Coach: College & Career Pathways - Oakland Technical High School (2025-26)

About the position

Under minimal supervision, support the District's strategic plan to ensure all students are college, career and community ready. Promote the District's mission of graduating students who are college, career, and community ready by leveraging relationships within the local and national communities to ensure all secondary school students, including those with alternative educational needs, have the means, opportunity, and preparation to attend college and to function effectively in the work place. Develop, coordinate and manage the College and Career Pathways and other initiatives aimed at helping more students succeed academically, including a comprehensive program of business and community internships and work experiences that bring community partners and the District together to achieve this goal.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate, promote and participate in the establishment and practice of pathway Communities of Practice that support student achievement of pathway student learning outcomes, the OUSD Graduate Profile and College, Career and Community Readiness.
• Develop and implement pathway coaching plans that support a cycle of continuous improvement that are aligned to the Linked Learning model of high quality college and career pathways improvement for the purpose of achieving 'Certified' status in the Linked Learning Pathway Quality Review.
• Serve as the pathway contact person for business, community, and post-secondary partners for instructional and advisory supports aligned to pathway student learning outcomes and work-based learning goals.
• Facilitate assessment of Behaviors of Learning and Teaching (BLT) and create and lead appropriate pathway staff development BLTs including, Inquiry and/or Project Based Learning, Analysis of Student Work, Communities of Practice, Curriculum Mapping, and Development of Cross Discipline Integrated lessons and projects.
• Serve as the liaison among faculty and leadership in the school in developing and sustaining college and career pathways.
• Partner with the school site principal, community school managers and instructional leadership team to implement and advocate for the college and career pathway improvement plans for his/her high school.
• Serve on school leadership team and school site council to align College and Career Pathway District initiatives with the school improvement plan.
• Serve on the master scheduling school site team which develops and updates scheduling of students for proper placement and purity in pathways and common planning time for pathway teachers.
• Coordinate a 9th grade Academy recruitment program including student application, selection, and acceptance to ensure academies reflect the demographics of the school site.
• Coordinate academy outreach and awareness at local middle school feeder schools.
• Serve as the liaison between school sites, academy directors and the District Linked Learning office.
• Attend regular academy collaboration meetings to support academy functions.
• Advise site level administrators and teachers on the 9th grade advisory curriculum pertaining to academies.
• Support the development of and ensure the completion of pathway action plans, calendar of events and budget for pathways.
• Coordinate and implement pathway advisory boards with support from the OUSD Workforce Development Coordinator, school site community school manager, and CTE Specialist.
• Develop and coordinate job shadowing, student internships, teacher externships, guest speakers, field trips, and other experiential learning experiences.
• Support the development of dual enrollment/articulation agreements between high school and post-secondary partners.
• Collect, analyze and disseminate community partner data for business, community, and post-secondary partners.
• Provide cross-training to other staff members within the department.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• 3 years of College and Career Pathways or Small Learning Community teaching experience in any subject.
• Experience as a classroom teacher required.
• Valid California Driver's License.
• Employment eligibility will include fingerprints, tuberculosis and/or other employment clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of California Department of Education Frameworks governing work scope such as: Common Core Standards, Content Standards, Curriculum, Response to Intervention, Full Service Community Schools.
• Linked Learning preferred.
• Effective project management.
• Local and national career preparedness trends.