Director of Career & Technical Education - #259399

Flsa Status

Exempt

Job Title

Director of Career & Technical Education

Qualifications

• Mississippi Educator license
• BA or BS Degree(s), MA/MS preferred
• Appropriate Administrator license.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
  
  

Reports To

Principal

Job Goal

To provide students enrolled in the vocational education program with education and training of sufficient excellence to enable them upon graduation to enter the job market with well-developed skills, varied intellectual interests, and sufficient understanding and curiosity to continue their growth and maturation as workers and as individuals.

Performance Responsibilities

• Supervise staff members designated by the High School Principal.
• Formulate and administer a comprehensive, modern program of vocational and technical education.
• Maintain close working relationships with community and state agencies and area businesses, industries, and labor organizations to provide training consistent with needs, and establish lay advisory committees as needed.
• Continuously appraise and evaluate the total vocational program to achieve the established goals of providing the opportunity for people to prepare for gainful employment.
• Maintain current knowledge of all pertinent rules and regulations affecting vocational education programs.
• Advise and assist in obtaining state and federal funds for vocational and technical education programs.
• Assume responsibility for the collection, review, and submission of all forms and reports relative to vocational education to state agencies.
• Supervise and evaluate all instructional personnel in the vocational education program.
• Coordinate the gathering, selecting, and analysis of data with respect to jobs available to local high school graduates.
• Work to identify and define local job opportunities and the role of the schools in meeting these opportunities.
• Coordinate all work-experience programs in the schools.
• Arrange and direct in-service education for the staff.
• Interpret the vocational education program to the public.
• Prepare and administer the departmental budget.
• Make recommendations for long-term adjustments, changes, additions, and deletions in the vocational education program to meet changing job trends and needs.
• Assist in the recruitment and screening of vocational teachers.
• Maintain membership in and participate in the affairs of professional societies devoted to the advancement of vocational education.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, objects, tools, controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Salary and work year to be established by the Board.

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.

Reviewed By

Scott Williams

Date

6-5-25