Job Details
General Description
The position of Career Coach will be responsible for providing middle/high school students with information about career opportunities in Arkansas and the level of education and skills required in order to be successful in various career fields and encourage individuals to learn about, prepare for, and finance a postsecondary education. This position is a twelve-month, grant-funded position.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Providing early outreach to low-income students and their parents with information about the importance of postsecondary education, as well as accurate information on how to prepare, apply, and pay for it
- Providing interest inventories and skills assessments to assist individuals in making informed career decisions
- Facilitating the development of individual career plans and portfolios
- Assisting students with enrolling in education or training programs
- Providing information on careers, career pathways, and educational requirements
- Providing opportunities for job shadowing, mentoring, internships, visits to business and industry, and other career awareness activities
- Providing or connecting low-income students to support services that will ease the transition to postsecondary education
- Connecting educationally disadvantaged youth and adults to “bridge programs” that teach basic academic skills in the context of training for advancement to better jobs and postsecondary education
- Connecting students to academic enrichment activities such as study groups, tutoring, and workshops on study skills
- Connecting high school students to early college programs, Advanced Placement classes, and academic and career and technical education (CTE) and concurrent-credit enrollment
- Providing a continuum of career guidance to ease the transition of students from middle school to high school to postsecondary education or training and ultimately to the workplace
Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.
Required Education/Experience
Minimum requirements of a Bachelor’s degree and either be CRDF certified or commit to obtaining the CDF credential within a year after the hire date.
NOTE: Applicants for this position with ASU-Beebe must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with ASU-Beebe such as H1-B, F-1 (CPT/OPT), TN or any other status.
Organization
Working at Arkansas State University-Beebe
Arkansas State University-Beebe is an operationally separate, two-year institution of the Arkansas State University System. With campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy, and Little Rock Air Force Base, we offer associate degrees, certificates, and non-credit training for business and industry. The Beebe campus also collaborates with Arkansas State, a four-year university in Jonesboro, to offer baccalaureate and graduate degrees on the Beebe campus. Courses are also offered at additional locations within our service area, and many courses are taught in locations convenient to business and industry.
