The role involves coordinating with counselors on career options, assisting with career exploration, and maintaining a career resources library.