JOB OBJECTIVE:

Dedicated Career Readiness Coordinator with a passion for guiding students towards successful future careers. Committed to implementing comprehensive career development programs that equip students with essential skills, knowledge, and experiences for post-secondary success. Skilled in cultivating strong partnerships with industry professionals, educational institutions, and community organizations to provide diverse and enriching work-based learning opportunities. Proven ability to foster a culture of student empowerment, ensuring they graduate prepared for the demands of the modern workforce. Seeking to contribute expertise and enthusiasm to Canal Winchester’s mission of empowering all students for success.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, communications, or related field or equivalent combination of education and related experience
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse constituencies including students, classroom teachers, principals, district administrators, support specialists, community, agency staff, and business/industry
• Knowledge of the Ohio Department of Education’s Career Advising Policy and Career Connections Framework, as well as its role in the department’s Each Child Our Future Strategic Plan
• Knowledge of Ohio’s Career Tech compliance measures
• Knowledge of various work-based learning programs and the skills required to supervise a quality program
• Knowledge and skills to determine the impact and role work-based learning opportunities play in relation to career choices, graduation requirements, specially designed programs and career
• Excellent interpersonal
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple assignments and meet deadlines with minimal
• Demonstrated skill in oral and written

• Promotes awareness of the changing workforce needs to educate students, staff, and parents to best guide students to successful careers, including, but not limited to classroom visits, staff and parent communications and presentations
• Research, recruit and secure available CTE-specific opportunities with industry partners for students
• Implement and update the district’s college and career readiness platform with work-based learning opportunities, monitoring, and reporting
• Provide training to staff and students on utilizing college and career readiness platform for work-based learning tracking and other CTE components
• Determine Work-Based Learning guidelines and agreements and communicate to all appropriate parties
• Prepares CTE Work-based Learning students for placement and training, monitors and reports completion
• Assists in informing and coordinating district business advisory council
• Represent Canal Winchester Schools and Career Tech Programs at various networking events and coordinate and host job fairs, on/off site visits for employers to establish a relationship, identify and develop job opportunities for student participants,
• Report needs, trends, and outcomes to Director of Secondary Teaching & Learning