Career and Technical Education Career Development Coordinator

Stanly County Schools • Albemarle, NC

5h • Onsite

About The Position

The primary purpose of this position is to provide and coordinate career development services to students in local schools and school systems. This role involves creating personalized career development plans, utilizing career interest inventories, acting as a backup for the school-level work-based learning process, and leading school-level career fairs and events. Additionally, the coordinator will manage the purchase request process for the CTE department, audit the CTE Honors process, be responsible for adjustments to Programs of Study, and provide guidance for school-level summer camps. The position also includes acting as an Instructional Coach to support teachers within an assigned feeder pattern through cooperative instructional strategies like team teaching and lesson planning. The coordinator is also responsible for the CTE inventory process, maintaining accurate records of all inventory within the department.

Requirements

• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc.
• 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.
• Ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
• Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools.
• Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Create personalized career development plans for students.
• Utilize career interest inventories.
• Act as a backup resource for the school-level work-based learning process.
• Lead school-level career fairs and events.
• Manage the purchase request process for the CTE department.
• Audit the CTE Honors process to ensure teachers complete all honors portfolios.
• Communicate state and district changes to school administrators, counselors, and data managers regarding Programs of Study adjustments.
• Provide guidance for school-level summer camps.
• Act as an Instructional Coach to support teachers within an assigned feeder pattern.
• Support teachers within the department through cooperative instructional strategies, including team teaching and lesson planning.
• Maintain and keep accurate records of all inventory within the CTE department.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level