JOB GOALS:  Manage the Work Based Learning (WBL) program, support student success, and build partnerships with businesses to enhance work experiences. Oversee student placements, employer relationships, and continuous program improvement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

• Recruit Business Partners: Identify and recruit employers, manage meetings, and expand the WBL program.
• Program Management: Ensure compliance with regulations, implement improvements, and network with other WBL programs.
• Student Support: Assess students’ skills and goals, match them with employers, and assist with interview prep and scheduling.
• Communication: Maintain regular communication with parents, stakeholders, and administrators. Keep student records and track employer feedback.
• Special Events & Recruitment: Organize job shadowing, apprenticeships, career fairs, mock interviews, and job fairs.
• Community Engagement: Coordinate Junior Achievement field trips, recruit volunteers, and manage logistics and costs.
• Career Coaching: Provide resume building, interview prep, job applications, and college support.
• Summer Work: Support students and employers with job placements during the summer.
• Indiana’s Work & Learn Program: Promote the state’s wage reimbursement program to businesses and assist with sign-ups.
• Additional Responsibilities: Oversee all aspects of the WBL program, ensuring alignment with educational and career goals year-round.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Four-year college or university degree.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence, and effectively present information. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILL:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense and understanding to carry out instructions in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; and taste or smell. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10-50 pounds Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee should be able to use the following machines, tools, equipment, and work aids which may be representative, but not all inclusive, of those commonly associated with this type of work: computer, pen; pencil; pointer; Promethean Board; projection equipment; public address system; tape recorder; blackboard; chalk; charts; diagrams; examinations; manuals; maps; publications; reference books; textbooks.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

EVALUATION:  An evaluation will be done on the employee’s performance throughout the school year, performed by the principal.

SALARY: $57,000 - $65,000

DAYS: 195 DAYS