Work Learning Specialist

The Center School to Career/Work-Based Learning Program Coordinator is responsible for planning and directing the program, coordinating administrative aspects, and ensuring student needs are met. The role involves creating positive working relationships with coworkers, assisting students in adjusting to Center life, providing supervision, behavior modification, counseling, and acting as a positive role model and mentor.

• Create effective working relationships with colleagues.
• Support students in transitioning to Center life, offering supervision, behavioral guidance, counseling, and serving as a positive influence and mentor.
• Ensure timely professional assistance with high customer service standards.
• Prepare reports, forms, and documents, noting student behavior, performance, progress, and goals.
• Maintain confidentiality, reporting significant events or situations immediately.
• Facilitate prompt assistance in injury, illness, or emotional trauma situations.
• Meet individually with assigned students monthly, documenting meetings in case notes.
• Ensure equipment and work areas are clean and maintained according to Center, CSD, and DOL standards.
• Collaborate with staff, employers, labor, and community to establish positive work-based learning sites.
• Plan and coordinate activities to bring together persons from education, training, and industry for the success of the school-to-Career/Work-Based Learning program.
• Generate work site opportunities matching trainee capabilities and needs with employer requirements.
• Coordinate with the Center Safety Officer to inspect prospective WBL sites prior to student assignment.
• Educate potential employers on tours, serve as guest speaker on and off campus to promote the School to Career program.
• Serve as liaison between the Center and various work sites, career development departments, and vocational training programs.
• Schedule and transport trainees to work sites as needed.
• Visit work sites to monitor trainee progress.
• Counsel trainees on evaluations.
• Substitute teach to allow vocational instructors to visit work sites periodically.
• Submit required reports.
• Develop and implement the Advanced Training Program based on goals and objectives.
• Explore college opportunities for students, meet with college personnel, and conduct tours of the center.
• Assist students in registering for classes, scheduling, and other matters related to college enrollment.
• Monitor student attendance, progress, and performance while enrolled in College Program.
• Conduct individual and group counseling sessions regarding educational and personal development.

Requirements

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or 4 years of experience working with youth, 2 years in marketing, sales, or counseling.

Preferred

Supervisory experience.

Knowledge

Good understanding of the local community and employer base, excellent verbal and written communication skills, organizational skills, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, valid state driver's license, ability to relate to trainees and staff at all levels, and ability to read, interpret, and analyze labor trend studies.

Physical Requirements

Frequently: Sitting, seeing, hearing, speaking.

Occasionally: Standing, walking, bending, stooping, squatting, flexibility.

Seldom: Climbing, lifting 50 pounds, carrying, kneeling, pushing/pulling, running, driving.

Environmental Demands

Ability to operate office equipment, occasionally works alone, 85% of time spent working and interacting with team and other departments, reading and writing at a college level.