Academic Advisor

Job description / Role

• Direct students to provide them with sources of vocational/technical, career, college, information and work.
• Maintain a library of catalogs, pamphlets and directories from colleges, technical schools and military academies. This information shall include forms, scholarship information, financial aid information, and occupational briefs.
• Provide newsletters and other information to parents/guardians and students that relate to testing dates, college visitation dates, deadlines for filing applications, presentations that are held for career speakers and dates of military recruiter visits.
• Direct students to appropriate Internet sites that will allow students to conduct their own interest inventories and secure information about an array of vocational, career and post high school experiences.
• Organize, interpret and administer interest and achievement testing for students.
• Organize and coordinate the College Fairs.
• Organize and coordinate individual visits from college representatives.
• Initiate contacts with professionals in the community and arrange for students to job shadow.
• Assist outside agencies visiting the school and speaking to groups of interested students. This shall include military, college and technical school representatives and representatives of careers available without post-secondary training.
• Maintain information on institutions that offer scholarships.
• Meet with students prior to and during the registration process, inform the students of classes relative to course selection and assist the administration in the registration and scheduling process.
• Meet with students individually or in groups to discuss credits, courses and entrance exams required by colleges and technical schools.
• Advise students regarding the accuracy and completeness of records and credits and perform periodic credit checks from grades 9 through 12 with an emphasis on the senior year.
• Communicate in writing and/or verbally to parents/guardians of senior students who are deficient in their credit status.
• Coordinate the standardized testing program at the high school and compile and disseminate test results to appropriate personnel, students and parents/guardians.
• Act as a referral agent in the regular education staffing by receiving referrals from staff, making contact with the student and possibly the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s) and conducting conferences to determine potential outcomes.
• Provide a link between students and appropriate community resources and outside agencies in Qatar, adolescent day treatment programs, hospital-based counseling programs and Qatar Protective Services.
• Assist students in alternative programs by receiving referrals from administrators, teachers, parents/guardians and students.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited college/university.
• Three years teaching experience.
• Must possess teaching license with school counselor endorsement.
• Ability to build and form good relationships with students, colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Ability to proficiently use office computer and finance software including word-processing, spreadsheet, database/s and internet systems.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Enthusiasm for working with internal and external constituents.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize work.
• Good communication skills (verbal and written); excellent grammar and punctuation.
• Integrity; good judgment and decision-making abilities, problem-solving skills, and organizational and planning skills.
• Reliability and confidentiality.
• Skilled at information gathering and data management (student and college records).

About the Company

Michael E. DeBakey High School - Qatar (DHSHP at Qatar) is an award winning high school, offering students a college preparatory curriculum in science, mathematics, and medical science. It is an alternative to the traditional high school experience that prepares students for careers in medicine and science. In collaboration with the Outstanding Schools Oversight Committee (OSOC) of the Supreme Education Council (SEC), DHSHP was invited to bring the first medical science focused high school in the Middle East.