Craven County Schools

Job Description

Career Development Coordinator

Position: Career Development Coordinator

Reports to: CTE Director

Terms of Employment: Twelve-month work year, unless otherwise specified

Pay Grade: Beginning $37,000 Annually Supplement

FLSA Status: Exempt

Nature of Work: Professional career development coordinators who are adept at creating and utilizing systems for change, and at building relationships within the school community. Career development coordinators create nurturing relationships with students that enhance students’ academic achievement and personal success as globally productive citizens in the 21st century. Utilizing leadership, advocacy, and collaboration, professional career development coordinators promote academic and personal success by implementing a comprehensive career development coordinator program that encompasses areas of academic, career, and personal/social development for all students.

Certification and Licensure Requirements: Must hold or be qualified to hold a North Carolina Professional Educator’s License in: Career Development Coordinator - License Number: 747

Qualifying for a 747 License requires:

• A bachelor’s degree in a Career and Technical Education program area or a master’s degree in school counseling
• Current Continuing Professional License in a CTE program area
• Completion of NCDPI New CDC Induction

Career Development Coordinator Standards:

Standard I: Career development coordinators demonstrate leadership, advocacy, and collaboration.

1.01 Career development coordinators demonstrate leadership in the school, district, and community.

1.02 Career development coordinators enhance their profession. They strive to improve the profession by staying current in research and best practices.

1.03 Career development coordinators advocate for their programs and students.

1.04 Career development coordinators demonstrate high ethical standards. They demonstrate ethical behaviors.

Standard II: Career development coordinators promote a respectful environment for a diverse population of students.

2.01 Career development coordinators foster a school environment in which students have positive, nurturing relationships with caring adults.

2.02 Career development coordinators embrace diversity in the school community and in the world.

2.03 Career development coordinators treat students as individuals.

2.04 Career development coordinators adapt their services to accommodate diverse student populations.

2.05 Career development coordinators work collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of students.

Standard III: Career development coordinators understand and facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive career development program.

3.01 Career development coordinators align their programs to support student success in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

3.02 Career development coordinators understand how their professional knowledge and skills support and enhance student success.

3.03 Career development coordinators recognize the interconnectedness of the comprehensive education program and academic content areas/disciplines.

3.04 Career development coordinators develop comprehensive career development programs relevant to students.

Standard IV: Career development coordinators promote learning for all students.

4.01 Career development coordinators know how students learn. They understand the teaching and learning process and how it impacts students.

4.02 Career development coordinators help students develop employability skills. They assist all students with developing academic, career, and personal/social skills.

4.03 Career development coordinators use and promote effective listening and communication skills.

Standard V: Career development coordinators actively reflect on their practice.

5.01 Career development coordinators analyze the impact of the career development program.

5.02 Career development coordinators link professional growth to the needs of their school and their program goals.

5.03. Career development coordinators function effectively in a complex dynamic environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Solid understanding of research best practices.
• Understanding the growth and development of students
• Skilled in assessment and using its data for teaching and learning.
• Ability to meet the needs of all learners.
• Ability to motivate students.
• Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment.
• Ability to perform general clerical duties.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Ability to operate common technology.
• Ability to develop and compile records and reports.
• Ability to maintain basic files and records.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and oral form.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Requires the ability to speak effectively in order to exchange information.
• Ability to receive and perform instructions, assignments and directions from supervisors.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitates by work assignments.
• 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.
• Ability to exercise considerable tact and courtesy in frequent contact with the public.
• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
• Experience with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
• Experience with the use of technology in the delivery of instruction to students.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Employees in this job must be energetic and flexible and possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with records processes, and do extensive reading and research. Due to the amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

This specification has been designed to represent the general nature and level of work found in positions in this class. As such, it is not intended to contain all of the duties and qualifications required of an employee in a single position (job). Consequently, it is not to be perceived as a position (job) description or as identification of essential functions as required by ADA.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board and local policy on evaluation of personnel.