JAG Specialist - Teacher; America’s Graduates

Applications will be accepted
Tuesday, July 7, 2026 12:00 AM
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Monday, July 13, 2026 11:59 PM
(Central Standard Time)

Job Description

• Full-time with benefits
  • 75% of health & dental insurance premiums paid
  • Vision & Symetra coverage available
  • South Dakota Retirement benefits
  • $25,000 life insurance policy
  • Personal & sick leave package
• Brookings High School
• Federally funded position
• $53,092/year plus education & experience (pro-rated for this school year)
• Position closes 7/13/26

Summary of Responsibilities

Primarily responsible for fully implementing the Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) Model in the school. The JAG Specialist takes personal responsibility for ensuring that the targeted students who are at risk of dropping out of school and/or failing to successfully transition into the workplace achieve expected outcomes, including graduation and placement into postsecondary education, the workforce and/or the military. To achieve the expected outcomes, the JAG Specialist will provide participating youth with employability and life survival skills through classroom instruction based on JAG’s competencies, guidance/counseling, academic remediation, work-based learning experiences, postsecondary and career advisement, and provide a twelve‑month follow‑up period following graduation.

The goals are:

• Ensure students are moving through the system and are receiving support to graduate from high school and move into postsecondary education, employment and/or military post‑graduation. If students are non‑graduates, provide support services to these students to ensure attainments of diploma or GED during the 12‑month follow‑up period.
• Create a sustainable system of support throughout the local community for students through graduation and for one year of follow‑up services.
• Ensure high levels of accountability for student success and services provided to all students, documented through the electronic‑National Database Management System (e‑NDMS).
• Achieve expected state and national performance outcomes by providing students with the following opportunities: employability skills, guidance/counseling, academic remediation, career and postsecondary planning, and a twelve‑month follow‑up period.

• Establish a positive and on‑going supportive relationship with students, families, local principals, administrators and school faculty to support students in the local JAG‑SD program. Serve as a student advocate when collaborating with school staff in developing intervention plans for struggling students.
• Collaborate with program’s in‑school advisory committee (school counselors, advisors, administrators, and teachers) to implement the JAG curriculum and to consistently build support for academic success, career exploration, goal setting, leadership development, college planning, personal counseling; either directly or through linkages in the community to assist in overcoming barriers to graduation and/or success in the workplace.
• Advocate for the program and create an employer marketing plan to develop a pool of effective community support resources by working with employers, parents, civic groups, and community leaders to build awareness of and support for this unique program; develop service learning projects, create a pool of classroom speakers, participate in public relations activities, attend meetings and speak to community groups.
• Provide supportive services to program participants for a 12‑month period after high school graduation and direct follow‑up for students transitioning from middle school to high school to ensure successful transition to high school, postsecondary education, employment and/or military. If students are non‑graduates, provide support services to these students to ensure attainments of diploma or GED during the 12‑month