CTE Business Liaison - One-year-only Contract at Granite School District

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodations.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, training, education, responsibilities, abilities; the machines, tools and equipment used; background; and any licenses or certifications required.  Regular attendance and timeliness is an essential job function to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Job Summary:

The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Business Liaison serves as a bridge between the school district and local industries to enhance educational opportunities for students and workforce development. This role focuses on building and maintaining partnerships with businesses, facilitating student internships and work-based learning experiences, and aligning curriculum with industry needs to prepare students for successful careers.

Essential Functions:
 

• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with local businesses, industry leaders, and community organizations.
• Identifies potential business/industry partners and collaborates with them to create mutually beneficial programs and initiatives.
• Organizes and participates in networking events, industry meetings, and community outreach activities to promote school/industry collaboration.
• Facilitates collaboration between business/industry partners and other CTE personnel.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for business/industry partners interested in working with the Granite School District Career and Technical Education Department.
• Creates and maintains a district database of partners who are willing to participate in various work-based learning activities that support the entire district in grades K-12 such as internships, apprenticeships, job shadows, fieldtrips, guest presentations, career fairs, etc.
• Acts as point of contact with YouScience for Work-Based Experiences tools.
• Identifies business/industry partners willing to participate in pathway advisory boards.
• Attends pathway advisory boards as needed.
• Provides onboarding to partners and students for the centralized district internship and apprenticeship program.
• Collaborates with high school work-based learning specialists to ensure state and district expectations and guidelines are met for all work-based learning activities.
• Serves as a central point of contact for work-based learning/advisory board business partners.
• Aligns partner resources for executing pathway nights, career fairs, and other district work-based learning events.
• Attends district work-based learning meetings.
• Attends State work-based learning webinars (suggested but not required).
• Supports high school work-based learning specialists in establishing “next step-opportunities” for students’ post-internship.
• Develops a working knowledge and understanding of post-secondary education options and opportunities for students.
• Travels between multiple work and industry locations utilizing own transportation.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong computer and educational technology skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Knowledge of career and technical education programs and workforce development trends.

• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Requires a valid driver’s license.

• Requires a minimum of two (2) years of experience in work-based learning, business partnership development, workforce development, or building and maintaining strong partnerships with local, regional, and/or state employers.
• Experience working with school districts and/or industry partners preferred.

• Not applicable.

• Interacts and collaborates with industry partners, associations, Chambers of Commerce, government, educators and other work-based learning team members.
• Works collaboratively with a diverse group of people.
• Creates and supports a team-based environment within the program and the CTE department.

• Not applicable

• Not applicable

• Work takes place primarily in a school environment, but all involves work in the community and in industry-partner facilities.
• Supervision of students may take place inside or outside a school or industry facility in all types of weather and conditions.
• Requires travel between various work locations in all types of weather and conditions.
• Flexible hours are required, including occasional evenings and weekends.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and/or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel objects and must occasionally climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.