What are the responsibilities and job description for the HS Counselor position at Pacelli Catholic Schools?
PACELLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Job Description
HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR
(Revised March 2025)
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced degree and school counselor certification is required
- Internship and/or other guidance work experience
- Possesses good communication skills
- Respects confidentiality
- Is tactful and considerate; cheerful, and possesses sense of humor
- Demonstrates organizational skills
- Able to work well with students, staff, parents, public
- Able to function well under pressure, reacts calmly and appropriately in emergencies and other
stressful situations
- Must have or be willing to earn advanced religious certification
- Demonstrates loyalty to schools, system, diocese
REPORTS TO: High School Principal
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
I. Career/Vocational
- Manages and facilitates the process in which students evaluate career interests and
choices on an annual basis
- Actively uses data and information from Xello to guide students toward career pathways
and post-secondary learning opportunities
- Engages parents and students a minimum of one time per year to discuss Academic
Career Planning (ACP) to include 4-year high school planning, reviewing student PreACT
test data, discussing post-secondary plans, and preparing for college application process
and financing.
- Assists with student records and protects their confidentiality
- Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarship, internship,
apprenticeship, employment and military applications
- Makes recommendations to colleges for admission and scholarships
- Provides student information to colleges and potential employers
- Manage and provide ongoing support of the PCHS Advisory Program including creating
lesson plans for advisory teachers, ensuring teachers are implementing lesson with
fidelity, and reviewing student progress related to the program
II. Administrative Expectations
- Maintain professional, cooperative, and friendly relations with students, staff, parents,
public
- Advises administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline
- Shares with the principal the responsibility for protecting the health and welfare of the
students
- Provides in-service training in Xello, ACP programming, and student academic data for
- Works with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general range
prospects of individual students being counseled
- Manages and directs the Pacelli ACP Program as outlined by the Wisconsin DPI to
Readiness, and Social Emotional Learning.
- Manage all Early College Credit Programming (ECCP) including partnerships with UW
- Manage Youth Apprenticeship Programming, Senior School-to-Work Programming, and
- Acts as the School Assessment Coordinator for all testing including state required
- Facilitate the use of testing data to assist parents, students, and teaching staff to guide
- Attend weekly Building Leadership Team Meetings
- Meet with principal weekly to discuss student and program progress
- Manage all aspects of billing relate
III. Learning
- Structures activities to meet the needs of the students
- Provides responsive services to individuals or small groups on academic and personal
issues
- Assists students in the acquisition of study skills, academic opportunities and benefits
- Consults with teachers, staff and parents to enhance their effectiveness in helping
students
- Works to discover and develop special abilities of students
- Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying
occupations
- Shares responsibility for certifying students for graduation
- Aids students in course and subject selection
- Facilitates a successful standardized testing program
- Assists students in evaluating their aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of
individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and works with students in
evolving education and occupation plans in terms of such evaluation
- Plans guidance field trips to schools, colleges, and industry for interested students
- Guides students in their participation in school and community activities
- Orients new students to school procedures and the schools varied opportunities for
learning
IV. Personal/Social Counseling
- Handle confidential information with discretion
- Handle confidential information with discretion
- Remains readily available to student so as to provide counseling that will lead each
student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity
- Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related
to such problems as home and family relations, health and emotional adjustment
- Refers students to appropriate third-party resources for ongoing counseling and support
- Provides an individual planning system to guide students toward acquiring
- Confers with parents whenever necessary
- Administer AODA programs for the High School
- Administer student assistance programs for the High School
- Complies with rules and objectives of school, system, diocese
- Ability to maintain and ensure confidentiality of sensitive information and materials
- Performs all other duties as necessary to the position and as specified by the principal
