MnSCU Academic Professional 2

Career and Technical Education Specialist (Perkins Grant Coordinator)

Staff

Northland Community & Technical College

Institutional Advancement

Grants

Thief River Falls or East Grand Forks

Non-Exempt

Full Time

1.0

Unlimited

Days

Monday – Friday

• • Cover letter of interest
  • Resume

 

$24.20 hourly/$50,530 annually

$35.13 hourly/$73,351 annually

214, MAPE

• Development and submission of annual performance report (APR);
• Negotiate annual Perkins accountability performance targets with state CTE staff;
• Develop annual unified campus Perkins consortium plan and budget;
• Attend Perkins related conferences and trainings;
• Manage the Perkins required PARS reporting process;
• Educate CTE academic departments, deans, and student support services on the purpose of Perkins, increasing awareness and understanding of Perkins across the College.

 

• Collaborate with advisors and admissions to build and support a continuum of career awareness and exploration events that align with Perkins targeted programs;
• Coordinate activities and events with student support services and CTE departments to improve student success, with a priority focus on efforts to improve accountability performance targets.

• Support the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act
• (Perkins V) grant priority implementation across career programs at the college;
• Coordinate the annual Perkins needs assessment process and equipment crosswalk (CLNA);
• Monitor the use of technical skills assessments, supporting updates and troubleshooting and coordinating data dissemination.

• Build relationships with faculty across career and technical programs to facilitate the coordination and tracking of advisory committee meetings;
• Participate in relevant division, department, and program director meetings;
• Ensure post event survey and results dissemination to stakeholders;
• Build and update an advisory committee effective practice tool kit for program use.

• Collaborate to schedule renewal and new articulation agreement meetings;
• Develop, manage, and renew articulation agreements.

• In partnership with academic leadership, develop and implement improvement plans and reports if the consortium does not meet negotiated targets for core accountability measures;
• Provide, or arrange with State CTE leadership to provide, technical assistance and professional development to assist consortium partners with achieving consortium goals and meeting negotiated Perkins performance indicators;

• Coordinates and directs annual spend down planning;
• Develop and manage applicant/request process for department use of unspent funds that aligns with Perkins goals and/or accountability measures;
• Coordinate Perkins related purchase and order tracking;
• Identify plan to spend reallocated budget dollars received annually from the State CTE office.

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Familiarity with the role and purpose of Career and Technical Education;
• Demonstrated knowledge of Perkins six criterion for monitoring reporting;
• Knowledge of higher education programs and organizational structures;
• Ability to monitor a budget across multiple cost centers connected to Perkins narratives;
• Customer service orientation sufficient to create a collaborative and welcoming presence in work groups, teams, and with external partners;

• Master’s degree;
• Experience working in a two-year college setting;
• Experience in designing early credit opportunities with secondary partners;
• Evidence of highly skilled interpersonal relationship building outcomes;
• Evidence of a skill set sufficient to maintain strong working relationships across internal and external partnerships.

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• 87% of employees report flexibility in their work schedule

• Public pension plan
• Training and professional development
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 11 paid holidays each year
• Paid parental leave
• Low-cost medical and dental coverage
• Prescription drug coverage
• Vision coverage
• Wellness programs and resources
• Employer paid life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Health care spending and savings accounts
• Dependent care spending account
• Tax-deferred compensation
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program

 

Posting114P

1

No

01/04/2024

11/21/2023

Yes

• • Cover letter of interest
  • Resume

 

Yes

kari.beito@northlandcollege.edu

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