Middle School Counselor

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🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Dayforce

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5001 - 10000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $1G Post-IPO Debt - Dayforce on 2024-03

HR Tech • SaaS • Enterprise

Dayforce is a cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) platform developed by Ceridian that provides integrated HR, payroll, workforce management, time and attendance, benefits, and talent management functionality. It is offered as a SaaS solution for businesses to manage employee lifecycle and payroll processes in a single system, aimed primarily at enterprise and mid-market customers.

📋 Description

• The Middle School (6th - 8th Grade) Counselor is responsible for programming that supports and promotes academic and social development of students in grades 6-8. • Respond to students’ academic and social/emotional needs through developmentally appropriate interventions. • Assess student abilities, interests, and achievement to help them make decisions about their future and help guide them in planning for upper school. • Communicate proactively and responsively with students, parents, teachers, staff, and administrators via email, phone, video conference, and any other communication tools provided by LSS. • Cultivate collaborative relationships with middle school teachers and advisors to establish wrap-around support for all students. • Lead live monthly webinar sessions for students and guardians which focus on supporting students’ academic, career, and social/emotional development. • Plan and implement group counseling opportunities to meet student needs as identified by data. • Support individual student academic, social/emotional, and college/career needs through one-on-one meetings. • Collaborate closely with the K-5 and College Counselors to aid in the development of a vertically aligned, comprehensive school counseling program, playing a critical role in the transition programming that supports the successful transition both to and beyond middle school. • Support and encourage enrollment through active participation in virtual open houses and re-enrollment conversations. • Use data to identify programming priorities and effectiveness. • Create meaningful communications, such as newsletters, that focus on needs specific to the population of students on a regular basis. • Participate collaboratively and professionally in school-wide meetings, events, communications and activities, both online and in person, with some required evening virtual events. • Engage in ongoing professional development (internal and external), practice self-assessment, and strive for continuous improvement. • Maintain confidentiality regarding students, families, and staff as well as LSS management and operations. • Perform other counseling related duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree • Active School Counseling certification and commitment to ongoing compliance with state and local regulations relating to background checks and credentials. • 3+ years of experience counseling or working in a school setting supporting specifically middle school students. • Experience with implementing group programs with measurable objectives. • Excellent skills with word processing, productivity, communication, and educational technology tools; expertise with G-Suite, Learning Management Systems, and Student Information Systems strongly preferred. • Strong analytical, interpretive, evaluative, and constructive thinking, and organizational skills • Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. • Access to dependable and high-quality internet and a quiet work space that allows the counselor to be fully present and available to students, parents, and colleagues as needed during work hours (Monday through Friday from 8:30am - 5pm ET). • Ability to travel to attend in-person events, meetings, and training opportunities on occasion.