**Summary**:
**About the Position**:This position is a School Counselor (Middle) position located at Aviano Middle High School in Aviano, Italy. This vacancy is for the 2025-2026 school year. **This job is open to**:
**The public**: - U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. **Veterans**: - Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference **Military spouses**: - Military spouses of active duty service members or whose spouse is 100 percent disabled or died on active duty. **Family of overseas employees**: - Family members of a federal employee or uniformed service member who is or was, working overseas. **Clarification from the agency**:
**Duties**: - Support students to meet or exceed grade-level standards.
- Create school climate conductive to learning, achievement, and citizenship.
- Maintain individual and class records using the school information system.
- Participate in DoDEA system-wide assessments programs. **Requirements**:
**Conditions of employment**: - Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
- Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- Two-year trial period may be required.
- This position requires a Tier 1 (T1) investigation with Childcare Checks since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.
- You may be required to sign a mobility agreement, be available for worldwide placement, and be willing to rotate to any DoDEA location. **Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply**:U.S. Citizens To qualify, you must meet the education requirements described below:




**State or Territory Certification/License.** A valid fully professional state teaching license in content areas or the state's equivalent (as DoDEA determines comparable to DoDEA's teacher categories) will be accepted as fulfilling all qualifications for professional teaching education and certification in content areas. To receive full reciprocity the license must be unencumbered, which means a license that is not revoked, suspended, or made probationary or conditional by the state licensing board of education. The Praxis I and II or seven years of teaching at the Prek-12 level can be substituted in lieu of an unencumbered license and will require all minimum education requirements, a student teaching/internship and full qualification standards must all be met. Applicant's claiming military spouse preference under the MSLRA will receive consideration for an encumbered license. **Student Teaching or an Internship.** Student teaching or an internship as part of an approved teacher education program in an accredited U.S. institution is required. In the absence of an approved student teaching or internship program, applicants may be given credit for one year of successful full-time employment as an educator. Since that one year of employment substitutes for a course, no credit may be given for pay purposes.
- (Note: Speech Language Pathologists, Social Workers, School Nurses, Guidance Counselors, School Psychologists,



JROTC Instructors and non-certified Training Instructors are excluded from the student teaching requirement.)_ **QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS**: Must be currently certified or able to obtain DoDEA certification as a 0491 School Counselor (Middle). If you are NOT currently DoDEA certified in this category, official transcripts MUST be provided. Failure to provide official transcripts will result in loss of consideration. **Education**:
**FOREIGN EDUCATION**: Foreign Degrees and Course Work from Non-accredited Institutions. Credits or degrees earned from a foreign college or university must be evaluated prior to acceptance. Three evaluation procedures are acceptable: - The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced by an American university or a state department of education); and
- The work may be evaluated by the graduate division of a regionally accredited university and declared the equivalent of similar undergraduate or graduate work in a U.S. institution. Graduates of non-accredited institutions may have their undergraduate work validated by admittance to graduate school and completion of a minimum of 5 semester hours of credit in a regionally accredited graduate college. Failure to provide all the required information as stated in the vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating. **Additional information**: - Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Fam

📌 School Counselor (Middle) (Aviano)
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📍 Aviano