JOB POSITION
STUDENT CAREER COUNSELLOR
JOB LOCATION
“GREEN ACRES”, Village Machwa, Near Sushant City, Kalwar Road, Jaipur 303706, Rajasthan.
ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE
Jal Bhagirathi Foundation is one of India’s leading non-governmental organisations, working to enable community-led, integrated water resource management.
Over the years, the Foundation has achieved significant growth across multiple sectors, driven by its expanding programmes in sustainable development, water security, and community empowerment. We offer young professionals a meaningful opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute to transformative work among communities facing poverty and deprivation.
JBF is looking for self-driven individuals who wish to build a career in the development sector and share the Foundation’s vision. The role provides exposure to practical field-based work, sustainable development initiatives, and community-led institutional processes. Young professionals who are committed, motivated, and aligned with the Foundation’s values are invited to become part of our team. For more information about the Foundation, please visit: www.jalbhagirathi.org.
JOB SUMMARY
The Student Career Counsellor will anchor the project’s academic coaching, mentorship, career guidance, and student development component. This is the most directly transformative pillar of the project, as it works closely with individual students to strengthen their academic performance, confidence, career awareness, and readiness for higher education or vocational pathways.
The role will focus primarily on identifying meritorious and aspirational students from underserved communities, mainly from Classes 11 and 12, and supporting them through structured academic coaching, personalised mentorship, career planning, vocational exposure, and psychosocial guidance. The Counsellor will also coordinate sessions on values, ethics, discipline, confidence-building, and character development, while ensuring that parents remain active partners in the academic and personal growth of their children.
The ultimate objective of the role is to enable at least 300 students from underserved communities to successfully transition into higher education, professional courses, skill-based training, or meaningful vocational pathways.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Student Identification and Profiling
The Student Career Counsellor shall identify meritorious, motivated, and aspirational students in Classes 11 and 12 across project schools. Selection shall be based on academic performance, motivation levels, socio-economic
background, personal aspirations, and the potential to benefit from structured academic and career support.
The Counsellor shall prepare and maintain detailed student profiles, including academic records, family background, interests, strengths, challenges, career aspirations, and support requirements.
2. Academic Coaching and Subject Support
The Counsellor shall deliver, facilitate, or coordinate structured academic coaching for students across Science, Commerce, and Humanities streams, aligned with the applicable Central Board of Secondary Education or Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education curriculum.
The role shall include identifying learning gaps, arranging subject-wise support, monitoring attendance and performance in coaching sessions, and ensuring that students receive timely academic assistance before examinations and key assessment periods.
3. Mentorship and Personalised Guidance
The Counsellor shall conduct regular one-on-one mentoring sessions with identified students to review academic progress, set achievable goals, address personal or academic challenges, and provide encouragement and guidance.
Each student shall receive individualised support based on his or her academic performance, family circumstances, confidence level, career interests, and future pathway. The Counsellor shall maintain records of mentoring interactions and follow up on agreed action points.
4. Study Skills and Examination Preparation
The Counsellor shall conduct workshops and practical sessions on time management, study planning, note-making, revision techniques, examination strategy, stress management, and effective learning habits.
Special attention shall be given to students preparing for Class 12 board examinations, entrance examinations, competitive assessments, scholarships, and admission processes for higher education institutions.
5. Career Guidance and Higher Education Pathways
The Counsellor shall organise career awareness sessions to expose students to diverse academic, professional, and vocational pathways beyond conventional choices. This shall include information on undergraduate courses, professional degrees, diploma programmes, government schemes, scholarships, entrance examinations, vocational institutes, and employability-linked courses.
The Counsellor shall help students make informed decisions based on their aptitude, academic record, interests, financial circumstances, and long-term goals.
6. Vocational Skills Training
The Counsellor shall coordinate with Subject Matter Experts, training partners, and vocational institutions to facilitate practical skills training for interested students.
The vocational pathways may include, among others, plumbing, electrical work, mobile phone repair, beautician courses, tailoring, basic computer skills, digital literacy, and other locally relevant trades or employability-linked skills.
The Counsellor shall ensure that vocational options are presented with dignity and as meaningful livelihood pathways, particularly for students who may not immediately pursue formal higher education.
7. Psychosocial Support and Student Well-being
The Counsellor shall provide basic psychosocial support to students facing stress, low confidence, family pressure, academic anxiety, or uncertainty about the future. The role shall require sensitive listening, regular encouragement, and timely referral to specialised support wherever required.
The Counsellor shall create a safe and supportive environment in which students feel comfortable discussing academic, personal, and career-related concerns.
8. Values, Ethics, and Character Development
The Counsellor shall coordinate and facilitate sessions on values, ethics, discipline, responsibility, gender sensitivity, civic conduct, leadership, communication, and character development.
These sessions shall aim to build not only employable and educated students, but also responsible, confident, and socially aware young citizens.
9. Parent Engagement
The Counsellor shall ensure regular engagement with parents and guardians so that they become active partners in the student’s academic and career journey.
This shall include parent meetings, home visits where necessary, counselling sessions, progress updates, and discussions on higher education, vocational choices, financial planning, and the importance of continued education.
10. Monitoring, Documentation, and Reporting
The Counsellor shall maintain accurate records of student selection, academic progress, mentoring sessions, attendance, parent meetings, coaching support, vocational training participation, examination results, scholarship applications, and higher education or vocational placements.
The Counsellor shall prepare periodic reports for the project team, highlighting progress, challenges, student success stories, dropout risks, and corrective actions required.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
The candidate should preferably hold a postgraduate degree in Education, Psychology, Social Work, Counselling, Human Development, Sociology, or a related discipline. A degree or diploma in career counselling, guidance counselling, educational counselling, or adolescent development will be an added advantage.
The candidate should have prior experience in student counselling, academic mentoring, school-based programmes, career guidance, youth development, education projects, or work with underserved communities.
Experience of working with senior secondary students, especially Classes 11 and 12, will be strongly preferred. Familiarity with Central Board of Secondary Education and Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education curricula, higher education admission processes, scholarship opportunities, and vocational training systems will be useful.
The candidate must possess strong communication skills, empathy, patience, discipline, documentation ability, and the capacity to work closely with students, parents, teachers, school leadership, and external experts.
The candidate should be comfortable conducting group sessions, individual counselling, workshops, parent meetings, and field-level follow-up. Fluency in Hindi and English is essential.
KEY COMPETENCIES
The Student Career Counsellor should demonstrate the ability to build trust with adolescents, assess student potential, provide practical guidance, motivate students from disadvantaged backgrounds, coordinate academic and vocational support, and maintain high-quality records.
The candidate must be self-driven, field-oriented, organised, ethical, and committed to the educational and personal advancement of students from underserved communities.
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Sector, or related field. Fluency in computers, English, and Hindi is essential. Good community mobilisation and communication skills, along with at least 8-10 years in development projects, social enterprises, or other contexts comparable to the requirements of the position.
REMUNERATION
Budgeted consolidated remuneration is Rs.18 lacs per annum, depending on the evaluation of the candidate’s potential, qualification, experience, and job retention ability. We provide enormous opportunities for individual career growth to those who excel in a challenging work environment.
LAST DATE & ADDRESS FOR APPLICATIONS
The last date of application is 20th June 2026. All applications should be sent with a cover letter to the following contact address: hr@jalbhagirathi.org