Open Positions for ISD 286 Brooklyn Center

Openings as of 4/25/2025

College and Career Ready Coordinator

JobID: 3036

Position Type:
  Unaffiliated


Date Posted:
  3/14/2025


Location:
  Brooklyn Center Middle/High School


Date Available:
  Immediate


Closing Date:
  05/01/2025


  
The Brooklyn Center Community School (BCCS) District is seeking applicants to join our Secondary team as a College and Career (CCRC)  Ready Coordinator.  The purpose of the CCR Counselor is to prepare students for success transitioning into high school and for future college and career success. The Career and College Readiness Coordinator at Brooklyn Center Community Schools will implement and manage the GET READY cohort program funded through the Minnesota Department of Education. This position will support students beginning with 6th and 7th-grade cohorts and follow them throughout their educational journey through graduation while also providing targeted support to 12th-grade students each year.
 
BCCS is looking for applicants driven to uphold our Mission: To become a justice-center school community who fuels the unique genius of each student.

BCCS Core Values - Written on a foundation of student voice, our district core values communicate the culture and character of Brooklyn Center Community Schools. 
• We demonstrate passion, pride, and perseverance
• We acknowledge and disrupt oppressive systems
• Our diversity fuels learning
• We fiercely lead in justice-centered educated
• We stand front and center

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Program Implementation and Management
• Develop and implement a comprehensive cohort-based college and career readiness program that begins with 6th and 7th-grade students and follows them through graduation.
• Simultaneously, targeted college and career readiness support is provided to 12th-grade students annually.
• Track student progress and program outcomes to ensure grant compliance and program effectiveness
• Manage grant budget and reporting requirements for the MDE GET READY program.
• Develop annual work plans aligned with grant goals and school district priorities.
Student Services
• Facilitate regular college and career readiness workshops, activities, and field experiences appropriate for each grade level.
• Provide individualized guidance on academic planning, course selection, and post-secondary options.
• Support students with college application processes, financial aid applications, and scholarship opportunities.
• Connect students with relevant internships, job shadowing, and career exploration opportunities.
• Administer career interest and aptitude assessments to help students identify potential career pathways.
Relationship Building
• Establish relationships with local colleges, universities, technical schools, and employers.
• Collaborate with school counselors, teachers, and administrators to integrate college and career readiness into the curriculum.
• Engage with families through regular communication, workshops, and events to support their children's post-secondary planning.
• Develop partnerships with community organizations that can provide additional resources and opportunities for students.
• Coordinate with other GET READY programs across Minnesota to share best practices.

Knowledge, Skills, and, Abilities Preferred:
• Thorough knowledge of school and district rules, regulations, and procedures; 
• Knowledge of techniques to engage and motivate students; 
• Knowledge of skills required in post-secondary environments; 
• Good judgment and decision-making;
• Ability to deliver articulate verbal presentations and written reports; 
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, students, parents, and the general community; 
• Ability to relate and communicate effectively with people of different cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds; 
• Demonstrated success working effectively in a diverse, collaborative team environment, with skills in promoting cultural inclusiveness; 
• Ability to use software and various research methods to help in decision-making for college choices and career planning; 
• Ability to organize and maintain confidential records; 
• Ability to serve as a member of the professional learning community to promote an educational climate in which students can grow intellectually and emotionally. 

Duty Days: 203 duty days, 8 hours per day 
Qualifications:  Bachelor Degree or in a Bachelor Degree program, School Counselor license preferred. 
Pay and Benefits:  $51,000- $65,000

Why Choose BCCS?
• Flexible and Affordable Medical Insurance Options
• Dental Insurance
• Group Life and AD&D Insurance
• Supplemental Life and Dependent Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability (LTD) Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Pet Insurance
• Full service community school
• AllOne Health: Supportive counseling and coaching
• Breastfeeding Friendly Certified Workplace
• Staff Wellness Opportunities: Annual benefits fair, wellness challenges and campaigns, free yoga and personal trainer sessions
• Good Human Work: Free onsite therapy service
• NeoPath Health Clinic: Onsite medical care to help you improve your overall health and wellness.  The clinic offers all of the primary care services you would expect from a family physician/general practitioner.
  
We're not a community on the fringe, we're a community moving toward a center.
Moving in unison with a shift in cultural expectations.  
Our voice and achievement will not be disqualified, we're moving toward a change in history and hearts.  
Standing FRONT AND CENTER so we are seen and heard.
Application Process:
Please select this link to learn more about Brooklyn Center Community Schools: https://www.bccs286.org/
Please select this link to apply online:   https://www.applitrack.com/brooklyncenterschools/onlineapp/

BROOKLYN CENTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:  
 
Brooklyn Center Community Schools is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment in accordance with all applicable Equal Opportunity laws, directives and regulations of Federal, State and Local governing bodies or agencies. Brooklyn Center Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, gender identity and expression, disability, age, or status



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• College and Career Ready Coordinator 2025.pdf



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