Student Career Guidance Counsellor

Job description / Role

The Student Career Guidance Counsellor will advise students so that they can make informed choices about their future in relation to employment, education and training. Responsibilities include assessing ability and potential in students, providing one-to-one counselling, and liaising with other professionals in this area.

The Student Career Guidance Counsellor must be capable of building trusting relationships with students, parents and the entire school community and must present and promote CIS in a positive image.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Counselling or a closely related field;
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role;
- Experience in Career Guidance Counselling for students;
- Fluent in English – Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor content and format to different audience needs;
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills;
- An eye for good design and attention to detail with the ability to produce well-formatted documents such as presentations, - newsletters, prospectuses, reports etc.;
- Ability to work effectively within an ethnic, cultural and socially diverse student population;
- Excellent organizational skills: ability to set priorities and achieve them;
- Strong customer service orientation and ability to work with a committee or a team;
- Must be friendly, approachable, personable and professional at all times;
- Ability to think “outside the box” and continuously develop communication strategies.
- Candidates must be available to join immediately.

About the Company

Welcome to a school that responds to the needs of 21st century expatriate students. We are living in an international community, so our school must provide a learning environment that cultivates the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to compete in an increasingly global society. Right from the embracing arch at the entrance of CIS, students, parents, teachers and staff know that they are walking into a facility that has been purposely designed for a community of learners to meet the demands of our international world.

At CIS, the Alberta Program of Study provides the internationally renowned standards and curriculum framework to support Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL), a student-centered educational philosophy that has proven to increase students abilities to problem-solve. Students are presented a guiding question, and then must use their prior knowledge and skills to build direct and meaningful correlations to solve the problem. Math, English, Social Studies, Science, Information and Communication Technology, Fine Arts fuse as they are explored in real life contexts that demand and allow for multiple intelligences to shine.