Workforce Instructional Career Coach

Title: Workforce Instructional Career Coach

Agency: Piedmont Virginia Community College

Location: Charlottesville - 540

FLSA: Nonexempt

Hiring Range: $31.56/hour

Full Time or Part Time: Part Time

Additional Detail

Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) is a public, open access institution of higher education in the Virginia Community College System whose main campus is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is home to the Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall, The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and the John Paul Jones Arena (JPJ). As a comprehensive community college, the College provides quality, accessible, and affordable educational opportunities for the residents of the City of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson.

For more information, please visit: pvcc.edu

PVCC is known throughout the community and the Virginia Community College System for its exceptional faculty and staff, the quality of its programs and services, and the success of its students. PVCC seeks to attract, welcome, and retain individuals who reflect the communities we serve.

Position Title: Workforce Instructional Career Coach

Department: Workforce Development

Employment Type: Part-time, non-benefitted, grant-funded and contingent upon continued funding.

The Workforce Instructional Career Coach supports participants in the Road to Success in Virginia Program (RSVP) who are enrolled in healthcare Fast Forward programs by strengthening the integration of workplace readiness, employability skills, and digital literacy into credential training. Operating within Thomas Jefferson Adult Career Education's (TJACE) Integrated Education and Training (IET) model, the position collaborates with the TJACE Career Coach, Healthcare Workforce Development Instructor, Fast Forward Career Coach, program managers, instructors, and other Workforce Development staff to support participant persistence, training completion, credential attainment, and successful transition to employment.

As a primarily instructional and curriculum-support role, the Workforce Instructional Career Coach works directly with program managers and instructors to embed workforce readiness throughout the curriculum and student experience. The position provides in-class and supplemental learner support; delivers contextualized workplace readiness, employability skills, and digital literacy instruction aligned with healthcare credential content and program timelines; assists in assessing participants' workforce readiness and skill-development needs;

and collaborates with instructors to integrate, reinforce, and evaluate workplace readiness competencies within technical coursework.

Provide contextualized workplace-readiness and employability instruction within RSVP healthcare credential programs, including goal setting, growth mindset, digital literacy, time management, teamwork, test-taking strategies, workplace communication, professionalism, and other competencies relevant to training completion and healthcare employment.

• Provide in-class and parallel learner support aligned with healthcare credential content and training timelines to help participants develop and apply skills that contribute to successful training and credential attainment.
• Collaborate with the TJACE Career Coach, Healthcare Workforce Development instructor, Fast Forward Career Coach, and other Workforce Development staff to assess participant workplace-readiness and employability skills and digital literacy needs and identify strategies for addressing needs that may affect credential completion.
• Work with healthcare subject matter expert (SME) instructors to embed relevant workplace-readiness and employability skills and employability competencies into technical curricula and develop or adapt contextualized lesson plans, activities, scenarios, and instructional resources.
• Support SME instructors in teaching, reinforcing, and assessing workplace-readiness skills within technical instruction and in identifying opportunities for participants to demonstrate those skills through authentic learning activities.
• Develop and implement assessment strategies and tools that measure participant development of workplace-readiness and employability skills, digital literacy, and workplace-readiness competencies and provide evidence of skill development and…