CTAE-Work-Based Learning Coordinator/Teacher (School Based)

Fulton Schools; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Work-Based Learning Coordinator/Teacher role is based within Fulton County Schools, focusing on a comprehensive off-campus learning program that links students with real-world workplaces and industry partners. You will coordinate internships, job shadowing, and service-learning experiences to ensure meaningful career pathways.

The position emphasizes building strong school–employer partnerships, aligning programs with state guidelines, and supporting CTSO activities while traveling to job

Qualifications

• Associates degree or higher from a GaPSC-accepted accredited institution.
• Minimum of 2 years of occupational work experience in the field.
• Clear and renewable GaPSC Certification in CTAE or enrollment/completion of WBL training

Responsibilities

• Supervises and coordinates students off campus in cooperative education, internships, job shadowing, services learning, and other work-based learning programs
• Serves as a liaison between schools and employers in Fulton County BOE area
• Recruits new businesses and organizations to provide quality work-based learning opportunities for students
• Provides community-based instruction and projects based on program guidelines and requirements
• Maintains partnerships between local employers, secondary schools, and post-secondary institutions

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Instructional strategies

Education

Associates degree or higher

Job description

CTAE-Work-Based Learning Coordinator/Teacher (School Based)

Category: Teaching

Job Function: Teaching

Department: Tri-Cities High

Summary

The Work-Based Learning Program is designed to assist in providing a highly trained, technologically sophisticated and career oriented young work force. This is accomplished by developing partnerships between business, industry, students, parents, school systems, coordinators, and post-secondary institutions which will lead the participating student into meaningful careers. The Work-Based Learning Coordinator (WBL) supervises and coordinates students involved in the Work-Based Learning Program. The incumbent in this position serves as a liaison between the schools and employers and builds partnerships with businesses and organizations to provide quality work-based learning opportunities for students.

• Supervises and coordinates students off campus in cooperative education, internships, job shadowing, services learning, and other work-based learning programs
• Serves as a liaison between schools and employers in the Fulton County BOE area
• Recruits new businesses and organizations to provide quality work-based learning opportunities for students
• Provides community-based instruction and projects based on program guidelines and requirements
• Assists in the creation of a strong support structure and partnerships between local employers, secondary schools, and technical schools, colleges and certified training programs
• Provides assistance in the articulation of programs of study between high schools and post-secondary institutions
• Creates a system that is industry driven where employers and their representatives help set occupational skills standards, collaborate on curriculum, provide work experience and work place mentors for students, and certify mastery of skills leading to the award of a skill certificate
• Focuses on student’s learning about “many aspects” of a broad industry cluster rather than mastering a narrow set of occupational skills
• Provides leadership opportunities for students by assisting the Advisors of school-based Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO)
• Manages and maintains program facilities and equipment
• Adheres to all state guidelines required for the implementation of a successful program
• Travels to job sites and evaluates students
• Communicates responsibly with students, parents, colleagues, school and county leadership
• Accounts for student attendance and punctuality
• Follows all county, state, and federal policies and procedures
• Follows professional ethics in all work-related activities
• Attends school and District-level professional learning activities as directed
• Prepares adequately for responsibilities to be assumed when absent
• Seeks and maintains professional learning opportunities through State endorsed professional organizations. i.e., ACTE, GACTE.
• Facilitates home-school communication by such means as holding conferences, telephoning, and sending written communications
• Integrates appropriate technology into classroom instruction
• Avoids behaviors which detract from staff morale
• Performs other duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator

Required Education

Associates degree or higher from a GaPSC-accepted accredited institution required

Certification/Licensure

Option 1: Must hold a Clear and renewable GaPSC Certification in any teaching field for 6-12 and hold a Work-Based Learning Endorsement as described by GaPSC Rule 505-3-.106

Option 2: Must hold a Clear and renewable GaPSC Certification in any CTAE field and enrollment/completion of the Work-Based Learning (WBL) Basic Training, Part A offered in June and Part B offered in January.

Attend/complete a WBL Refresher course every 5 years per the State School Board Rule 160-4-3-.14

Experience Qualifications

Minimum of 2 years of occupational work experience in the field required.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication skills both orally and in writing
• Excellent organizational skills
• Proven communication and instructional strategies

Working Conditions

• Travel between potential and/or permanent employer job sites
• Travel between home school and employer job sites

Physical Demands

• Ability to lift and carry 30-50 pounds with assistance
• Ability to push or pull a maximum of 50 pounds
• May require stooping or crouching

It is the policy of the Fulton County School System not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability in any employment practice, educational program, or any other program, activity, or service. If you wish to make a complaint or request accommodation or modification due to discrimination in any program, activity, or service, contact Compliance Coordinator Gonzalo LaCava, 6201 Powers Ferry Rd, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, or phone [phone].TTY 1-800-255-0135.

CTAE-Work-Based Learning Coordinator/Teacher (School Based)

Fulton County Schools - 6201 Powers Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30339 - 470-254-3600