26-27 High School Guidance Counselor

Young World Physical Education; Hollandale (MS); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A local school district is seeking a full-time High School Guidance Counselor to assist students in overcoming personal problems and developing educational and occupational plans. The role includes evaluating student skills, providing counseling, and organizing guidance sessions. Required qualifications include a Master’s degree in guidance and counseling and teaching experience. The position ensures support for student development and requires various administrative tasks involved in student career guidance.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in guidance and counseling.
• A teacher’s certificate or fulfillment of certification requirements.
• A certificate as a guidance counselor.

Responsibilities

• Assist students in evaluating their aptitudes and skills.
• Remain readily available to students to provide counseling.
• Supervise the preparation and processing of college applications.

Skills

Counseling skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Education

Master’s degree in guidance and counseling

Job description

26-27 High School Guidance Counselor

HOLLANDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT – Simmons Jr. Sr. High School, Hollandale, Mississippi
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Job Details

Job ID: 5656427
Application Deadline: Posted until filled
Posted: Apr 19, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: Jul 20, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Guidance Counselor
Reports to: Principal
Department: Schools & Academics
Salary Range: Based on experience
Term: One year with the option for renewal, contingent on funding and performance

Primary Responsibility

To help students overcome problems that impede learning and assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personnel fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

Essential Responsibilities

• Assist students in evaluating their aptitudes and skills through the interpretation of standardized test scores and other data, then work with students to develop educational and occupational plans based on that evaluation.


• Remain readily available to students to provide counseling that helps each student grow personally, understand themselves, and mature.


• Takes an active role in explaining school objectives to students, parents, and the community.


• Works with teachers and staff to familiarize them with the services offered by the student personnel services department and to improve educational prospects of individual students.


• Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarship, and employment applications.


• Initiates, assembles, maintains, and interprets accurate health, attendance, progress, activity, and uniform records for assigned students.


• Registers students.


• Schedules interviews.


• Makes and receives referrals.


• Arranges parent-teacher-student-counselor conferences.


• Attends staff meetings.


• Handles routine correspondence.


• Schedules career speakers.


• Provides career guidance for all grades.


• Prepares bulletin boards with occupational and educational information.


• Creates drop‑out reports.


• Conducts educational evaluations and test interpretations.


• Serves as a resource person.


• Summarizes counselor’s activities at the end of each month.


• Conducts group guidance sessions.


• Reviews records.


• Reviews teacher recommendation for scheduling.


• Attends in‑service programs for counselors.


• Organizes a guidance committee.


• Organizes group guidance sessions to meet student needs.


• Processes recommendations for college.


• Checks all cumulative records to ensure each student has a record.


• Conducts group guidance sessions on job‑interviewing skills such as role‑playing and simulated interviews.


• Reviews second‑semester guidance program.


• Re‑evaluates students’ grades (9th‑12th who failed unit courses).


• Contacts parents by letter or telephone on first‑semester failures.


• Schedules a second interview with students in grades 9‑12.


• Implements Leader‑In‑Me program (Elementary).


• Plans and directs in‑service workshops with teachers.


• Counsels students receiving failing marks first semester.


• Makes arrangements for testing schedules: local, state, ACT, SAT, etc.


• Plans orientation for feeder schools.


• Organizes for subject choice and distribution.


• Arranges group or individual conferences for course selection.


• Has subject‑choice card information for administrators.


• Assists students with financial aid information.


• Assists students with college applications.


• Follows up on graduates and drop‑outs.


• Attends Area PGA Workshop.


• Finalizes pre‑registration data for the coming year.


• Administers needed assessments.


• Distributes summer‑school information.


• Notifies grade‑level failures.


• Adjusts students’ choice cards.


• Registers students for summer school.


• Creates student schedules.


• Supervises sending of transcripts or records.


• Orders materials for next year.


• Evaluates guidance program.


• Writes annual evaluation report.


• Prioritizes guidance objectives for the next school year.


• Performs other duties as required.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in guidance and counseling and coursework in psychology, testing and measurement, sociology, and education.


• A teacher’s certificate or fulfillment of certification requirements.


• A certificate as a guidance counselor.


• A minimum of three years of teaching experience or prior counseling experience outside education.


• Other alternatives acceptable to the Board.

Position Type: Full‑Time

Job Requirements

• Citizenship, residency, or work visa required.

Contact Information

• Derrick Hooker, Principal


• Simmons Jr. Sr. High School


• Phone: [phone]


• Email: [e-mail]