Career Coach

Position Type:
Support Staff/Instructional Assistant

Date Posted:
4/22/2026

Location:
Connersville High School


Career Coach

Reports to: CHS School Counselors

Position Summary

The Career Coach supports Connersville High School students especially juniors and seniors in career exploration, post-secondary planning, and work-based learning. Drawing on Indiana's Career Coaching Framework, the coach will guide students to make meaningful academic and career decisions, build industry partnerships, and deliver individualized and group instruction.

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).