Career Development Coordinator

Career Development Coordinator

Job Description

Major Functions

The Career Development Coordinator (CDC) role is to support Career and Technical Education (CTE) and to coordinate career development services for students participating in CTE. The CDC works collaboratively with administrators, student services personnel, and teachers to ensure the delivery of career development services. CDCs facilitate linkages with parents, business/industry, postsecondary institutions, and community organizations to support students’ transition to postsecondary education and employment. The CDC's responsibilities incorporate the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, National Career Development Guidelines, the National Model for School Counseling Programs and Future-Ready Students For the 21st Century.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate career development services.
• Promote career awareness, exploration, and planning.
• Provide career development, occupational, labor market, non-traditional career, and post-secondary
• Assists students with selection of appropriate academic and CTE courses.
• Coordinate career planning activities in classrooms, groups, or individual sessions.
• Provide and coordinate administration and interpretation of career assessments.
• Provide information on postsecondary education programs and employment opportunities.
• Assist students with postsecondary education and employment opportunities.
• Facilitate work-based learning opportunities.
• Provide and coordinate activities for students to develop employability skills.
• Promote the integration of career research and work-based learning opportunities into CTE and academic courses.
• Promote the use of technology for career planning and research.
• Facilitate business, education, and community partnerships that provide opportunities for students and support CTE.
• Serve as a liaison with the business, industry, education, and military community.
• Publicize partnership resources.
• Participate in professional development activities at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
• Engage in professional growth opportunities to remain current with trends, demands, and emerging careers in a rapidly changing workforce.
• Coordinate with CDC, guidance, CTE teachers, and CTSO’s to promote recruitment, enrollment, and placement activities for prospective and current students in CTE.
• Provide information about CTE opportunities to prospective and current CTE students and their parents.
• Assist with district-wide CTE event planning.
• Treats all students in a fair and equitable manner.
• Interacts effectively with students, co-workers, parents and the community.
• Participates in, upon request, PSU communities designed to plan for various aspects of the total career and technical education program.
• Adheres to establish laws, policies, rules and regulations

Special Populations Coordinator Job Description: Major Functions

Please note that “special populations” means that the identified students have been or are currently enrolled in CTE courses.

1. Accountability and Planning: Special Populations Coordinator should –
2. Assist school and CTE administrators in identifying programs that need improvement to assist special populations students in meeting the performance indicators.
3. Assist school and CTE administrators in providing strategies to improve supplementary services for members of special populations in meeting the performance indicators.
4. Maintain relevant record-keeping and inventory systems related to job responsibilities. d. Coordinate with school and CTE administrators, and other service providers to develop an annual plan of work based on the evaluation and needs assessment results to ensure that students within special populations are receiving adequate supplementary services and career planning.
5. Assessment and Prescription: Special Populations Coordinator should –
6. Identify students within special populations each semester, and provide information to CTE teachers, and suggest possible teaching strategies.
7. Coordinate with CDC and assess the characteristics of students using interest inventories, learning style assessments, or similar instruments.
8. With input from the CTE teachers, individually develop, implement and monitor the CDP .
9. Participate on the IEP Team for students enrolled in CTE courses, as needed, in the development and implementation of the CTE and transition components of the IEP.
10. Coordinate special services for special populations students.
11. Maintain a CTE resource laboratory for members of special populations and CTE teachers. g. Assist with transition services for special populations students.
12. Coordination with Other Service Providers: Special Populations Coordinator should –
13. Collaborate with CTE teachers and other relevant service providers in providing services to special populations students.
14. Coordinate with data managers, IMC, special education, vocational rehabilitation, community agencies, businesses/industry, and others to provide supplementary services to members of special populations.
15. Facilitate in-service training for school personnel working with students within special populations to improve their abilities and techniques in meeting the special needs of these students.
16. Monitor the CTE component of the IEP and CDP to ensure that appropriate supplementary services are provided and performance indicators are met.
17. Coordinate work experiences and educational trips for special populations students where appropriate.
18. Monitoring Access, Progress, and Success: Special Populations Coordinator should –
19. Monitor LEA, School, and course demographic and attainment data to assist in determining maintenance and improvement of access, progress, and success of students within special populations in CTE programs.
20. Assist in assessing the attainment of performance indicators for students within special populations.
21. Outreach and Recruitment: Special Populations Coordinator should –
22. Coordinate with CDC, guidance, CTE teachers, and CTSOs to promote recruitment, enrollment, and placement activities for special populations students in CTE.
23. Provide information about CTE opportunities to special populations students and their parents.
24. Professional Development: Special Populations Coordinator should:
25. Attend workshops and meetings designed to enhance job performance.
26. Network with other Special Populations Coordinators in LEA, region and state.

Qualifications

Candidates must be licensed or eligible to be licensed as both a CTE Career Development Coordinator and CTE Special Populations Coordinator.

Career Development Coordinator and Special Populations Coordinator Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. A bachelor’s degree and current educator license in a Career and Technical Education program area or a master’s degree in school counseling and a current license in school counseling 
2. One or more of the following: 

• One-year related work experience within the past 5 years as a Career and Technical Education program area teacher, career development coordinator, school counselor
• One year of industry-related career development work experience in business, industry, or labor within the past five years 
• One year as a coordinator of work-based learning (job-shadowing, internships, cooperative education, apprenticeships) in a Career and Technical Education program area within the past five years 
• One year as a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) adviser within the past five years or 
• One year work experience in school counseling. 

1. Completion of the NC DPI sponsored Facilitating Career Development or 6 semester hours as defined in CTED-004 4. Completion of 10-hour Induction for new CDCs sponsored by NCDPI.
2. Completion of 12 semester hours as defined in CTED-004 or completion of the NC DPI sponsored Special Populations course and the NC DPI sponsored Facilitating Career Development course.