NC Career Coach
Employer
Job Location
Winterville, NC
Salary/Grade
Benefits
Job Category
- Professional
Application Period
Closes: Sunday, February 2, 2020
Target Start Date
Expected Work Hours
Reports to
Employment Type
Minimum Qualifications
Baccalaureate degree in Education, Communication, or closely related field from a regionally accredited institution required. Master's degree in Counselor Education or related field preferred, along with (2) years of advising and counseling experience in a community college, 4-year college/ university or similar educational setting. Previous experience advising and working with students from diverse cultures and ethnic backgrounds preferred.
Must exercise knowledge of interpersonal communication skills with tact, diplomacy and patience. Knowledge of basic office software applications required (Excel, WordPerfect, PowerPoint, etc.). Must demonstrate good oral and written communication skills.
Must have ability to sustain regular work attendance, and work cooperatively with students, faculty, staff and the general public. Ability to speak effectively with small and large groups required. Ability to work some evenings and weekends required.
Preferred Qualifications
Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to operate a variety of automated office machines including computers, typewriters, calculators, printers, copiers, etc. Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for periods of time.
Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from supervisors.
Language Ability: Requires the ability to read invoices, timesheets, leave vouchers, forms, etc. Requires the ability to prepare reports, correspondence, receipts, checks, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English and government accounting terminology.
Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract totals; to multiply and divide; to determine percentages and decimals and may require ability to utilize principles of fractions and/or interpret graphs.
Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.
Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using automated office equipment.
Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, office equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
Color Discrimination and Visual Acuity: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color; requires the visual acuity to determine depth perception, peripheral vision, inspection for small parts; preparing and analyzing written or computer data, etc.
Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under minimal levels of stress.
Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing - perceiving nature of sounds by ear).
Position Description
NC Career Coaches are community college counselors embedded in high schools to help students acquire awareness and explore career and technical education postsecondary program options. This position is funded in part by an appropriation from the General Fund to the NC Community College System Office and created as a result of a partnership between Pitt Community College and Pitt County Schools.
Under general supervision, employees in this position are employees of Pitt Community College and will not be an agent or employee of Pitt County Schools. Duties and responsibilities include organizing career planning activities, developing academic/career goals modules and providing group and individual career coaching for high school students. Reports to the Assistant Dean, Counseling and Student Services.
The list of essential functions, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. It is not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.
- Provide support, engagement, and guidance to help high school students define their career interests and explore educational opportunities at Pitt Community College and other postsecondary institutions.
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of postsecondary career counseling given to high school students and their families.
- Plan, design, implement and deliver content for career development workshops and sessions.
- Coordinate day-to-day NC Career Coach operations and schedule activities, programs and speakers.
- In collaboration with the high school, develop and maintain a current and comprehensive on-line accessible occupational library including information on careers and career clusters, employment prospects and trends and employment requirements and opportunities.
- Conduct workshops and sessions for students that focus on career assessments, placement testing/multiple measures requirements, financial aid application, opportunities for apprenticeships/internships, and Career and College Promise credit classes in high school as well as on campus and in the community.
- Provide information on careers, career pathways, and educational requirements.
- Provide opportunities for job shadowing, mentoring, internships, visits to business and industry, and other career awareness activities.
- Monitor and track student career interest areas and the job market.
- Maintain accurate and timely records of coaching activities and students served.
- Promote student participation in outreach activities such as college nights, parent's nights, financial aid and scholarship workshops.
- Contact, schedule and arrange guest speakers from the local business community, colleges and military services to present information regarding specific occupations.
- Create partnerships and interact with a variety of external workforce development stakeholders including alumni, business and industry, governmental agencies, etc.
- Provide enhanced career services counseling for underrepresented and first generation college students. Connect students to academic enrichment activities such as study groups, tutoring, and workshops on study skills.
- Inform students, teachers, counselors, and parents regarding local and regional workforce needs.
- Must attend NC Career Coaches training. Attend meetings, conferences and seminars regarding career trends.
- Prepare and submit to supervisor for approval, the statutory annual reporting requirements report to be submitted to the State Board of Community Colleges.