Director of Healthcare Development

Job Description:

Hendricks CareerTek is a state-of-the-art, not-for-profit career center offering innovative, nimble, and experiential career exploration and learning opportunities for young people. Partnering with business, education providers, parents, and workforce professionals, CareerTek works to build experiential pipelines in demand occupations in order to position area youth for successful post-secondary transitions and to create strong talent pipelines in the Greater Beloit region. The Center is a collaborative project of the Stateline Boys and Girls Clubs and the Hendricks Family Foundation.

Position Summary: 

Position is responsible for providing robust healthcare pathway opportunities for students and building a talent pipeline for employers. This position will develop quality interactive programs, events, and experiences to expose and inform students in order to increase their ability to make effective career-related decisions. The Healthcare Pathways Director will build partnerships and facilitate working connections between educational organizations and business partners within the Greater Beloit Area. This person will serve as a central point of contact to design innovative and high-quality student and business connections and learning/training opportunities in the healthcare field.

Required Characteristics:

The ideal candidate for this position will be an experienced, career-focused educator with a proven ability to work effectively with a diverse demographic of students and parents, school districts, and industry professionals. The candidate will be driven to excellence and passionately committed to educating young people and helping to position them for a successful future. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an understanding of healthcare career pathway needs of educators and businesses, and will blend those to create experiential opportunities for youth. The candidate will be innovative with an ability to creatively implement strategies to build healthcare career exploration opportunities. The candidate will combine education experience with workforce knowledge in order to assist with the continuation of building CareerTek into a model for career pathway planning.

Duties and Assignments:

1. Develop and implement CareerTek healthcare educational programming in order to support the effective achievement of CareerTek goals and strategic plans with an emphasis on building hands-on, experiential learning opportunities.
2. Oversee and prepare students for the CNA Scholarship Program.
3. Plan and implement engaging healthcare-related after-school programming, job shadow placements, events, summer academies, certification programs, and career explorations. 
4. Assist with the building and maintenance of strong healthcare partnerships.
5. Work in coordination with CareerTek team members and community partners to understand regional talent needs in order to ensure that opportunities are both industry-informed and appropriate for middle and high school students.
6. Create and maintain collaborative working partnerships with Greater Beloit Area School District leadership and key CTE partners.
7. Build opportunities to offer regional, multi-district career-focused healthcare programming.
8. Act as a key community leader and expert on healthcare career pathway activities.
9. Collaborate with healthcare partners and develop the “Dare to Dream, Healing the Future” event
10. Support the CareerTek team in identifying and maintaining the educational needs and materials for Healthcare and other programming.
11. Support the “Dare to Dream Building the Future” event.
12. Support the Resume/Mock Interview program.
13. Ensure all technology needs are considered and consistently maintained and updated.
14. Support the College and Career Scholarship interviews and selection process.

Disclosure:

This position description is not an all-inclusive listing of job duties and functions. Other duties outside of this position description may be assigned to the position.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Associate degree in Healthcare, Education, Public Health, or a related field required.
2. Experience working with middle and high school-aged youth in an education or healthcare career environment.
3. Knowledge and experience collaborating with educational institutions and programs preferred.
4. Have or be willing to obtain healthcare-related certifications or training. 

Additional Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

1. Ability to work in a team-oriented environment and must be self-driven.
2. Ability to maintain confidentiality of business and student information.
3. Must have exceptional internal and external customer relationship/communication skills.
4. Ability to interact with diverse populations.
5. Detail-oriented, with the ability to understand budgets and cost of training programs.
6. Ability to manage multiple, complex projects.
7. Ability to organize, coordinate, and prioritize job duties.
8. Proficient with Google Workspace and email communication platforms.