College Counselor - YES Prep Fifth Ward Secondary (Immediate Opening)
for each section heading. Only include sections when posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the description.
Job Description includes:
POSITION: College Counselor
REPORTS TO: Director of College Counseling
POSITION TYPE: 11-month
START DATE: 26-27 School Year
COMPENSATION: Starting at $62,000
Then narrative about YES Prep.
Then "THE ROLE" with bullet-like list (semicolon separated). Then "THE PERSON" with traits, must haves, nice to haves, must have beliefs. Then "EVERY OPPORTUNITY STARTS WITH A YES" paragraph. Then "THE PERKS" with compensation details, health insurance, retirement, PTO, paid leave, professional development, award winning culture.
We need to map to sections: About the role (maybe description of role), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (must haves), Qualifications (maybe education/experience?), Skills (maybe traits?), Benefits (perks), Pay (compensation), Schedule (position type, start date? maybe schedule info). We need to include only sections with real content.
We must not create sections with placeholder like "commensurate with experience" etc. For Pay we have "Starting at $62,000". That's specific. So we can include Pay section with that.
Schedule: Position type: 11-month, start date: 26-27 School Year. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section.
Benefits: The perks include health insurance, retirement, PTO, paid leave, professional development, award winning culture. So Benefits section.
About the role: maybe a brief paragraph describing role? Could be from "THE ROLE" heading? Actually "THE ROLE" includes responsibilities. Could treat that as Responsibilities. About the role could be a summary: "College Counselor at YES Prep..." but we need to avoid inventing. Could use the paragraph before THE ROLE: "When you join the YES Prep team, some of the exciting work and responsibilities will include:" That's basically responsibilities. So maybe we don't need separate About the role; we can put Responsibilities.
Requirements: Must haves: Bachelor's degree, at least 1 year experience in high school counseling/college admissions OR 1 year teaching Seminar in K-12, ability to work outside normal hours and weekends, belief in mission, openness to feedback, ability to maintain emotional control under stress, ability to work urgently in fast-paced environment, creates/maintains positive working relationships, dedication to learn/grow/develop. Also maybe "Bilingual Spanish" as nice to have.
Qualifications: Could be education and experience? Might overlap with Requirements. But we can treat Requirements as qualifications. However we need to follow instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which to include. We can include Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Possibly About the role could be omitted if not distinct.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So no College Counselor
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We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can group them.
Let's extract details:
- Position: College Counselor (title)
- Reports to: Director of College Counseling
- Position type: 11-month
- Start date: 26-27 School Year (likely 2026-2027)
- Compensation: Starting at $62,000
- Mission description: YES Prep creates pathways... (stats)
- Quick stats: list of numbers.
- Location: Houston, Texas.
- THE ROLE responsibilities (semicolon separated):
- Helping coordinate and host high school visits and college fairs college admissions representatives;
- Directly advising and counseling 40+ seniors and 40+ juniors per year and assist with all aspects of our comprehensive college counseling program;
- Working with the Director of College Counseling to support campus-based alumni programming;
- Working with college counseling department, as well as appropriate YES grade level chairs, selected course leaders and/or seminar teachers, and campus-based instructional support leaders, to plan, coordinate and facilitate the Seminar Program across the 9th-12th grade levels;
- Teaching up to four seminar classes each day during the school year, most likely Senior Seminar section (College 101) and Junior Seminar courses on the preparation for the college admissions process;
- Executing student, family, and staff programming as it relates to the areas of Financial Aid and Scholarships, House Bill 1403/Senate Bill 1528 (working with undocumented students), Testing and Preparation, College Visitations Program, and Student Opportunities / Enrichment programs and college counseling parent engagement;
- Assisting with specific projects and areas as determined by the Director of College Counseling and/or Principal (based on expertise and knowledge base of college counselor);
- Additional duties as assigned.
- THE PERSON traits:
- Certain traits consistently shine through for our most successful employees: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, and humility.
