Position Type: Student Support Services/Guidance Counselor- Secondary 7-12
Date Posted: 11/2/2026
Location: Moorestown High School (9-12)
Date Available: 01/01/2027
Closing Date: 11/16/2026
Moorestown School District Moorestown New JerseyTitle: School Counselor
Building: Moorestown High School
Date: January 1, 2027 - June 30, 2027
Salary Guide: MEA Salary Guide
Salary Range: $58,931.00 - $111,347.00
Benefits: New Jersey Educator's Health Plan
Qualifications:- New Jersey Department of Education School Counselor Standard Certificate K-12.
- Skill in employing a variety of counseling strategies including individual and small group counseling, as well as group guidance techniques.
- Ability to communicate effectively, including reading, writing, speaking and listening.
- Knowledge of FERPA, IDEA, NCLB, and other federal and state laws applying to students and the delivery of educational services.
- Knowledge of current college admission and career planning trends relevant to student interests and aspirations (High School).
Job Goal: - To provide guidance and counseling services to students
- Provide academic counseling for students.
- Provide informational services for students.
- Provide leadership in Intervention and Referral Services.
- Work closely with the child study team to enhance the opportunities for children with special needs.
- Provide swift and efficient intervention and continued support for crisis situations.
- Assist students with college and career planning (High School Counselors).
- Make cumulative records available on all students and assist in the interpretation of the data.
- Review records of all new students and report significant information regarding placement or any other concerns to the building principal.
- Meet with individual parents to facilitate the specific needs of their child. B. School & Community Relations Foster student academic, career and personal/social development via classroom lessons, pull-out groups and individual counseling meetings.
- Deliver the district school counseling curriculum to meet student academic, social and emotional needs.
- Provide in-service training for specific needs and to present new ideas.
- Disseminate appropriate school counseling information to the broader school community.
- Assist new students in adjusting to the school and the community.
- Serve as a consultant to parents of assigned students.
- Collaborate with and serve as a resource person to faculty, staff, and administration.
- Contribute to the continual promotion of an educational climate in which individual students can grow intellectually and emotionally.
Technology Skills: - Proficient in software applications related to role, including but not limited to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Google Suite, Frontline, and Genesis Student Information System.
- Ability to conduct meetings synchronously and asynchronously.
- Evaluation of Performance: Performance of this piston will be evaluated annually in accordance with the New Jersey Administrative Code and Board of Education policy.
- Physical Demand Physical demands include the ability to remain in a stationary position, when necessary, occasionally move throughout the building to access colleagues and/or supplies.
- Ability to operate a computer and/or other office machinery. Ability to communicate verbally, and in writing via technology devices or handwritten correspondence.
- The physical demands as described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities through an interactive process of determining essential duty task completion options.
Physical Demand - Physical demands include the ability to remain in a stationary position when necessary, occasionally move throughout the building to access colleagues and/or supplies.
- Ability to operate a computer and/or other office machinery. Ability to communicate verbally, and in writing via technology devices or handwritten correspondence.
- The physical demands as described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities through an interactive process of determining essential duty task completion options.
New Jersey First Act- N.J.S.A. 52:14-7 (L.2011, Chapter 70), requires employees of all school boards to reside in the State of New Jersey unless otherwise exempted under the law.
Application Procedure:Apply online: www.generalasp.com/mtps.onlineapp
