Director, Career Readiness

## Director, Career Readiness Apply locations:
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Posted 2 Days Agojob requisition :
R0020746
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** Administration and Professionals
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** ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
** The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students. CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.

Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results. CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future.

The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop. In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of  our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.
** BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES
** The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school.

BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.

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Executive Director, College and Career Readiness  FLSA Status:
Exempt  Salary Band: 9  Compensation: $ 86,417.00 - $     The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is in the midst of the most far-reaching transformation plan in its history to dramatically improve educational outcomes for Cleveland’s public-school scholars. We are seeking a Director of Career Readiness to systematize support strategies that assist school leaders and teachers in developing, planning, managing, organizing, and implementing all career and technical education (CTE) programming and career readiness initiatives for CMSD scholars.
This Director of Career Readiness position requires an individual with superior leadership, analytical, executional, and change-management skills. This position will serve as a key contributor to the postsecondary success of Cleveland’s teachers, leaders, and scholars.###
** ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
*** Provides direction and leadership in the development of a coherent career readiness program that includes career exploration, integration of academic and technical skills, hands-on learning to develop technical skills, work-based learning opportunities, and internships and/or apprenticeships
* Works with school leaders, counselors, and teachers to ensure that students complete all of the courses in a career pathway and to ensure that career pathways are aligned to workforce and industry needs in order for students to earn recognized credentials
* Provides professional development for and/or coaching in the area of career and technical education, specific to the courses outlined for each pathway, to ensure that students demonstrate competency and…