TEACHER ASSIGNED VACANCY CIRCULAR NO 27 PROGRAM ASSOCIATE CAREER READINESS    2024  2025

(SUBJECT TO FUNDING AVAILABILITY)

POSITION:          

Teacher Assigned A – Program Associate, Career Readiness

(ONE YEAR POSITION)

(INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY)

LOCATION:           

Itinerant, serving multiple schools; assigned to Office of Student Pathways (Pathways)

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

New York State licensed, appointed and Tenured New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) Teacher. For current NYCPS employees, you must also have been rated Satisfactory (S) as a Teacher Assigned or Effective or Highly Effective as a Teacher for the past 3 years and have a satisfactory record of attendance and punctuality.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Mayor and New York City Public Schools has outlined a bold vision to reimagine the educational experience for all New York City public school students so they graduate with real world skills and experience, a headstart on postsecondary, and a strong plan to put them on a path to a rewarding career and long-term economic security. Within the context of this vision, the Office of Student Pathways, focuses on the alignment of school curriculum, instruction, and operations to ensure that all students graduate with real world skills and experience, a head start on life after high school, and a strong plan to put them on a path to a rewarding career and long-term economic security.

Reports to:

This position will reside on the Work-Based Learning arm of the Career Connected Learning team in the Office of Student Pathways.

Direct Reports:

N/A

DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, implement, and assess comprehensive career readiness programs that provide students with early exposure and awareness of high growth, high demand and high wage careers.
• Build and implement capacity building training for schools to develop a meaningful array of work-based learning activities that reinforce classroom learning.
• Regularly assess and evaluate program outcomes, student participation and satisfaction, making data-driven improvements to enhance the quality and impact of service delivery.
• Research and recommend best of class career readiness frameworks and related assessments for adoption and implementation.
• Curate and/or develop innovative, standards aligned and interdisciplinary career readiness curriculum and content.
• Develop, test and scale solutions for educator training and delivery of curriculum.
• Support schools, especially those who are newer to building a Career Connected Learning culture, with the setting up of strong work-based learning structures that enable the implementation of a sequence of WBL activities for all students.
• In partnership with the Office of Student Pathways Data and Accountability team, consult on data infrastructure to measure and report out on career readiness skills.
• In collaboration with the employer engagement team, source real time feedback on sector specific core competencies, career readiness content and teacher training with the goal of ensuring NYC PS graduates are prepared to meet the demands of a modern workforce.
• Develop and implement externship opportunities for educators to shadow and observe technical and employability skills required in today's workplaces.
• In consultation with OSP leadership, develop and execute a marketing strategy to promote career readiness skills to schools, students and families.
• Support in advocacy efforts that uplift the value of competency-based learning, the measurement of and inclusion of career readiness skills into “the New York State Portrait of a graduate.”          

SELECTION CRITERIA:

• Demonstrated knowledge of curriculum in business, finance, marketing, accounting, and entrepreneurship.
• Ability to adapt curriculum for a variety of learners, including students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and over age, under credited youth.
• Willingness to travel to different locations to deliver professional learning (PL) opportunities.
• Three prior years of Satisfactory rating as Teacher Assigned or Effective or Highly Effective rating as Teacher. 
• Demonstrated ability to plan, design, deliver, and evaluate PL opportunities.
• Demonstrated experience with project planning.
• Experience in planning, developing and delivering project-based-learning that are interdisciplinary.
• Extremely well-organized; able to work under pressure and meet frequent and sometimes changing deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• High standards for personal excellence, with the ability to learn quickly and continuously and be responsive to constructive feedback.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in working with education personnel internally and external to NYCPS.

WORK YEAR/HOURS: 

Per UFT Collective Bargaining Agreement

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday Through Friday, unless otherwise specified in the assignment             

School Year (September 5, 2024, through June 30, 2025) plus five additional days winter, spring or summer recess pursuant to UFT contract, to be determined by supervisor. 

The hours of service of a teacher shall be thirty-seven and one-half hours per week exclusive of a daily thirty-minute lunch period. Flexibility for earlier start or later finish to the day with approval of supervisor. Requirement to work up to 30 per session days during summer vacation period, starting July 2024.

SALARY:                        

As per UFT Collective Bargaining Agreement

APPLICATION:               

Please send cover letter describing related experience, resume and copy of license(s) to Marcia Marshall on Mmarshall7@schools.nyc.gov by December 19, 2024.  

For current DOE employees, please include your DOE email address and/or file number in your application.  Applicants not currently working as guidance counselors for the DOE need to also complete the NYC Department of Education's Online Teacher Application.