# School Counselor

**Company**: Virtual Prep Academy of Missouri
**Location**: Virtual Prep Academy of Missouri
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

The School Counselor supports overall student success by partnering with staff members and families to inform student-specific academic programming, create and maintain graduation and career plans, and provide proactive and preventative services.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver proactive guidance curriculum to individuals and groups

- Engage students in academic and career planning assessments, interpret results, and assist students with developing a plan that leads to student success and on-time graduation

- Respond to individual and group needs with responsive counseling and programming

- Review transfer student transcripts and inform appropriate course placements

- Maintain and review transcripts for active students and inform credit award procedures

- Create and maintain student graduation plans

- Provide career readiness curriculum and facilitate creation of career plans

- Coordinate career fairs, graduate fairs, and special career-focused events

- Deliver Life Skills curriculum

- Create and maintain Student 504 plans

- Analyze student data to provide input on appropriate academic programs and interventions

- Travel to support testing efforts and school events within the state as needed

Requirements:

- Valid Missouri School Counselor license

- Bachelor’s degree plus one (1) year previous experience in counseling and/or advisement OR equivalent combination of education and experience

- Experience with the ASCA model

- Experience with K-12 online learning

- Experience with Local, State, and Federal laws and mandated reporting

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite Products

- Ability to handle confidential information responsibly and exhibit sound judgment while maintaining that confidentiality

- Ability to manage difficult or emotional situations and make evidence-based decisions

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Ability to work well under pressure, effectively prioritizing and executing tasks to meet deadlines consistently

- Customer service oriented

- Ability to work independently and contribute to a team

- Ability to pass federal and state criminal background checks

## Skills

### Required
- ASCA model
- K-12 online learning
- Microsoft Office
- Google Suite Products
- Local, State, and Federal laws and mandated reporting

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