About this role
A vacancy exists for the 2026-2027 school year for a School Counselor within the Norristown Area School District located at Eisenhower Science and Technology Leadership Academy. Sign On Bonus for new to the district employees (In addition to Salary): $3,000 Qualifications:
• PA Certification in Guidance and Counseling
• Experience working with middle school aged students preferred
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Bilingual in Spanish Preferred
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Counsel at strategic intervals with students who are having academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional problems
• Select and administer special purpose tests designed to yield information helpful to the student/counselor
• Assure that each student has the benefit of placement services – either from the individual counselor or by cooperative arrangement within the pupil personnel team
• Assure that a system of student personal and educational records is maintained and updated periodically
• Coordinate the maintenance and growth of a library of student guidance information and materials: personal, social, occupational, and educational
• Ascertains that parents of students who have been systematically identified as having academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional problems are informed concerning the problems and that they are invited to cooperate with the student, the counselor, and the school toward a solution to the problem(s)
• Establishes and maintains parental awareness of the guidance function, its place, and its importance by periodic and continuing use of newsletters, brochures, and other communication techniques
• Meet periodically with administration and staff to improve intra-building communication concerning general understanding and awareness of student's needs, student characteristics, and the central place of those factors in all professional planning
• Communicates the needs of individual students to appropriate professional personnel, when those needs become apparent
• Alerts the professional staff to the need for, and preparation for, identification of students who have educational, emotional, or social problems, or who appear to be inclined toward such problems
• Cooperates with building administration as it plans and conducts student orientation programs
• Establishes and maintains effective liaison relationships with community agency resources
• Collaborates with school team to analyze data and determine appropriate interventions
• Conduct risk/threat assessments for students in need
• Facilitate, conduct, and assist in the implementation of FBAs and PBSPs for students
2026-2027 Salary Schedule: experience calculated per contract agreement not to exceed step 10 Bachelor's - $62,663- $78,539 ( step 10) Bachelor's + 24 - $67,760- $87,165 ( step 10) Master's - $72,133- $95,070 ( step 10) Master's + 15 - $75,276- $99,400 ( step 10) Master's + 30 - $78,419- $103,698 ( step 10) Master's + 45 - $78,944- $104,289 ( step 10) Doctorate/Master's + 60 - $79,469- $104,848 ( step 10)