Director of College Counseling

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