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TO APPLY
Send resume and cover letter to careers@futureplans.com.

Salary/Hourly Wage

Compensation Based on Experience.

FUTURE PLANS
Future Plans is a non-profit organization devoted to helping people build a better tomorrow. Our employees live, work, and serve in our own communities. We are passionate about improving and strengthening the workforce to ensure a healthier economic future in our hometowns. We are collaborative and serve students, educators, administrators, other non-profits, and many others using tools and technologies that offer real world solutions. We value the relationship to relationships approach. Our entire program is designed to assist individuals at any stage in becoming career-ready through knowledge of their unique career options and pathways. 

POSITION OVERVIEW
The Assessment and Coaching Coordinator is a self-motivated person with strong organizational skills. The Assessment and Coaching Coordinator analyzes all Future Plans assessments and provides on-going reporting while coordinating coaching activities to all collaborating educational institutions in the state of Ohio.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws. Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. 

Assessment Coordination and Reporting:

• Maintain database tracking of all participating high schools, career technical centers, and partnering community organizations, including the name of county liaisons. 
• Monitor tentative assessment schedule and provide daily student progress reporting to identified stakeholders. 
• Analyze assessment data to provide regional reporting of aggregate data for executive level meetings, district updates, internal staff trainings, and workforce development funding meetings. 
• Coordinate with Future Plans technical support to ensure system functionality on high traffic assessment days. 

Career Coaching Coordination and Reporting:

• Maintain statewide coaching schedule, working with Career Navigators, Community Outreach Partners (COP’s), Directors, School Administrators, and Contract Career Coaches to establish coaching dates/times and oversee facilitation of coaching sessions.  
• Actively work with school officials to make necessary adjustments in coaching schedules to ensure continuity of coaching.  
• Provide daily reporting, identifying completed and rescheduled coaching sessions.  

Career Coaching Supervision:

• Assist Director, Career Coaching in hiring, onboarding, and supervision of all 1099 Contract Career Coaches.  
• Serve as the main facilitator for coaching sessions and point person for potential issues that may arise. 
• Monitor coaching notes to ensure timely reporting. 
• Maintain tracking of all coaching hours and oversee timely approval of individual coach hours in Paychex system.  
• Assist partnering community organizations with scheduling career coaching for adult participants and professionals within their organizations. 

Professional Development: 

• Provide professional development training on assessment and coaching reporting as needed. 
• Track 1099 Career Coach professional development hours.  
• Work with Chief Programming Officer and Director, Career Coaching to identify professional development needs associated with assessment and data analysis.  

Additional Responsibilities Associated with this Position: 

• Data Analysis and support. 
• State and grant reporting requirements associated with assessment data.  

Professional Responsibilities: 

• Maintain a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information with students and coaches. 
• Maintain a positive workplace attitude and demeanor. 
• Possess a high level of attention to detail. 
• Demonstrate a collaborative approach with colleagues to meet organizational goals.  
• Know and comply with all school district policies and procedures associated with providing contract level career coaching services.  
• Complete all necessary records and reports in a timely manner.  
• Actively participate in Future Plans and GRIT Ohio meetings and trainings to keep abreast of pertinent updates in economic and workforce development. 
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications of Employment: 

Required:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience providing administrative support. 
• Strong technology skills in Microsoft Office and Zoom technologies as needed to perform job duties. Including an intermediate level of proficiency in Excel and experience using SharePoint. 
• Effective oral and written communications. 
• Organizational, leadership, and time-management skills. 

Preferred:

• Possess a minimum of a BS/BA degree. 
• Previous experience as an Assessment Coordinator. 

These qualifications are guidelines. Other combinations of education and experience that could provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job will be considered.

Job Type: Full-time (Remote)

Schedule:

• Monday – Friday, including the summer months.
• Some weekend and/or evening availability.
• Position requires travel within the assigned counties and occasional trips to conferences, training or team building meetings that may happen in other parts of the state.

