Career Training Manager chez Muhlenberg Job Corps Center

Description

Job Summary: Directs staff engaged in assigned career technical training area and career counseling and ensures departmental programs and standards meet all DOL, PRH, Center and corporate requirements.

Duties:

• Assists in the development and administration of the CDSS plan. Helps establish, implement, and ensures approved curriculum is being taught. As assigned, develops and implements CTST projects and other WBL opportunities for students. Promotes center-based and work-based learning opportunities for students.
• Train, supervise, and evaluate assigned CTT program and counseling staff. Conducts and documents classroom observations. Recommends the hiring and retention of certified/licensed instructors and career counselors.
• Develops and implements programs to promote attainment of CTT completions, credentials, and job placement to assure attainment of OMS goals.
• Prepares and controls budget in cooperation with the Administration Manager and ensures an adequate supply of materials is on hand to support programs.
• Monitors student progress on Training Achievement Records (TARS). Ensures proper records on students’ progress, attendance, etc., are kept by instructors to meet Job Corps credential agency requirements.
• Evaluates performance data on student progress and makes data-based decisions to promote higher levels of student achievement.
• Promotes compliance with Center’s Standards of Conduct System to recognize and document student behavior in collaboration with the Student Personnel Officer and individual counselors.
• Participates in scheduling and recommends adjustment to class size aligned with DOL and company requirements. Ensures adequate coverage to during instructional staff absences through utilization of substitute(s) or conducting class, as permitted.
• Ensures instructional staff assists students in developing and updating short- and long-term goals using the MyPACE Career Plan.
• Complies with all DOL guidelines, Job Corps notices and bulletins, and Center policies and procedures.
• Participates in evaluations of student progress panels.
• Conducts and documents regular staff meetings with instructors and career counselors.
• Models, mentors, and monitors appropriate career success standards.
• Participates in PRH mandated staff training.
• Conducts and documents quality assurance audits and self-evaluations to ensure program quality and integrity for both CTT and counseling. Continually monitors data center reports related to vocational performance including OMS, VTRC, and placement outcomes. Trains staff on how to read reports to correct performance problems.
• In collaboration with the BCL, ensures an active Center Industry Council than analyzes LMI data related to the geographic regions that students arrive from and makes necessary recommendations for vocational changes, as necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned within the individual’s scope and capabilities.

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience: Certified, licensed, or accredited in the content area and state in which the center is located or is accredited by a professional trade organization required. Bachelor’s degree in education from a four-year college or university preferred. Industry Certification and/or State Certification required. Driver’s license required.

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 sit, stand and walk; to reach with hands and arms and talk and listen. The employee is occasionally required to sit; to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; to taste and to smell. The employee must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision capabilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision.

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 can vary from moderate to loud.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Therefore, the employee may be requested to perform other reasonable related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required. The company reserves the right to revise or change job duties as business requirements dictate. It is mutually agreed that the job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. It is also understood that the company reserves the right to change work schedules as required, including overtime.