Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Seer Baniyas Charter School is dedicated to public school students based in Mohammed Bin Zayed City in the City of Abu Dhabi and offers American-based curriculum to Grades 6 and 7. We cater for 617 Emirati students, all boys. Middle School US Curriculum of English, Maths, Science, Humanities and MOE subjects will be enhanced with a wide range of extracurricular activities that address the needs of all of our students.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi s leading school group.

Duties and Responsibilities

u>Main Duties/u>

Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth
Monitor the progress of individual students
Make contact with parents to discuss student behaviour
Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying
Help students develop job search skills, such as resume writing and interviewing techniques
Help students understand and deal with social, behaviour, and personal problems
Emphasize preventive and developmental counselling to provide students with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen and to enhance students personal, social, and academic growth.
Provide special services such as conflict resolution classes; identify cases of domestic abuse and other family problems that can affect a student s development

u>Specific Duties/u>

GROUP COUNSELLING:

Identifies areas that would be appropriate for intervention in the form of group counselling and regularly forms and leads appropriate groups.
Utilizes both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioural interventions.

CAREER COUNSELING:

Coordinates with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
Assists the counsellors in providing students with information for career exploration and selection to assist them in making appropriate academic course selections relating to their interests.
Maintains an appropriate library/database relating to various careers for students to utilize in their career explorations.

PERSONAL COUNSELLING:

Works with individual students and groups of students in regards to appropriate social development issues.
Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding social development of adolescents.
Monitors students who may be at risk in regards to social issues and makes appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents.

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