Nova Pioneer is looking for an experienced School Counsellor for our Tatu Day Campus willing and ready to start in January 2023.
The school counsellor will
utilize leadership, advocacy, and collaboration to promote student success,
provide preventive services, and respond to identified student needs by
implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic,
career, and personal/social development and mental and social wellness for all
students as the primary target group, but also for other members of the school
community. This is an opportunity to help create a transformative school model
with the future of Africa’s youth at stake.
Responsibilities
- Model, live and lead the Nova Culture
- Collaboratively develop a Comprehensive School
Counseling Policy with the Principal
- Deliver a Comprehensive School Counselling Program
- Develop and maintain a written plan for effective
delivery of the school counseling program based on best practice
approaches and in line with the school’s ethos.
- Communicate the goals of the comprehensive school
counseling policy to education stakeholders (i.e., administrators,
teachers, students, parents, and community/business leaders).
- Maintain current and appropriate resources for
education stakeholders.
- Provide direct services through the Guidance
Curriculum, Individual Student Planning and Preventive and Responsive
Services, and most remaining time in program management, system support,
and accountability
- Use data to develop comprehensive programs that meet
student needs.
- Provide leadership and collaborate with other
educators in the school-wide integration of best practice in
counselling.
- Implement appropriate and prevention-oriented group
activities to meet student needs and school goals.
- Plug-into the life skills programme as guided by the
office of the Director of Academics and/ or the Principal to support with
execution
- Assist all students, individually or in groups, with
developing academic, career and personal/social skills, goals, and plans.
- Make use of data to devise interventions, in
consultation with the Principal.
- Provide individual and group counseling to students
with identified concerns and needs.
- Implement an effective referral and follow-up
process as needed.
- Accurately and appropriately use assessment
procedures for determining and structuring individual and group counseling
services. Consult the Principal if there is the need to invite an external
service provider for the whole school, or for students, or for members of
staff.
- Provide appropriate information to school personnel
related to the comprehensive school counseling program.
- Assist teachers, parents/guardians, and other
stakeholders in interpreting and understanding student data.
- Participate in professional development activities
to improve knowledge and skills.
- Use available technology resources to enhance the
school counseling program.
- Adhere to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical
standards of the school counseling profession.
- Collaborate with parents/guardians and educators to
assist students with educational, career, and life planning.
- Conduct a yearly audit to review the counselling
needs and trends in the school, and the extent to which the Counselling
programme in the school is effective in its implementation, based on the
data collected and analyzed.
- Prepare the results of such analysis in a manner
that makes it possible to share the information with different
stakeholders: students, teachers, network, parents and guardians.
- Plan and deliver routine wellness sessions for
parents.
- Collaborate with Learning Design team to incorporate
therapy content in lesson
- Ability to collaborate with the school nurse and
other health professionals in case of referrals.
Qualifications
- You have Professional Training in Counselling-
Higher National Diploma or Degree in Counselling Psychology
- You are registered with a counselor’s
professional body in Kenya
- You have between 3-5 years of experience in
institutional counselling
- You are experienced in using assessment tools for
determining and structuring individual and group counselling.
- You are passionate about student welfare and want to
help them tackle life’s different challenges
- You have previously counselled children/ teens
- You are a great communicator: You are able to
provide a clear and persuasive pitch to anyone and have excellent written
and verbal communication skills.
- You
are results driven, goal oriented, move fast, and take ownership of work.
- You have an exceptional ability to think
strategically and yet you sweat the small stuff—people see you as
unusually detail-oriented and conscientious
- You have the ability to exercise discretion in
handling sensitive matters
- You have a flexible and adaptable approach to work
- You are proactive and have an enthusiastic approach
to work
- You are excited about our organizational culture—and
in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual
vulnerability and a firehose of feedback
How to Apply