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Students’ Counselor Job at Makerere University Business School (MUBS)
Makerere University Business School (MUBS)
Job Description
Makerere University Business School (MUBS) is hiring a Students’ Counselor responsible for offering students ethical, professional counseling that supports their mental well-being, academic resilience, and personal growth at MUBS. The role reports to the Dean of Students and is graded under salary scale PU 7 Non-Science.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide individual and group sessions for academic stress, mental health, relationships, career decisions, and life transitions; prioritizing rapport, safety, and student-paced disclosure, grounded in Ugandan counseling ethics and trauma-informed practice.
- Conduct thoughtful psycho social assessments and risk evaluations; develop interventions that respect the time trust takes to build. Coordinate warm, timely referrals to specialized services (e.g., psychiatric care, NGOs) when needed.
- Co-create orientation, mentorship, and wellness initiatives like workshops on stress, resilience, sexual health, substance use that are culturally relevant, student-informed, and Skill-bullding.
- Collaborate with academic staff, Health Services, Disability Resource & Learning Centre, and external providers to ensure coordinated care sharing information only with consent and clear purpose.
- Maintain confidential case notes In approved systems, ensuring accuracy, minimal necessary detail, and compliance with Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019.
- Gather anonymized insights on student welfare trends to inform programming. policy, and resource decisions, reporting concisely while safeguarding individual identities.
- Advocate for counseling approaches that honor diversity, reduce stigma, and reflect MUBS’s commitment to ethical, well-rounded graduate formation.
- Engage in clinical supervision, continuing learning, and reflective practice as essential self-care and professional integrity. Contribute to unit learning through case reflection or student success initiatives.
- Participate in on-call rosters, emergency response. and campus wellbeing efforts, responding to urgent concerns with calm competence, while knowing when to seek support.
- Perform any other related duties as may be assigned by the Dean of Students from time to time.
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