Job Description
Title: Career Services Counselor II - Career Navigator
Salary Range: $3162- $3796
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.5
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
College: Bluegrass Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Bluegrass C&TC - Leestown Campus
Department: Advancement and Workforce Development
Total Rewards
Bluegrass 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
Working collaboratively with college leadership, faculty, and staff, the Career Navigator holds responsibility for developing and managing BCTC’s work-based learning initiatives for students and employers. Work-Based Learning opportunities include cooperative education experiences, internships, micro-internships, student activities and working with students in different career pathways. The position reports to the Career Services Center Director in the Advancement and Workforce Development department. This is a grant funded position.
Job Duties:
- Expand upon the number of work-based learning opportunities for students to include internships and cooperative education opportunities.
- Recruits new companies while also serving as the primary contact for work-based learning to ensure they successfully complete the program and transition into the company.
- Works under the leadership of the Career Services Center Director to conduct job fairs, employment-related student support activities, etc.
- Develop relationships with business and industry partners to promote BCTC work-based learning opportunities for students and graduates.
- Promote Handshake platform to employers and students to create suitable matches for co-ops, internships, apprenticeships, and part-time, or full-time positions.
- Promote My Majors platform to students to ensure the career assessment tool is fully utilized.
- Works collaboratively with Faculty Cooperative Education Coordinator to support impactful work-based learning opportunities for students.
- Works collaboratively with Student Success Career Coaches/Advisors to ensure staff are prepared to provide career assessment services to current applicants/students.
- Develops social media assets and communicates regularly on social media platforms to provide a robust marketing campaign for the Office of Career, Employment and Work-Based Learning.
- Works collaboratively with faculty and staff at the college to ensure work-based learning opportunities are advertised and communicated across the college.
- Works with students to support career pathways and assist them in finding the right fit for them.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, Human Resources, Career and Technical Education, Counseling, or related field preferred and 2 years of related experience or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, Human Resources, Career and Technical Education, Counseling, or related field and 4 years experience
Additional Skills Requested:
- Commitment to the mission of the comprehensive community and technical college.
- Experience working in higher education.
- Experience working with business and industry.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
- Bilingual preferred.
Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.
