School Counselor

Young World Physical Education; North Carolina; On-site; USD 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Camden County Schools is seeking a School Counselor in Camden, NC to develop and implement a comprehensive counseling program aligned with the North Carolina standards.

You will provide individual and group counseling, collaborate with staff, and engage in data-driven planning to support academic, career, and personal/social development for all students.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with a Master’s degree in counseling.
• Must be licensed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in counseling or be able to obtain licensure in this area.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with all school staff to create a positive learning community.
• Implement improvements in counseling services by staying current with research and best practices.
• Create an inviting, respectful, supportive, inclusive, and flexible environment.
• Respond to and stabilize crisis situations on an individual and school-wide basis.
• Participate in and lead professional development opportunities.
• Provide classroom group guidance sessions.
• Discuss the comprehensive school counseling program with the school administrator.
• Develop and maintain a written plan for the counseling program based on NC standards.
• Communicate counseling goals to administrators, teachers, students, parents, and community leaders.
• Use data to develop programs that meet student needs.
• Provide leadership in school-wide guidance curriculum integration.
• Consult with parents/guardians and educators regarding student needs.

Skills

Counseling

Collaboration

Crisis intervention

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Master’s degree in counseling

Licensure by NC DPI or eligibility

Job description

School Counselor

Job ID: 5731459

Application Deadline: Posted until filled

Posted: May 21, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 4, 2026

Job Details

Camden County Schools CCHS/CECHS - Camden, North Carolina

Job Description

Reports To: Principal and/or Chief Student Services Officer

Purpose: To help all students develop skills in the areas of personal‑social growth, educational planning, and career and vocational development. To promote student success, provide preventive services, and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development for all students. To incorporate the North Carolina State Board of Education’s guiding mission that every public school student will graduate from high school globally competitive for work and postsecondary education, and prepared for life in the twenty‑first century.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with a Master’s degree in counseling or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Must be licensed by the State of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in counseling or be able to obtain licensure in this area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with all school staff to create a positive learning community.
• Implement improvements in counseling services by staying current with research and best practices.
• Create an environment that is inviting, respectful, supportive, inclusive, and flexible.
• Respond to and stabilize crisis situations on an individual and school‑wide base.
• Actively participate in the school MTSS process to assist at‑risk and under‑achieving student populations.
• Coordinate 504 and Homebound services, where applicable.
• Participate in and lead professional development opportunities.
• Provide classroom group guidance sessions.
• Discuss the comprehensive school counseling program with the school administrator.
• Develop and maintain a written plan for effective delivery of the school counseling program based on the NC Comprehensive School Counseling Standard Course of Study.
• Communicate the goals of the comprehensive school counseling program to education stakeholders (administrators, teachers, students, parents, and community/business leaders).
• Maintain current and appropriate resources for education stakeholders.
• Use the majority of time providing direct services through the Guidance Curriculum, Individual Student Planning and Preventive and Responsive Services, and most remaining time in program management, system support and accountability.
• Use data to develop comprehensive programs that meet student needs.
• Provide leadership and collaborate with other educators in the school‑wide integration of the guidance curriculum.
• Implement developmentally appropriate and prevention‑oriented group activities to meet student needs and school goals.
• Incorporate life skills that students need to be successful into their programs.
• Assist all students, individually or in groups, with developing academic, career, and personal/social skills, goals, and plans.
• Accurately and appropriately interpret and utilize student data.
• Collaborate with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational, career, and life planning.
• Provide individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
• Consult and collaborate with parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, and other educational/community resources regarding students with identified concerns and needs.
• Implement an effective referral and follow‑up process as needed.
• Accurately and appropriately use assessment procedures for determining and structuring individual and group counseling services.
• Provide appropriate information to school personnel related to the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Assist teachers, parents/guardians, and other stakeholders in interpreting and understanding student data.
• Participate in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills.
• Use available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program.
• Adhere to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
• Conduct a yearly program audit to review the extent of program implementation and effectiveness.
• Collect and analyze data to guide program direction and emphasis.
• Measure results of the comprehensive school counseling program activities and share results as appropriate interventions.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the School Administrators.

Major Function: Program Planning

The school counselor establishes the school counseling program and develops activities and resources to implement and evaluate it.

The school counselor involves other school staff in making decisions about the school counseling program.

Major Function: Counseling

The school counselor provides individual and group counseling services to meet the developmental, preventive, and remedial needs of students.

Major Function: Consulting

The school counselor consults with students, parents, teachers, and other school and community personnel to help meet the needs of students.

Major Function: Coordinating

The school counselor coordinates all counseling services for students and assists with the coordination and implementation of student services in the school.

The counselor also assists teachers with the Guidance Curriculum.

Major Function: Professional Practices and Development

The school counselor adheres to ethical standards of the counseling profession and abides by the laws, policies, and procedures that govern the schools.

The counselor also participates in professional associations and upgrades professional knowledge and skills when possible.

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment, including computers, typewriters, copiers, calculators, etc. Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people, or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, or directions.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, press releases, etc. and prepare correspondence, reports, forms, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently using a variety of technical or professional languages, including counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the theories of descriptive statistics.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, such as office equipment. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Does not require the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and in emergency situations.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear. Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• General knowledge of the ethical guidelines applicable to the position as outlined by professional organizations and/or federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.
• General knowledge of the principles of organization and administration.
• General knowledge of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Skill in counseling and motivating students.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, and evaluate the effectiveness of student programs.
• Ability to coordinate the efforts of support services personnel and outside agencies.
• Ability to use standard office machines and popular computer‑driven word processing, spreadsheet, and file maintenance programs.
• Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and statistics and to develop meaningful reports from them.
• Ability to effectively express ideas orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.

Term of Employment: 10 Months

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Grade: NC School Guidance Counselor Salary plus Local

Contact Information

• Amber Davis
• 174 NC Hwy 343 N
• Camden, North Carolina 27921
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]