Career Pathway and College Partnerships Coordinator

Career Pathways and College Partnership Coordinator

The Career Pathways and College Partnership Coordinator supports a wide variety of teacher recruitment projects, initiatives, and activities that focus on recruiting high quality teachers and developing pre-service teacher pipelines for RPS. This role plays an integral role in supporting daily operations, key deliverables, initiatives, and strategies for the Executive Director of Talent Acquisition.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Attending college and university career fairs to recruit and hire teachers, administrators, and other personnel.
• Developing and fostering relationships with colleges and universities to grow and enhance clinical and student teaching placements in the district.
• Coordinating all clinical and student teaching placements in the district.
• Coordinating programs and duties related to student teaching including but not limited to student teacher housing, student teacher stipends, and laptop distribution and retrieval.
• Sourcing and recruiting certified staff to serve in cooperating teacher roles for clinical and student teaching candidates.
• Coordinating and facilitating all recruitment activities (marketing, candidates sourcing, application management, interviewing, etc) for Rockford Public Schools "Grow Your Own" initiatives including but not limited to Rockford University Education Pathway, LEAP program, and Aspiring Teacher Teachers program.
• Coordinating the NIU Tuition Waiver application and selection process.
• Maintaining all pertinent applicant and interview data in the HRIS system.
• Coordinating, developing, and implementing special tasks and projects as assigned.
• Maintaining security of confidential information.
• Carrying out such additional duties as required or as conditions necessitate.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree preferred. A combination of education and experience may substitute for a degree on a year-to-year basis. Education recruitment is desirable.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include superior collaboration skills and professionalism; dedication to team goals and success, including the ability to effectively partner with team members to achieve priority goals and a willingness and commitment to support other team members' initiatives as needed. Experience working in diverse communities. Active support of team leadership and department processes and initiatives. Excellent analytical and organizational skills, and detail orientation.

Strong, business communication skills: including speaking, actively listening, and writing. Computer literacy in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, and internet-based portals. Experience and proficiency with applicant tracking systems required;
Frontline/ Appli Track experience preferred. Ability to be self-motivated. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, multi-task, manage diverse business initiatives, to quickly adapt to evolving priorities. Ability to foster positive working relationships with all staff, guests, partners, and stakeholders, and to coordinate with teams across multiple departments.