Middle School Counselor

Vergennes Union Middle School is seeking a Middle School Counselor (grades 6-8) beginning in the 2025-26 school year.

The Middle School Counselor will promote and enhance student learning through academic development, career development, and personal/social development. The school counselor utilizes a variety of strategies, activities, delivery methods, and resources to promote the desired student development.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Include the following, and other duties may be assigned.

• Implement effective classroom guidance focusing on understanding of self and others; coping strategies; peer relationships and effective social skills; communication, problem-solving, decision-making, conflict resolution, and study skills; career awareness and the world of work; substance education; and multicultural awareness.
• Provide individual and small group counseling dealing with self-image and self-esteem, personal adjustment, family issues, interpersonal concerns, academic development, and behavior modification, as well as peer facilitation and peer mediation.
• Provide assessment by helping students identify their skills, abilities, achievements, and interests through counseling and guidance activities, and interpretation of standardized tests.
• Work with specialized populations and needs that require special attention, such as culturally diverse populations and students with varying abilities.
• Develop students’ career awareness as a lifelong process of forming basic values, attitudes, and interests regarding their future world of work.
• Coordinate school, community and business resources, school wide guidance-related activities, and extracurricular programs, which promote students’ personal growth and skill development.
• Provide consultation with teachers, administrators, school psychologists, school social workers, and outside agencies and social services concerning the welfare of the students.
• Make appropriate referrals for special services for students and families within the school and community.
• Communicate and exchange information with parents/guardians by way of conferences, parent education workshops, and newsletters.
• Participate as members of the school improvement and interdisciplinary teams.
• Provide consultation services to teachers and provide staff in-service.
• Serve on school and community committees addressing the needs of young people.
• Aids students in course and subject selection.
• Works to discover and develop special abilities of students.
• Works to resolve students’ educational handicaps.
• Maintains student records and protects their confidentiality. Initiates, assembles, maintains, and interprets accurate health records, attendance records, cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students.
• Provide career guidance and information to students and parents.
• Maintain an up-to-date library of career and post-secondary school information. Network with post-secondary schools.
• Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarships, and employment applications.
• School wide master scheduling and individual student scheduling.
• Assists in coordinating and administering annual school wide assessments.

Position Type: Full-time
Job Categories: Student Services > School/Guidance Counselor

Job Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
Degree Preferred: Master’s degree with a concentration in guidance or its equivalent
License: Vermont Professional Educator’s License with School Counselor endorsement (3-64)
At least 2 year(s) of relevant experience preferred.
Citizenship, residency or work visa required

FTE:1.0
Start Date: August 20, 2025
Deadline: Posted until filled

Contact Information
Colden Golann, MS Principal
50 Monkton Rd
Vergennes, Vermont 05491
Phone: 802-877-2938
Fax: 802-877-2558
Email: cgolann@anwsd.org

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