School to Career Coordinator

FTE: 1.0

Qualifications: 

93 License Career and Technical Education Coordinator (formally LVEC) preferred

Certified Career Technical Education experience preferred

Ability to work with administration, guidance, special needs and teaching staff in School to Career initiatives

Knowledge of grant writing, program evaluation and state School to Career initiatives

Ability to collaborate with the business/industry community on School to Career initiatives

Effective public relations skills

Good communication and leadership skills

Job Goal: To provide leadership in the development, implementation, articulation, evaluation, and communication of the 6-12 Career Technical Education Program for the School District of Hudson, Wisconsin.

Essential Functions:

Facilitates Career Technical Education  curriculum improvement process

Leads district Academic Career Planning implementation, including articulated pathways aligned to DPI’s career clusters, ongoing professional development, and lesson development for advisors and other related staff

Coordinates District’s work-based learning programs (School-Based Enterprises, and Youth Apprenticeship, On the Job Training)

Coordinates articulation agreements and  creates supported pathways with post-secondary education institutions that result in post-secondary credentials

Promotes Career Technical Education activities through direct interaction with students, parents, staff, and community members utilizing various means of communication

Applies for sources of funding and manages budgets for Career Technical Education initiatives supported by grant work (Carl Perkins and others)

Assumes the role of School Based Coordinator for the St. Croix Valley Youth Apprenticeship Consortium

Coordinates surveys, reports, and follow-up studies as needed by the local, state and federal agencies.

Creates broad-based partnerships and Career Technical Education Advisory Councils among employers, labor, education, government, and community organizations to participate in the design, development, and administration of local Career and Technical Education programs

Incorporates skill standards and credentialing procedures developed at national, state, and local levels into District Career and Technical Education programming

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This work regularly requires sitting, standing, walking, speaking, hearing and occasionally requires pushing, pulling, lifting, and operating machines; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, and observing general surroundings and activities; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. school offices/classrooms/passageways).

Reports to:  Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning