High School Counselor

Work Year: 190


Bargaining Unit: TTEA


FLSA Status: Exempt


Salary: $52,755- $106,259 (Based on 190 day contract- 1.0 FTE)

• Salary Amount Listed is for the 2025-2026 School Year. The 2026-2027 School Year salary is TBD.
• Tigard Tualatin School District pays the 6% employee PERS contribution, upon eligibility.

JOB TITLE: School Counselor


JOB GROUP : Licensed


REPORTS TO : Building Principal


FTE: 1.0

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES


To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following requirements and responsibilities satisfactorily. However, any one employee may not perform all duties listed and examples may not cover all duties an employee is expected to perform. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential requirements and responsibilities of the position.

Counseling

• Provide individual counseling for student/staff/parents.
• Provide group counseling for student/staff/parents
• Provide behavioral and/or emotional support to individuals or group
• Assist students, parents, and staff in resolving individual or group conflict
• Counsel with parents regarding student academic, social or emotional progress
• Collect and analyze post graduate survey
• Participate in professional growth activities.

Referral:

• Coordinate referrals to district psychologist
• Initial referral to community agencies
• Contact individuals or agencies to gain or provide information

Appraisal:

• Provide individual/group testing
• Coordinate district testing program
• Administer tests
• Interpret test scores to students, staff, parents

Information/Instruction:

• Teach affective skills
• Provide parent education/information
• Provide individual/group parent, staff guidance
• Provide staff in-service
• Provide individual group orientation to students/parents transition to next grade or educational level
• Maintain newsletters/media contact
• Prepare staffing reports
• Coordinate home instruction/work with home instructor
• Write letters of recommendation
• Provide information to students and their parents regarding career opportunity, career planning, higher education, and financial aid
• Assist in the developing and adjusting of master schedule
• See that students are scheduled for appropriate classes

Planning, Placement and Follow-up

• Participate in building screening committee/multi-disciplinary team meetings
• Coordinator/assist in developing appropriate education for special needs students
• Observe student's classroom behavior
• Schedule and/or provide orientation to new students
• Check credits and update competency requirements
• Observe in classrooms to obtain curriculum information
• Collect information on withdrawn students

Records

• Review records for new students/transfer students
• Review student records for placement (i.e. TEE, special education, etc.)
• Coordinate student progress reports
• Implement daily home work assignment sheets

Evaluation

• Design system to measure student outcomes related to guidance and counseling program
• Collect and analyze perceptions regarding guidance program
• Maintain time/activity log
• Participate in guidance department meetings
• Develop department job targets/goals

QUALIFICATIONS


The essential qualifications of the position are listed below. They include the requisite skill, experience and education for the assignments in this classification. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge/skill and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the duties and responsibilities of this position

• School Counselor License

WORKING CONDITIONS


The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Talk and hear
• Stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Occasionally climbing or balancing
• Frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 25 pounds.
• Specific abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and the majority of the work day is spent indoors.

EVALUATION


Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions in the Collective Bargaining Agreement between Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J and TTEA

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT


Terms and conditions of employment are established by the Collective Bargaining Agreement between Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J and TTEA.

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all inclusive list of responsibility, skill, or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the positions activities and requirements, the administrations reserve the right to modify, and or remove duties and assign duties as necessary that still reflect the essential functions of the department.