Description Job Summary: Responsible for planning and directing the center School to Career/Work Based Learning program and Community Engagement. Duties/Responsibilities: • Assists students in adjusting to Center life to enhance student retention by providing supervision, behavior modification, counseling, and by acting as a positive role model and mentor. • Adheres to all Procedure and Requirements Handbook (PRH) and Career Systems Development (CSD) policies and procedures, and the Center Operating Procedures. • Prepares reports and forms and documents in CIS case notes and files observations of student’s behavior, performance, notable information or events, and progress towards achieving goals and objectives. • Maintains confidentiality but reports significant events or situations immediately through approved channels to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students and staff, and to ensure that required reporting occurs, and that students receive emergency services as needed. • Works with staff, employers, organized labor, and the community to establish positive work-based learning sites for students to learn and practice skills they cannot easily learn in a classroom setting. • Plans and coordinates activities to bring together the appropriate persons, including employers, educators, trainees, and staff to ensure the success of the school-to-Career/Work–based Learning program. • Generates work site opportunities that best match the training capabilities and needs of trainees with employers’ requirements. Develops and maintains copies WBL MOUs with employers prior to students participating in training at each site. This must include mutual expectations and requirements, and ensure employer feedback on skills obtained or strengthened, and feedback on remediation needed. • Escorts potential employers on tours; serves as a guest speaker on and off campus to promote the School to Career program. • Schedules and transports trainees to work sites as needed. • Visits work sites to monitor trainee progress. • Counsel’s trainees on their evaluations. • Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Qualifications: Minimum: Associate’s degree and two years’ experience in marketing, sales, or counseling related areas. Preferred: Bachelor’s degree or 4 years professional experience working with youth. Two years’ experience in marketing, sales, or counseling related areas. Supervisory experience. Knowledge: Ability to effectively communicate with and relate to trainees. Good understanding of the local community and employer base. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organizational and marketing skills. Must possess a valid state driver’s license. Physical Requirements: Frequently Sitting Seeing Hearing Speaking Occasionally Standing Walking Bending Stooping Squatting Flexibility Seldom Climbing Lifting 50 pounds Carrying Kneeling Pushing/Pulling Running Driving Environmental Demands: Equipment: Ability to operate office equipment Work Alone: Occasionally works alone Work With Others: 85% of time spent working and interacting with team and other departments Reading: Ability to read at a college level Writing: Ability to write at a college level