Career Connection Consultant

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.

Minimum Requirements

• A master’s degree in education, special education, early childhood education, educational administration, or an appropriate related field, or evidence of equivalency;
• Three to five years of successful experience in classroom teaching, school improvement planning, special education administration, career-technical administration, or related experience;
• 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.
• Cook up and 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.
• 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.