Interim Part-Time High School Counselor (Maternity Leave) - Kohelet Yeshiva

Kohelet Yeshiva High School, a private Modern Orthodox Jewish High School in Lower Merion, PA, seeks a temporary part-time Guidance Counselor for around mid-November through January of the 2024-2025 School year. 

The interim part-time Counselor will be responsible for providing social and emotional support and counseling services to high school students, working closely with and reporting to the Director of Guidance and Student Support.  Responsibilities will include individual and small group meetings with students as well as consulting with teachers about implementing personalized plans developed to provide support for students.  The interim part-time Counselor will work with the Director of Guidance and Student Support to help ensure the emotional and behavioral needs of our students are being met, will also act as a liaison with any other mental health professionals servicing a student and will serve as a member of the school’s Student Support Team.  The interim counselor will also be responsible for an “advisory group” of 9th grade girls. Those responsibilities include leading weekly discussions about SEL topics during advisory periods and being a point-person within the school for those students’ wellbeing.  Other duties may be assigned in consultation with the Director of Guidance and Student Support and the school administration.  

Kohelet Yeshiva is a warm and embracing Modern Orthodox yeshiva day school committed to cultivating Bnei and Bnot Torah who think critically and creatively while exuding confidence and compassion.  We are looking for a reflective candidate who is passionate about helping adolescents and who enjoys working in an environment that promotes continuing professional learning.

The ideal candidate :

• Has a Master’s degree social work, counseling, or a related mental health field and related licensing 

• Has experience working directly with high school-aged children

• Has a deep commitment to seeing the whole child and comprehensively assessing their strengths, challenges, and needs

• Possesses outstanding communication and interpersonal skills

• Is organized, efficient, punctual, and reliable

• Is kind, warm, and committed to collaboration

Position begins mid-December 2024.  For more information about Kohelet Yeshiva, please visit the school’s website.  To apply please send a letter of interest and resume to Sara Kalish, Director of Guidance, at skalish@koheletyeshiva.org