K-5 School Counselor

Job Description:

K-5 School Counselor

Agora Cyber Charter School

Virtual - King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Open in Google Maps

Job Details

Job ID:5274025
Application Deadline:Oct 08, 2025 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Posted:Jul 8, 2025

Starting Date:Immediately

Job Description

POSITION: K-12 School Counselor (This posting is for a K-5 School Counselor)

POSITION TERM: 11 Month

REPORTS TO: Grade Band Principal (This position will report to the Elementary School Principal)

DATE: May 2024

Our Mission

The mission of the Agora Cyber Charter School is to provide an innovative, intensive academic preparation that inspires and educates students to achieve the highest levels of academic knowledge and skills. Agora embraces a collaborative partnership between teachers and parents in order to empower students to reach extraordinary heights. Extraordinary results require extraordinary efforts. With commitment, hard work, consistency and responsibility, every student will meet the challenge of mastering high expectations.

Our Vision

The vision of Agora Cyber Charter School is to prepare all students to achieve their highest potential through actively engaging in their own schooling, achieving their personal learning goals and being ready to reach post-secondary success as lifelong learners.

Position Summary

Develops, manages, and implements the Agora comprehensive K-12 school counseling program, which is aligned with the ASCA national standards, Pennsylvania Career Education and Work standards and curriculum frameworks, and Pennsylvania’s Health Standards. This includes a comprehensive guidance program, responsive services, individual student planning and system supports.

Essential Functions:

(Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Assists students in grades K-12 in academic, career-planning, and social-emotional development areas
• Develops and executes a developmentally-appropriate school counseling program and curriculum focused on the mindsets and behaviors all students need for postsecondary readiness and success,
• Create classroom, group, and closing-the-gap action plans, activities, and interventions to address the areas of need determined in the ASCA national model and Agora’s needs assessments
• Serves as active participant and advisor for child-centered teams, including but not limited to 504 meetings, individual education plan meetings, school attendance plan meetings, SAP team, and MTSS child study teams
• Provides support for new students, including academic advising, identification and removal of barriers to success, facilitation of peer connections
• Provides advisement and appraisal for academic planning and goal setting
• Plans and provides direct instruction to students in the areas of social-emotional development, career planning, and academic success strategies
• Provides individual and small group counseling to students, including peer mediation and bullying
• Coordinates student work-based learning programs in which students meet specific academic and work experience requirements
• Assists and/or leads professional development and trainings related to areas related to their certification areas
• Leads dropout prevention and early warning systems efforts and monitors students at risk for retention
• Assists with long-term absence planning for students who are in mental health treatment facilities, maternity or medical leave
• Acts as a systems change agent to improve equity and access, achievement and opportunities for all students, including serving as an active participant on schoolwide and school-specific committees and task forces
• Collaborates with families, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders for student success
• Analyzes data to identify student issues, needs, and challenges
• Reports results of action plans to the school community
• Other duties as assigned

Competencies:

• Technology Capacity
• Ethical Conduct
• Strategic Thinking
• Communications Proficiency
• Demonstrated problem solving ability
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to effectively collaborate with all stakeholders
• Self-starter with the ability to work with minimum supervision
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Office software
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook

Required Education and Experience:

• Current Pennsylvania Elementary and Secondary School Counselor (PK-12) certification
• Demonstrated successful experience in working in a demanding, high performance work environment managing competing priorities
• Experience using Microsoft Office suite and student information system and/or other type of database preferred

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Experience with distance/remote learning
• Experience/familiarity with content or learning management systems

Work Environment

This job operates in a virtual office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones and photocopiers.

Physical Demands:

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 occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

 

Declaration:

This job description does not state or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. The employee in this position will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his/her administrator(s) and/or supervisor(s).

Agora Cyber Charter School is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Position Type:Full-Time

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