BOARD OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
18 SOUTH PERRY STREET
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12601
RECRUITMENT BULLETIN 25-26-90 SEL SCHOOL COUNSELOR
OCTOBER 2025 POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL
NOTICE OF POSITION
POSITION:
The Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Gregory Mott, is interested in receiving applications from qualified candidates for the position:
SEL SCHOOL COUNSELOR
POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL
QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates must possess a Master’s degree and a New York State School Counselor certificate.
Candidates should possess the desired qualities:
- Commitment to Equity: Passionate about closing the achievement gap and ensuring that every child, regardless of background or circumstance, receives an excellent education.
- Leadership: Coaches, mentors, and challenges others to excel despite obstacles and challenging situations.
- Focus on Data-Driven Results: Relentlessly pursues the improvement of central office performance and school leadership, instruction, and operations, and is driven by a desire to produce quantifiable student achievement gains.
- Innovative Problem-Solving: Approaches work with a sense of possibility and sees challenges as opportunities for creative problem solving; takes initiative to explore issues and finds potential innovative solutions.
- Adaptability: Excels in constantly changing environments and adapts flexibly in shifting projects or priorities to meet the needs of a dynamic transformation effort; comfortable with ambiguity and non-routine situations.
- Teamwork: Increases the effectiveness of surrounding teams through collaboration, constant learning and supporting others; sensitive to diversity in all its forms; respects and is committed to learning from others.
- Dependability: Does whatever it takes to consistently deliver with high quality under tight deadlines; successfully manages own projects through strong organization, detailed work plans, and balancing of multiple priorities.
- Communication and Customer Service Skills: Communicates clearly and compellingly with diverse stakeholders in both oral and written forms; anticipates and responds to customer needs in a high-quality and courteous manner.
Candidates with prior experience in an urban school district with a large racially and economically diverse population are preferred and encouraged to apply.
DUTIES:
The Poughkeepsie City School District (PCSD) is committed to providing students and parents with pathways to opportunity that will lead to achievement and success. Through student-centered effective and transformational leadership, school and community engagement, and an unrelenting pursuit to achieve greater school outcomes for children, the Poughkeepsie City Schools is focused on developing and growing greater access, equity, opportunity, and quality across PCSD.
The School Counselor of Social and Emotional Supports reports to the assistant principal of school culture and climate, while receiving technical assistance, guidance and instruction while working in coordination with the Director of College Readiness and Workforce Education. The school counselor plans and provides appropriate services for students and assists in creating 21st century learning environments conducive to the intellectual, physical, social and emotional development of all students.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The duties of the School counselor of Social and Emotional Supports include, but are not exclusively limited to the following:
- Planning and/or promoting programs which enhance the social or emotional growth of students.
- Designs, implements and assesses the social emotional learning curriculum
- Utilizes responsive counseling, initiating individual and group sessions for students’ personal, social and academic concerns.
- Develops and maintains effective individual and group relationships with students and parents.
- Assesses student needs and makes referrals to appropriate school resource personnel, social agencies, community agencies and alternative programs.
- Addresses bullying/harassment. Provides education (prevention and awareness via classes/presentation on topics such as anger/stress management, cyber safety, etc.)
- Develops youth leadership and empowerment skills.
- Assists teachers in understanding their students, including providing and interpreting student data.
- Collaborates with school leadership to assess, develop and implement school wide initiatives to address social emotional wellness.
- Supports the development of a safe schools initiative.
- Facilitates restorative justice and conflict resolution.
- Ability to work with students who are in crisis situations. Able to provide guidance and assistance to school leaders regarding how to care for students who are experiencing a crisis.
- Uses research-based and technically sound practices to drive decision-making; and collaborates with school personnel and parents to develop and modify student intervention strategies.
- Conducts threat-assessments of students in crisis.
- Available to be on call to support students as needed.
- Pushes into classes and provides social skills lessons to develop resiliency of students.
- Conducts and facilitates school-wide presentations.
- Presents for students a positive role model.
- Provides in-service training on topics related to trauma informed care, and supporting student achievement.
- Ability to organize tasks and manage time to meet many and varied deadlines and communicate effectively with students, parents, school administrators and other staff, including the ability to discuss topics which may be sensitive.
- Respect for diversity in the home, school, local and global communities.
- Other duties as assigned.
APPOINTMENT:
Appointment will be made by the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the Superintendent following assessment of training, experience, certifications, credentials and evaluation of service. Personal interviews shall be conducted where appropriate.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
As soon as practicable
SALARY:
In accordance with the PPSTA contract, $64,681-$100,293
FINAL DATE FOR FILING:
Open until filled
TO APPLY:
Please visit https://www.applitrack.com/poughkeepsieschools/onlineapp/ to fill out an online application. *Please refer to Job ID: 1443.
The Poughkeepsie City School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, disability, age, or marital status; nor does it apply any other arbitrary measure which would tend to deprive persons of their constitutional rights.
