Hybrid Career Coach presso Fayette County School Corporation

Career Coach

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Student Engagement & Advisement

• Facilitate one-on-one and small group career planning sessions to help students assess strengths, interests, and goals.

• Administer validated interest and personality inventories (e.g. RIASEC, Myers-Briggs, DeBruce Agilities) approved by IDOE 

• Develop individualized career plans that align academic performance, personal strengths, and post-secondary ambitions.

Career Exploration & Awareness

• Host and coordinate career fairs, guest speaker events, industry tours, and college campus visits.

• Partner with local employers to arrange job shadowing, internships, service-learning, and apprenticeships

Work-Based Learning & Transition Planning

• Work with area employers to develop a “menu” of opportunities for students.

• Prepare students for assessments such as ACT WorkKeys and support development of workforce credentials.

• Help students build professional tools: resumes, cover letters, online profiles, and portfolios.

• Collaborate with school counselors, Vocational Rehabilitation services, families, and community providers to support students with IEP/504s, transition services, and post-secondary coordination

Program Administration & Evaluation

• Keep accurate documentation of student sessions, progress, and program outcomes.

• Regularly meet with district leadership to assess performance, alignment with Indiana’s Career Coaching Framework, and grant compliance (if applicable)

Community & School Collaboration

• Serve as a liaison between CTE instructors, guidance staff, local businesses, colleges & universities, and workforce agencies.

• Infuse career awareness content into classroom curriculum in consultation with teachers
  
  Qualifications

• High School Diploma

• Experience working with high school students in career guidance, especially within CTE or Pre-ETS contexts, preferred

• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

• Understanding of WIOA standards and Pre-Employment Transition Services is preferred
  

   

  Skills & Competencies

• Strong active listening and counseling skills.

• Capability to analyze assessment data and translate into actionable career strategies.

• Capacity to build and maintain community and employer partnerships.

• Project management proficiency (events, curricular integration, documentation).

• Empathy, cultural responsiveness, and student-centered advocacy.
  
  Work Conditions & Benefits

             5.75 hrs/day, 185 days

• Regular attendance during school hours; flexibility for evening or weekend events such as career nights.
• Support for professional development and relevant certification maintenance.
• This is a grant funded position with funding secured through the end of the year and is contigent upon the continued availabilty of funding and satisfactory job performance.
• Pay Scale $23.00-$25.00 Hr.

      Performance Metrics

• Student participation rates in career development activities.

• Number of work-based learning placements, internships, and job-shadow experiences facilitated.

• Improvement in students’ readiness skills (evaluated via pre/post assessments).

• Strength of community and industry engagement (measured via feedback and activity volume).

• Compliance with Indiana’s Career Coaching Framework and grant expectations (if applicable).