What are the responsibilities and job description for the MS/HS School Counselor :: 2025-2026 - Part Time position at Adventure Christian School?
Position : MS / HS School Counselor
Reports to : MS / HS Principal
FLSA Status : Exempt
Job Status : Part-time (.50 FTE)
We believe that it is the parent's responsibility to train up a child in the way he / she should go. Our role is to come alongside parents and offer a biblical base for the academic education families are seeking for their children. Our purpose is to partner with parents in growing their children in Christ.
Our goal is to provide our students with a biblically based academic curriculum and to teach our students principles from God's word that they will apply to every aspect of their lives. The aide shall always strive to understand, appreciate, love, and serve alongside the teacher.
JOB DUTIES
Spiritual
- Maintain a daily personal devotional life to be prepared spiritually for the demands of each teaching day.
- Demonstrate, by example, love and obedience to Christ and His word. Motivate students to accept God's gift of salvation and help them grow in their faith.
- Attend an evangelical church and serve in a church ministry as the Lord leads.
- Attend all regularly scheduled devotions.
Responsibilities
Management
Communication
Professional
Supplemental
Safety
Requirements
Education - One or more of the following :
Experience and Expertise :
Clearances
Physical Demands & Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
PHYSICAL : The employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee will lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is regularly in a typical school / classroom environment with adequate light and moderate noise levels.
SUPERVISION : Indoor (classroom, play areas) : Teachers must be able to actively supervise students within the classroom or in the gymnasium area for indoor / outdoor recess or physical education. Outdoor (playground, parks, parking lot) : Teachers in the elementary school must be able to supervise students in their classroom or while on the playground, parking lot, or park. Overall Supervision (in all areas) students must have adult supervision at all times. It is understood that students can not be left unattended at any time and / or in the left alone without the presence of a teacher, aide, staff, or ACS approved / fingerprinted adult(s).
EMERGENCIES : Teacher must be able to quickly summon help when an emergency arises either in the classroom, gymnasium, or on the playground. Teachers are required to render minimal first aid to students who may be injured while in the classroom, gymnasium, or on the playground.
ATTENDANCE : Teachers are required to be present daily half an hour before the students arrive until half an hour after the students depart. They are also required to be present for faculty meetings and other special functions after school, and occasionally for meetings or other functions in the evening.
Competencies :
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
