Career Development Coordinator

EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Career Development Coordinator

QUALIFICATIONS:

              Current Continuing Professional License in a CTE program area or current
              Continuing Professional license as School Counselor at the G level

Required Credentials:
              1. NCDPI Facilitating Career Development Course or
              2. NC Works Training Center Facilitating Career Development Course and NC DPI
                  New CDC Induction or
              3. Six semester hours (3 hours in Counseling Theory and 3 hours of Career
                  Development and Counseling or Career and life planning or Career Development
                  Occupational Information) and NCDPI New CDC Induction

Reports to: Principal or designee and CTE Coordinator

Terms of Employment: 10 months 

Purpose:

               The Career Development Coordinator (CDC) works collaboratively with                                 administrators, student services personnel, teachers, parents, business/industry,                 postsecondary institutions, military, community organizations, and other                             stakeholders to ensure the delivery of career development services for students.

Description of Responsibilities:

                The Career Development Coordinators (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 CDCs 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                    Career Development Coordinator responsibilities are outlined as follows.

Standard I: Development coordinators demonstrate leadership, advocacy, and collaboration. 

               1.01 Career development coordinators demonstrate leadership in the school,                       district and community.
               1.02 Career development coordinators enhance their profession. They strive to                     improve the profession by staying current in research and best practices.
               1.03 Career development coordinators advocate for their programs and students.
               1.04 Career development coordinators demonstrate high ethical standards. They                 demonstrate ethical behaviors.

Standard II: Career development coordinators promote a respectful
environment for a diverse population of students.

              2.01 Career development coordinators foster a school environment in which                        students have positive, nurturing relationships with caring adults.
              2.02 Career development coordinators embrace diversity in the school community                and in the world.
              2.03 Career development coordinators treat students as individuals.
              2.04 Career development coordinators adapt their services to accommodate                        diverse student populations.
              2.05 Career development coordinators work collaboratively with the families and                  significant adults in the lives of students.

Standard III: Career development coordinators understand and
facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive career development
program.
              3.01 Career development coordinators align their programs to support student                    success in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
              3.02 Career development coordinators understand how their professional                            knowledge and skills support and enhance student success.
              3.03 Career development coordinators recognize the interconnectedness of the                    comprehensive education program and academic content areas/disciplines.
              3.04 Career development coordinators develop comprehensive career                                  development programs relevant to students.

Standard IV: Career development coordinators promote learning for all
students.
              4.01 Career development coordinators know how students learn. They understand                the teaching and learning process and how it impacts students.
              4.02 Career development coordinators help students develop employability skills.                They assist all students with developing academic, career, and personal/social                      skills.
              4.03 Career development coordinators use and promote effective listening and                    communication skills.

Standard V: Career development coordinators actively reflect on their
practice.
              5.01 Career development coordinators analyze the impact of the career                              development program.
              5.02 Career development coordinators link professional growth to the needs of                    their school and their program goals.
              5.03. Career development coordinators function effectively in a complex dynamic                environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
 

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the 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.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the 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.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.

Physical Communication: Requires the 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.

   DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work
performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a
comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.