Career Development Director

Career Development Director Job Description: Hendricks CareerTek is a state-of-the-art, not-for-profit career center offering innovative, nimble and experiential career exploration and learning opportunities for young people.
Partnering with business, education providers, parents and workforce professionals, CareerTek works to build experiential pipelines in demand occupations in order to position area youth for successful post-secondary transitions and to create strong talent pipelines in the Greater Beloit region.
The Center is a collaborative project of the Stateline Boys and Girls Clubs and the Hendricks Family Foundation.
Position Summary: Position is responsible for providing robust career-related development opportunities for students and to build a talent pipeline for employers.
This position will develop quality programs and experiences to expose and inform students in order to increase their ability to make effective career-related decisions.
The Career Development Director will build partnerships and facilitate working connections between educational organizations and business partners within the Greater Beloit Area.
This person will serve as a central point of contact to design innovative and high quality student and business connections and learning/training opportunities.
Required Characteristics: The ideal candidate for this position will be an experienced, career-focused educator with a proven ability to work effectively with a diverse demographic of students and parents, school districts and industry professionals.
The candidate will be driven to excellence and passionately committed to educating young people and helping to position them for a successful future.
With a keen ability to listen and to learn, the candidate will demonstrate an understanding of the cross-sector needs of educators and business and to blend those in order to create experiential opportunities for youth.
The candidate will be innovative with an ability to creatively implement strategies to build career exploration opportunities.
The candidate will combine education experience with workforce knowledge in order to assist with the continuation of building CareerTek into a model for career pathway planning.
Duties and Assignments: 1.
Develop and implement CareerTek educational programming in order to support the effective achievement of Careertek goals and strategic plans with an emphasis on building hands-on, experiential learning opportunities.
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Assist with the building and maintaining of strong cross-sector partnerships 3.
Work in coordination with the Pathway Program Director to develop and maintain an understanding of regional talent needs and assist industry partners in articulating training needs in order to ensure that CareerTek content and opportunities are both industry informed and appropriate for middle and high school students.
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Create and maintain collaborative working partnerships with Greater Beloit Area School district leadership and key CTE partners.
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Build opportunities to offer regional, multi-district career focused programming 6.
Work with local partners to increase the number of area students participating in school to work programming and graduating with industry recognized credentials.
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Act as a key community leader and expert on career pathway activities 8.
Support the CareerTek team in identifying and maintaining the technology needed for educational programming.
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Serve as a resource and advisor in Identifying, advising, and assisting employers, students, and education staff in resolving barriers or concerns related to to business/student engagement opportunities Disclosure: This position description is not an all-inclusive listing of job duties and functions.
Other duties outside of this position description may be assigned to the position.
Minimum Qualifications: 1.
Bachelor's Degree in education or a similar field.
Master's Degree in Career Education or CTE licensing/credentials preferred.
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At least 5 years' experience working with middle and high school aged youth in an education or career environment.
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Knowledge and experience working with Career and Technical Education programs preferred.
Additional Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 1.
Ability to work in a team-oriented environment, but be self-driven when necessary 2.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of business and student information 3.
Must have exceptional internal and external customer relationship/communication skills 4.
Ability to interact with diverse populations 5.
Detail oriented, with the ability to understand budgets and cost of training programs 6.
Ability to manage multiple, complex projects 7.
Ability to organize, coordinate and prioritize job duties