| Reporting to: Academic Dean FLSA: Exempt Schedule: Monday through Friday Hours: 7:50 am – 3:20 p.m. For over 100 years, St. Agnes Academy has been a leader in Catholic college preparatory education for Houston’s young women. With powerful voices and bold ideas, Academy women craft each day with a holy sense of wonder and awe, grace and grit, ingenuity and integrity, bravery and vulnerability, insight and foresight, authentic self-knowledge and selfless commitment to others – artists of vivid, passionate, and purposeful lives. Mission: Rooted in the Dominican tradition, St. Agnes Academy provides a Catholic college preparatory education that encourages young women to develop intellectual curiosity, to work for social justice and to act with integrity and compassion. Faith, Community, and Dominican Charism - Ensure that the four pillars of a Dominican education (prayer, study, community, preaching) are developed and promoted among the school community
- Develop an active faith community and models Christian values
- Incorporate prayer and spiritual formation within the student, faculty/staff and parent communities
- Uphold and implement the Dominican charism and the Houston Dominican Sisters congregational goals
Job Purpose: - Oversee the college counseling department,
- Implement a successful, comprehensive, mission driven college counseling program
The main responsibilities will include: Supervisory Responsibilities - Provide guidance, develop, and evaluate college counseling department and counseling office assistant
- Plan and facilitate weekly department meetings
- Prepare the counseling assignments for the department
- Manage annual performance review process in a timely manner
- Manage employee performance concerns in a timely manner/partner with Human Resources department
- Develop and oversee the onboarding program for new department members
Department Responsibilities - Assist in the preparation of the school profile
- Plan and coordinate information necessary for sophomore and junior conferences
- Establish and communicate a timeline for the college search and application process
- Coordinate counseling calendar
- Oversee content on the Counseling portions of mySAA and the main website
- Oversee the development of all college counseling programming for both students and parents
- Manage department budget
- Place orders for various department resources
- Keep, analyze, and disseminate college counseling data
- Supervise the implementation of a full testing program
- Oversee the analysis and dissemination of testing data.
- Coordinate the preparation of the counseling portion of the Board Report
- Particpates in the hiring process for the department in conjunction with the Academic Dean and the Principal.
College Counseling Responsibilities - Provide academic and college counseling to a caseload of approximately 120 students, including sophomores, juniors and seniors.
- Assist students with all aspects of the process, from prospective college identification to the logistics of application completion, including the financial aid process.
- Write letters of recommendation
- Develop positive relationships with College Admissions Representatives from colleges and universities throughout the country to help foster a better understanding of the rigor of the St. Agnes curriculum and school culture.
- Attend various college counselors’ breakfast and luncheons
- Attend state and national conferences
- Some travel to Colleges/Universities maybe required
Other Responsibilities - Work closely with Academic Dean on curriculum matters
- Coordinate course selection process with Academic Dean
- Prepare beginning and end of year department letters to parents
- Prepare various communications with families
- Attend department chair and other administrative meetings
- Participate in the planning of the Catholic High School College Fair
- Oversee and coordinate the National Merit process
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