Career and Technical Education Director

Bristol Tennessee City Schools•Bristol, TN

About The Position

The Career and Technical Education Director is responsible for ensuring that students enrolled in Career and Technical education programs receive high-quality instruction and training that equips them with the skills, knowledge, and intellectual foundation necessary to successfully enter post-secondary education or workforce, pursue continued personal and professional growth, and adapt as lifelong learners. The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by employees in this job. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Requirements

Either a professional administrator/instructional leader license or must hold at least a bachelor’s degree with a major in career and technical education with at least 3 years of teaching experience in an approved CTE program and at least 2 years in an industry-related field.
A valid Tennessee principal or administrator license is required.
Knowledge of Secondary and postsecondary CTE program design, implementation, and evaluation
Federal and state regulations governing CTE funding, reporting, and compliance requirements
Current industry trends, workforce development needs, and career pathway alignment
Skill in Instructional leadership, including teacher evaluation, curriculum development, and professional development planning
Managing budgets, grants, and procurement of equipment and materials
Building partnerships with business, industry, higher education, and community stakeholders
Ability to Interpret and apply local, state, and federal guidelines to ensure program effectiveness and compliance
Effectively supervise, support, and evaluate staff while promoting a culture of continuous improvement
Collect, analyze, and report data to inform decision-making, measure outcomes, and guide program direction
Adaptability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure; accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity; dealing with students; generalizing, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.
Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; reason and make judgments; understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them; perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately; move the hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers; make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures; perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Responsibilities

Supervises career and technical education for grades 6-12.
Supervises work-based learning coordinator and programming.
Assists the principals in hiring, assignment, supervision, evaluation, and coordination of staff assigned to the departments of responsibility.
Reviews purchasing requests from assigned staff and submits for processing.
Establishes and submits, in writing, annual goals and objectives in the areas of curriculum and professional improvement in the departments of responsibility.
Establishes relationships with local employers and workforce development groups to strengthen employment opportunities for students and to better understand local workforce needs.
Develops, maintains, and coordinates the curriculum in the departments of responsibility.
Develops and maintains an observation schedule for staff in departments of responsibility and completes required evaluations as appropriate.
Completes applications to state and federal agencies as necessary to obtain funding.
Maintains appropriate records as required by state and federal agencies and completes required state and federal reports as it relates to district CTE programs.
Supports CTE career awareness and preparation in grades K-5.
Conducts departmental staff meetings and provides typed agendas for each meeting.
Attends all administrative meetings as required.
Manages CTE local and grant funded budgets and submits requests for approved instructional supplies and equipment in the departments of responsibility.
Procures, distributes, inventories, and maintains all textbooks, instructional materials, and equipment in the departments of responsibility.
Supports strategic, district and school planning related to CTE outcomes.
Performs other related duties as assigned.