Career Development Educator

Job Description

Position Title: Career Development Educator

Location: West Fargo High School

Department: Special Education

Reports To: Building Principal

Term: Non-continuing contract for remainder of 2025-26 school year. Potential for renewing 188-day contract beginning with 2026-27 school year. Follows school calendar.

Schedule: Mon-Fri Full-time

Salary: Positions follows the  Teacher Salary Schedule

Date of last review: January 2026

The Career Development Educator provides instruction, guidance, and support to learners across Career Development courses and CTE (Career and Technical Education) programs, with an emphasis on serving learners receiving Special Education services. This position supports learners in building future-ready skills, exploring career pathways, and engaging in work-based learning opportunities. The educator collaborates closely with Special Education teams, case managers, related service providers, and community partners.

The educator maintains required vocational and transition documentation and supports learners’ academic, social, and career development in alignment with federal, state, and district expectations.

Please complete the application and include up-to-date, relevant submissions of your resume, letter of interest, and three letters of recommendation. Please also include your transcripts and a copy of your licensure through ESPB, if available.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and requirement satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Collaborates with Special Education programs to schedule learners into Career Development and workshop courses.
• Attends IEP (Individualized Education Program) meetings and works with case managers, counselors, and CTE staff.
• Coordinates with agencies and job coaches to support work-based learning.
• Attends Special Education Department Meetings.
• Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
• Engages with other district staff in the professional learning community process.

• Communicates learner progress, program expectations, and worksite needs to stakeholders.
• Uploads required documents and manages data for vocational and transition services.
• Maintains communication with supervisors, job coaches, and community partners
• Connects and shares ideas through appropriate/applicable formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
• Utilizes effective communication skills to facilitate connection and sharing of thoughts and ideas in multiple formats with diverse audiences.
• Establishes and clearly articulates procedures and routines that promote efficiency and appropriate use of time.
• Clearly communicates the instructional purpose of each lesson and makes connections to prior learning.
• Engages learners in meaningful direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice.
• Utilizes questions, discussions, and dialogue that promote critical thinking about diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and experiences.

• Supports learners with diverse academic, social, and career-readiness needs.
• Assists learners in problem-solving challenges in CTE courses or worksites.
• Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
• Empowers learners to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic learners, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
• Understands the complexities of cultural and global issues and how they relate to employee and learners’ experiences.
• Partners with others to resolve potential controversy and conflict through respectful discussion.

• Designs engaging career development lessons including job‑seeking skills and simulated business tasks.
• Implements creative instructional strategies to support individualized learning.
• Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
• Utiliz…