- Other traits needed and desired for this role are:
- MUST HAVES:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university
- At least 1 year of experience in either the high school counseling and/or college admissions field OR 1 year teaching Seminar in K-12
- Ability to work outside of normal hours and on weekends
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
- Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback
- Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
- Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment
- Creates and maintains positive working relationships on a team and/or in a highly collaborative environment
- A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional
- NICE TO HAVES:
- Bilingual Spanish
- THE MUST HAVE BELIEFS:
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core values of YES Prep Public Schools
- Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education
- Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos
- Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results
- Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth
- EVERY OPPORTUNITY STARTS WITH A YES paragraph: basically mission statement.
- THE PERKS:
- Compensation – This position is an exempt, salaried position; salary offers commensurate with experience.
- Health and Supplemental Insurance – A $0 monthly medical option and a plan that includes $600 towards a Health Savings Account, in addition to a variety of supplemental benefits including Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, etc. Employees must work 20+ hours a week to be eligible for a full spectrum of benefits, and 10 hours a week minimum for medical benefits.
- Retirement Plans – Participation in Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a 457b Retirement Plan.
- Paid Time Off – Employees working 20+ hours a week receive 12 days of Paid Time Off when working the full duty schedule in addition to the system closures during the Academic Calendar. PTO days will be pro-rated based on start dates within the assigned duty schedule.
- Paid Leave Programming – In the event you need to be out due to medical needs (including maternity and paternity leave), YES Prep offers paid leave, paid at 100%, based on eligibility and tenure.
- Professional Development - YES Prep values longevity and performance over time. We invest in developing leaders through high-quality programs, effective coaching, and ongoing professional development.
- Award Winning Culture – The strong cultures of our campuses and Home Office are just one of many reasons we were named Houston’s Best Place To Work in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2025. We won the 2012 Broad Prize for Excellence in Urban Education and were a 2016 finalist as well.
- EEO statement (remove boilerplate). So we should remove EEO.
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containing the position info? But position title is already shown elsewhere; we should not repeat as heading. We can include it in a paragraph maybe? The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". It doesn't forbid including it in a paragraph. But we could avoid repeating it altogether; but we need to preserve all substantive information. The job title is substantive but maybe it's okay to omit because page already shows it. The instruction says do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. It doesn't say we cannot include it elsewhere. But to be safe, we could include it in a paragraph as part of description? However they said "the page already shows it", implying we don't need to repeat it at all. So we can omit the title entirely from our fragment. That's okay because they said do NOT repeat as a heading, but not forbid elsewhere. But to be safe, we can omit it. We need to include position type, start date, reports to maybe in About the role or Schedule. Let's decide sections: - About the role: maybe a brief paragraph summarizing role and mission. Could include the YES Prep mission description and quick stats. But we need to avoid filler. We have real content: mission description, quick stats, location. So we can put that in About the role. - Responsibilities: list from THE ROLE. - Requirements: Must haves (Bachelor's degree, experience, ability to work outside hours, belief in mission, openness to feedback, emotional control, fast-paced, positive relationships, dedication to learn). Also maybe "Bilingual Spanish" as nice to have could go under Skills? Or we could have Skills section for traits like passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility, etc. But we need to decide. - Qualifications: Could be education and experience (Bachelor's degree, 1 year experience). But that overlaps with Requirements. Perhaps we treat Requirements as the must-haves, Qualifications as education/experience, Skills as personal traits, Benefits as perks, Pay as compensation, Schedule as position type and start date. Let's map: About the role: mission description, quick stats, location. Responsibilities: the list of duties. Requirements: Must haves (excluding nice to have and beliefs). Could also include "Ability to work outside of normal hours and on weekends", "Belief in and commitment to the mission", etc. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree from accredited four-year college/university; at least 1 year experience in high school counseling/college admissions OR 1 year teaching Seminar in K-12. Skills: Traits: passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility; openness to feedback; ability to maintain emotional control under