What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Facilitator / Career Navigator position at KCTCS Careers Site?
Title: Program Facilitator / Career Navigator
Salary Range: $38,000 - $43,500
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.5
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Owensboro Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Owensboro Community College
Department: Workforce Solutions
Benefits
Owensboro Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
The Program Facilitator - Employer Liaison/Career Navigator provides recruiting, retention, and intervention services for adult students, as well as project management for workforce initiatives. This includes Work and Learn programs and short-term credential programs. This position may require some evening and weekend responsibilities/work required.
Job Duties:
• Recruit students for work and learn and short-term credential programs, as well as other workforce development initiatives.
• Provide project management to Workforce Solutions projects with a particular focus on employer-sponsored programs. This includes work and learn programs and short-term credential programs.
• Serve as a Success Coach and manage student success activities to ensure career navigation, student retention, and intervention strategies are employed. This also includes overseeing the advising, mentoring, college and/or career transitioning efforts, particularly as designated within a specific program, project, or partnership. Provide a case management approach to guarantee student success.
• Perform all other WS duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree (Communication, Business, Social Sciences, Student Services, Educational Leadership, or related areas) and one (1) year related work experience or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Skills Requested:
This position requires someone to provide ongoing success coaching to assist students in their educational and career journey. This includes identifying student needs, challenges and barriers; building rapport and trust with students to support successful program completion; serving as student mentor, advocate, and primary on-campus support; providing interventions and strategies to support students through a variety of academic and non-academic challenges; and supporting students in accessing on and off-campus resources. This position also provides project management to workforce initiatives and requires someone who can handle administrative responsibilities in addition to student recruiting and success coaching duties.
Salary : $38,000 - $43,500
