Career and Technical Education Career Development Coordinator

Position Title: Career and Technical Education Career Development Coordinator

Term of Employment: Full-Time; 11 months

Reports To: Principal/ Director of Career and Technical Education

Pay Information: State Salary Scale; 6.25% local supplement

General Statement of Job

• The primary purpose of this position is to provide and coordinate career development services to students in local schools and school systems.

Essential Job Functions

• Career Development: Career development services within the CTE department include, but are not limited to, the creation of personalized career development plans, and the use of career interest inventories. The Career & Technical Education Coordinator will act as the back-up resource for the school-level work-based learning process. This position will also be the lead for school-level career fairs and events.
• Testing/Accountability: The Career & Technical Education Coordinator will act as the BuildingLevel Testing Coordinator for the Career & Technical Education state post-assessment process. The coordinator will participate in Career & Technical Education post-assessment training and administration. The coordinator will be responsible for providing a list of Concentrators to the school-level Testing Coordinator in preparation for the ACT Work Keys test administration.
• Curriculum Support: The Career & Technical Education Coordinator will manage the purchase request process for the department to help teachers maintain equipment and supplies. The coordinator will audit the CTE Honors process to assure that teachers are completing all honors portfolios. This position will be the responsible party for any adjustment to Programs of Study that take place at the school-level, by communicating state and district changes to school administrators, counselors, and data managers. The coordinator will also provide guidance for school-level summer camps.
• Instructional Coaching: The Career & Technical Education Coordinator will act as an Instructional Coach, to support teachers within an assigned feeder pattern. The coordinator will support teachers within the department through cooperative instructional strategies, including team teaching and lesson planning.
• Inventory Management: The Career & Technical Education Coordinator is the keeper of the Career & Technical Education inventory process. This position will maintain and keep accurate records of all inventory within the CTE department.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, SmartBoard, and data projectors.
• Ability to listen and communicate effectively in order to gather, convey or exchange information, including giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Ability to respond appropriately to inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and prepare various kinds of communication and information including emails, correspondence, reports, articles, spreadsheets, staff development plans, educational forms and data.
• Ability to interpret, infer, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate materials, resources, situations and problems to generate options and solutions.
• Ability to effectively express ideas orally and in writing.
• Ability to listen and communicate effectively in order to gather, convey or exchange information including giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Additional assignments as assigned by the supervisor.

Minimum Training and Experience

• A bachelor's degree in a Career & Technical Education program area.
• Hold, or be able to obtain, the Career Development Coordinator license (747)
• Hold, or be able to obtain, the Instructional Management Coordinator license (830)
• Complete Instructional Coaching Training (i.e., Constructive Learning Design)

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 20 pounds of force. Work regularly requires speaking or hearing, frequently requires standing, walking and sitting and occasionally requires using hands to finger, handle or feel, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, lifting and repetitive motions. Work has standard vision requirements. Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly. 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. Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic)
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, contracts, policies, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.