Career Pathway Support Network (CPSN) Career Connection Consultant

Job Description

Career Pathway Support Network
Career Connection Consultant Job Description

Description: The Career Connection Consultant will promote equitable access to career-technical
education (CTE) for students with disabilities, as well as assist school districts in the provision of
special education and related services in the context of career-technical education. The Consultant
will provide coaching, professional learning and technical assistance to career-technical planning
districts and their partner districts within the assigned Career Pathway Support Network (CPSN)
region.
Minimum Requirements:
1. A master's degree in the area for which an employee has primary responsibility (i.e.,
education, special education, early childhood education, education administration or
appropriate related field or evidence of equivalency);
2. Three to five years of successful classroom teaching, school improvement planning, special
education administration, career-technical administration or related experience; a license
appropriate to the individual's profession (special education administration, general
education, intervention specialist, early learning (age 3 to grade 3), related services);
Duties: An overview of duties is provided below.
The Career Connection Consultant will:
• Participate in the Office for Exceptional Children, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
selective reviews when it pertains to career-technical education/job training services for
students with disabilities.
• Serve as a CPSN team member, as needed, to support district leadership, building leadership
teams and teacher-based teams when related to career-technical education services for
students with disabilities.
• Collect and review career-technical pathway data to identify professional learning and
technical assistance needs that strengthen the capacity of career-technical education
personnel to provide special education services and high-quality instruction to students with
disabilities.
• Develop and facilitate professional learning and technical assistance on a "self-review" of the
school/district's capacity to provide special education services to students with disabilities in
career-technical education.
• Provide information and resources to keep CTPDs and districts providing CTE in the region
current on federal and state initiatives and requirements related to students with disabilities
and career-technical education.
• Coordinate regional collaborative networks to address the needs of special education within
career-technical education.
• Work collaboratively with other CPSN consultants, SST consultants, educational agencies,
community stakeholders and families to ensure students with disabilities participating in

career-technical education have access to appropriate and effective instructional practices
and frameworks.
• Support CTPDs and districts offering CTE to develop high expectations for the achievement of
all diverse learners and ensure students with disabilities have access to effective instructional
practices in their least restrictive environment.
• Attend and inform State CPSN and Statewide Consultant Meetings and the Office for
Exceptional Children Meetings as applicable.
• Attend local, state and regional conferences for professional development as approved and
applicable.
• Learn content and provide technical assistance to schools and districts in the implementation
of statewide initiatives, within the assigned region, such as, but not limited to: Career
Connected Learning Framework, Industry Recognized Credentials, and the effective delivery
of CTE to as they pertain to students with disabilities in their least restrictive environment.
• Other duties as assigned

Days: 204-214 days (salary based on assigned number of days)

Anticipated Start Date: July 2026

Application Deadline: Until Filled

Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, resume, at least three professional references, and a copy of all credentials to:

Casey Enochs, Assistant Superintendent

Southern Ohio Educational Service Center

3321 Airborne Road, Wilmington, Ohio 45177

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 937-382-6921, ext. 1039

Southern Ohio Educational Service Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression of any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.