Career Connection Consultant

The Career Pathway Support Network is seeking a Career Connection Consultant to support equitable access to career-technical education for students with disabilities across the assigned region.  This position will provide coaching, professional learning, and technical assistance to Career-Technical Planning Districts, school districts, and regional partners to strengthen the delivery of special education and related services within career-technical education settings.

This is a 200-day contract position serving Coshocton, Muskingum, Morgan, Noble, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Belmont, and Monroe Counties.

Overview:

The Career Connection Consultant will work collaboratively with Career Pathway Support Network staff, State Support Team consultants, Career-Technical Planning Districts, school districts, educational agencies, community stakeholders, and families to support students with disabilities participating in career-technical education.

The consultant will help districts build capacity, access resources, review data, provide professional learning, and implement effective instructional practices that support students with disabilities in their least restrictive environment.

Minimum Requirements:

• A master’s degree in education, special education, early childhood education, educational administration, or an appropriate related field, or evidence of equivalency; and
• Three to five years of successful experience in classroom teaching, school improvement planning, special education administration, career-technical administration, or related experience; and
• A license appropriate to the individual’s profession, such as special education administration, general education, intervention specialist, early learning, related services, or another applicable credential.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in Office for Exceptional Children IDEA selective reviews when related to career-technical education or job training services for students with disabilities.
• Serve as a Career Pathway Support Network team member to support district leadership, building leadership teams, and teacher-based teams related to career-technical education services for students with disabilities.
• Collect and review career-technical pathway data to identify professional learning and technical assistance needs.
• Support the capacity of career-technical education personnel to provide special education services and high-quality instruction to students with disabilities.
• Develop and facilitate professional learning and technical assistance related to district or school self-review of services for students with disabilities in career-technical education.
• Provide information and resources to keep CTPDs and districts current on federal and state initiatives and requirements related to students with disabilities and career-technical education.
• Coordinate regional collaborative networks focused on the needs of special education within career-technical education.
• Work collaboratively with CPSN consultants, SST consultants, educational agencies, community stakeholders, and families to support access to appropriate and effective instructional practices and frameworks.
• Support CTPDs and districts in developing high expectations for the achievement of diverse learners.
• Assist districts in ensuring students with disabilities have access to effective instructional practices in their least restrictive environment.
• Attend and inform State CPSN meetings, Statewide Consultant meetings, and Office for Exceptional Children meetings, as applicable.
• Attend local, state, and regional conferences for professional development as approved and applicable.
• Learn content and provide technical assistance related to statewide initiatives, including but not limited to the Career Connected Learning Framework, industry-recognized credentials, and the effective delivery of career-technical education for students with disabilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Funding Notice:

This position is funded through IDEA funds. Continuation of the position beyond FY27 is contingent upon future grant funding and approval.

Interested candidates should submit a resume and letter of interest to Nanette McFadden, Executive Director of Human Resources, via email – nanette.mcfadden@ecoesc.org