REQUIREMENTS

All work is remote work. Must have a quiet space, high-speed internet access, and a computer with audio and video capabilities to be considered. Background check required.  

Must be available between the hours of 7am – 4pm Monday through Friday. The workload may be quite busy for a few months as schools assess and coach students and then slower until the next school semester begins the process with a new group of students. 

TO APPLY
Send resume and cover letter to careers@futureplans.com.

TO APPLY
Send resume and cover letter to careers@futureplans.com.

BACKGROUND
Future Plans is expanding their work into Northwest Ohio. We focus on helping youth and adults discover their best selves and growing the economic prosperity of the region. We believe that the catalyst for leading a fulfilling life lies in discovering our purpose and direction through learning what we have to offer to the world and finding how we best fit into the world.

THE FUTURE PLANS ATTITUDE
To help us live our mission and build our communities, we are looking for individuals with a desire to positively impact the lives of students and jobseekers of all ages and stages of their lives — but with an emphasis on people between the ages of 16 and 24.

JOB GOALS
Further the mission Future Plans locally through supporting youth and adults. Assist school districts in implementing the Future Plans Career Assessment and coaching process, with the objective of every graduating senior leaving high school with defined and documented career goals and next steps. Build relationships with local employers, chambers of commerce and the Ohio Means Jobs office as a means of identifying local workforce needs and supporting adults of any age looking for employment.

DUTIES

SCHOOLS

• Collaborate with high school guidance counselors to implement the FUTURE PLANS career assessment.
• Coordinate career coaching schedules for students within each high school.
• Maintain a data dashboard to monitor the career readiness status of all high school students.
• Participate in the school business advisory council. Take a leadership or key coordination role.
• Collaborate with schools to complement, supplement, deepen, and enhance the district’s college and career education programs.
• Participate in the Ohio Department of Education career education continuing education series.
• Identify students interested in immediately entering the workforce upon graduation and assist in attending local job fairs and/or identifying potential employers.

ADULTS & BUSINESS COMMUNITY

• Monitor the employment needs of the county business community.
• Lead county committee meetings and continue to recruit participants.
• Collaborate with the library and Ohio Means Jobs office to develop and facilitate county workshops related to career exploration and coaching; coordinate logistics, scheduling, and participant communications.
• Serve as program representative on assigned community committees such as drug coalition, recovery and court initiatives.
• Attend county Chamber of Commerce meetings as a means of building employer relationships.
• Serve as a liaison to the business community and the schools as a means of identifying career pathways for students, speakers for the schools and employees for the businesses.
• Identify local success stories for the purpose of developing video testimonials and local press coverage.
• Build and maintain relationships with local elected officials (mayors, county commissioners, state representatives, and senators, congressional representatives) to increase the visibility of the role of the project in the community.
• Build and maintain relationships with local community colleges and workforce training programs such as apprenticeships.
• Maintain positive community relations.

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrate ability to communicate and work effectively with diverse people and formal organizations.
• Ability to build effective relationships and consensus through effective collaboration.
• Demonstrate initiative and ability to think in an interdisciplinary team.
• Must have a reliable automobile, valid driver’s license, and minimum staterequired liability auto insurance required.
• Complete and clear Ohio’s Criminal Background.

These qualifications are guidelines. Other combinations of education and experience that could provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job will be considered.

Job Type: Full-time (Remote)

Schedule:

• Monday – Friday, including the summer months.
• Some weekend and/or evening availability.
• Position requires travel within the assigned counties and occasional trips to conferences, training or team building meetings that may happen in other parts of the state.

QUALIFICATIONS

No degree is required but must have extensive experience and knowledge of working in the community. This experience could be as a community volunteer, school volunteer, civic leader or other community involvement. Must be proficient in using technology such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint or Google Docs. Must live locally in one of the counties in the service area.

LOCATION

This position is a field position based at schools and partner organizations in Defiance, Williams, Henry, Fulton and Paulding Counties with some home office time.

TO APPLY
Send resume and cover letter to careers@futureplans.com.