013-2025: High School Counselor 1.0 FTE - Internal Applicants Only

1.0 FTE - 013-2025 posting ID 

Washougal School District

Posting for the 2025-26 School Year

Position Type: Certificated, 1.0 FTE continuing contract

Position Title: High School Counselor

Position Location: Washougal High School

Position Posting: April 7, 2025  

Position Begins: 08/25/2025

Salary: $64,524 to $121,612 Based on 2024-25 salary schedule and placement is based upon education and experience

POSTED: April 7, 2025, first review of applicants April 14, 2025

5 days per week

184 days/180 student attendance (per District calendar)

District salary schedule

Internal Posting for WAE members closes at 4:00 p.m. on April 11, 2025.

Required Endorsements: WA/OSPI ESA certificate with School Counselor Endorsement

The Washougal Strategic Plan is centered on our commitment to know, nurture and challenge all students to rise and includes our six guiding pillars that steer our work and prioritize our decisions and actions: 

• Effective Instruction -  We will invest in attracting, retaining, and developing excellent teachers and staff. We will provide relevant, rigorous and supportive instruction with high expectations for all students.
• Career & College Readiness - We will prepare students to contribute to the community they live in, whether in skilled trades, higher education, or professional careers.  
• Equity - We will engage in intentional efforts to identify disparities that create opportunity gaps, and take action to eliminate the achievement gap. We will develop and strengthen students' agency, so they are prepared for careers, college and life. 
• Educational Engagement - We will ensure all students are involved in innovative, artistic, creative, vocational, and intellectual pursuits, so they develop confidence, understanding, and agency in the classroom and beyond.
• Partnerships to Support Students - We will partner to build culturally responsive schools, where all children are known, supported and connected through positive relationships in a safe environment.
• Stewardship of Resources - We will maximize resources to create opportunities for our students through a transparent budget process that aligns with our priorities for student achievement and operations of the district. Every dollar matters.

PURPOSE:

The Washougal School District is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a highly qualified workforce that appreciates the diversity of our community and is committed to practices that are responsive to the needs of all students and families. WSD believes that all students have limitless potential, and we are committed to implementing inclusionary practices that allow all students to thrive. A Washougal School District educator knows, nurtures, and challenges all students with high expectations, a love of learning, and a focus on helping every student rise to their highest potential and learn at high levels.  Effective educators recognize individual students’ strengths and needs, and use multiple strategies to help all students be successful while creating collaborative, equitable, safe, and welcoming communities of learners.

The school counselor provides services to students, which include school program and career planning; individual and group counseling, needs assessments for determining appropriate modes of service and short term crisis intervention. The counselor also disseminates appropriate information to students, staff and parents, and assists in articulation with the middle school, high school and/or with post-high school institutions. 

Functions

• Kindle excitement about learning in students, encouraging flexible and critical thinking and development of communication skills.
• Coordinates with teachers, resource specialists and/or community (e.g. service clubs, courts, child protective services, etc.) for the purpose of providing/receiving requested information and/or making recommendations.
• Counsels students, parents, and guardians for the purpose of enhancing student success in school.
• Develops a variety of special programs for the purpose of providing information to assist students in the successful transition form middle school to high school to career training and/or continuing education.
• Monitors students’ progress for the purpose of identifying issues and taking appropriate action for increasing student success.
• Presents information (e.g. budget overviews, accounting processes, distribution formulas, etc.) for the purpose of communicating information , gaining feedback and ensuring adherence to established internal controls.
• Researches program eligibility requirements for the purpose of providing up-to-date, accurate counsel to students.
• Schedules student classes for the purpose of securing appropriate placement and meeting their graduation and college eligibility requirements.
• Assess the needs of the students as appropriate and assist with the provision of a suitable learning environment to meet their needs.
• Evaluate each pupil’s educational growth and development and make periodic reports to parents or guardians as well as to the designated school administrator.
• Conduct effective classroom presentations to students (6-12).
• Assist in program planning for individual and school schedules; evaluate and monitor transcripts; assist in registering students.
• Remain current on state graduation requirements and track student progress.
• Provide individual and group counseling and guidance, including academic, social/emotional, and career.
• Provide counseling, consultative and referral services for identified and suspected handicapped students.
• Provide topic-focused group counseling
• Plan and conduct parent informational meetings and brief crisis counseling, as needed.
• Participate in school guidance team and serve on building and district committees as needed.
• Provide referral services to students, parents and staff as appropriate and in accordance with federal law, state guidelines, and District Regulations.
• Conduct faculty in-service training in appropriate areas such as 504, McKinney-Vento, and CPS notification
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Consult with teachers on individual students including developmental stages of youth, academic and social/emotional intervention strategies, and physical needs.
• Work with other school counselors and/or post high school institutions in the articulation of student learning programs
• Work with middle school counselors in transition of in-coming 8th grade students (i.e. records, placement recommendations, and at-risk students).
• Maintain safe and healthy conditions in the learning environment and report promptly to principal any serious accident or illness affecting students.
• Collect, maintain and disseminate information as necessary and appropriate.
• Maintains complex and confidential electronic and physical files and records for individual and department use, for the purpose of providing up-to-date reference, and in compliance with records retention guidelines
• Demonstrate and maintain positive working relationships with staff, parents, community, businesses and organizations, national/local counseling professional associations.
• Attends staff and other professional meetings as may be assigned or necessary.
• Use technology for communication, presentations, trainings, workload management, and workshops.
• Participate in district counseling activities and commit to continued professional development.
• Provide regular program evaluative feedback with suggested plans to address any targeted areas of concern to the building administrator, director(s), assistant superintendents and other stakeholders as appropriate or as directed.
• Work cooperatively with a building team in planning, supporting and providing instruction, and share with other staff the responsibility for supervision of activities and student behavior outside the regular classroom.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned, for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.

Experience: Job related experience is desired.   Education: Master’s degree in job related area

Certificated & Licenses                                                      

WA ESA Certificate with School Counselor endorsement

Valid First Aid Certificate                                                       

FLSA Status                                                     Clearances

Exempt                                                            WSP/FBI Background Clearance

                                                                       WA State Sexual Misconduct Inquiry

Applications will be accepted until filled by a qualified applicant.

The Washougal School District is a Drug & Tobacco Free workplace.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Nondiscrimination Statement

The Washougal School District complies with all federal and state rules and regulations and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. This holds true for all district employment and educational programs. 

The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:

• Title IX Compliance Officer: Brian Wilde (360) 954-3104
• ADA Compliance Officer: Connor McCroskey (360) 954-3021
• Section 504 Coordinator:  Connor McCroskey (360) 954-3021

Inquiries regarding compliance and/or grievance procedures may be directed to the school district's Title IX/ RCW 28A.640 & ADA compliance officer and Section 504 coordinator.

Salary : $64,524 - $121,612