Career-Technical Planning District Consultant

Position Type:
Administration/Consultant

Date Posted:
6/1/2026

Location:
ESC of the Western Reserve

District:
ESC of the Western Reserve
Job Title: Career-Technical Planning District Consultant

Summary

The Career-Technical Planning District Consultant will promote equitable access to career-technical education for students with disabilities, as well as assist school districts in the provision of special education and related services in the context of career-technical education. The Consultant will provide coaching, professional learning and technical assistance to career-technical planning districts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in Office for Exceptional Children, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act selective reviews when it pertains to career-technical education/job training services for students with disabilities.
• Serve as team member of support at District Leadership Teams, Building Leadership Teams and Teacher-Based Teams when related to career-technical education services for students with disabilities.
• Collect and review career-technical pathway data to identify professional learning and technical assistance needs to increase the capacity of career-technical education personnel to provide special education services and high-quality instruction to students with disabilities.
• Develop and facilitate professional learning and technical assistance on a "self-review" of the school/district's capacity to provide special education services to students with disabilities in career-technical education.
• Provide information/resources to keep CTPDs in the region current on federal and state initiatives and requirements related to students with disabilities and career-technical education.
• Coordinate regional collaborative networks that address the needs of special education in career-technical education.
• Work collaboratively with other consultants, educational agencies, community stakeholders and families to ensure students with disabilities participating in career-technical education have access to appropriate and effective instructional practices and frameworks.
• Support CTPDs to develop high expectations for the achievement of all diverse learners, and ensure students with disabilities have access to effective instructional practices in their least restrictive environment.
• Attend and inform State Support Team Regional Transition Council Meetings, Statewide State Support Team Career-Technical Planning District Consultant Meetings and Office for Exceptional Children State Support Team Meetings as applicable.
• Attend local, state and regional conferences for professional development as approved and applicable.

Qualifications:

• A master's degree in the area for which an employee has primary responsibility (i.e., education, special education, early childhood education, education administration or appropriate related field or evidence of equivalency);
• Three to five years of successful classroom teaching, school improvement planning, special education administration, career-technical administration or related experience; a license appropriate to the individual's profession (special education administration, general education, intervention specialist, early learning (age 3 to grade 3), related services)

Criminal Records Check: Must comply with Ohio Revised Code 3319.39 - Criminal Records Check.


Drug Testing: Must pass a drug screen at time of hire and comply with the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988.


The Educational Service Center of the Western Reserve is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.