Career Pathway Support Network (CPSN) Career Connection Consultant

Career Pathway Support Network Career Connection Consultant Job Description

Description: The Career Connection Consultant will promote equitable access to career-technical education (CTE) 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 and their partner districts within the assigned Career Pathway Support Network (CPSN) region. Minimum Requirements:

1. 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);
2. 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); Duties: An overview of duties is provided below. The Career Connection Consultant will:
   • Participate in the 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 a CPSN team member, as needed, to support district leadership, 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 that strengthen 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 and resources to keep CTPDs and districts providing CTE in the region current on federal and state initiatives and requirements related to students with disabilities and career-technical education.
   • Coordinate regional collaborative networks to address the needs of special education within career-technical education.
   • Work collaboratively with other CPSN consultants, SST consultants, educational agencies, community stakeholders and families to ensure students with disabilities participating in
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     career-technical education have access to appropriate and effective instructional practices and frameworks.

     • Support CTPDs and districts offering CTE 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 CPSN and Statewide Consultant Meetings and the Office for Exceptional Children Meetings as applicable.
     • Attend local, state and regional conferences for professional development as approved and applicable.
     • Learn content and provide technical assistance to schools and districts in the implementation of statewide initiatives, within the assigned region, such as, but not limited to: Career Connected Learning Framework, Industry Recognized Credentials, and the effective delivery of CTE to as they pertain to students with disabilities in their least restrictive environment.
     • Other duties as assigned

     Days: 204-214 days (salary based on assigned number of days)

     Anticipated Start Date: July 2026

     Application Deadline: Until Filled

     Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, resume, at least three professional references, and a copy of all credentials to:

     Casey Enochs, Assistant Superintendent

     Southern Ohio Educational Service Center

     3321 Airborne Road, Wilmington, Ohio 45177

     Email: cenochs@soesc.org

     Phone: 937-382-6921, ext. 1039

     Southern Ohio Educational Service Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression of any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.