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Job Goal: The Special Education Transition Coordinator is responsible for empowering high school students with disabilities to achieve meaningful post-secondary outcomes by developing individualized transition plans, fostering self-advocacy skills, and building strong partnerships among families, school staff, and community agencies.
Reports to: Director of Student Services
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with special education teachers to develop and monitor transition components of IEPs in compliance with IDEA.
- Conduct and/or support the facilitation of age-appropriate transition assessments.
- Coordinate vocational training, job shadowing, internships, and community-based instruction.
- Collaborate with agencies such as Vocational Rehabilitation and local workforce development programs.
- Support students in applying to colleges, trade schools, or employment programs as needed.
- Provide instruction in self-advocacy, independent living, and career readiness skills.
- Facilitate family engagement and transition planning meetings.
- Track post-secondary outcomes and maintain required documentation.
- Attend all required meetings, trainings, and educational classes as required.
- Maintain a clean and safe environment.
- Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Currently hold a Wisconsin DPI teacher certification in appropriate developmental level.
- Minimum of 3 years successful teaching experience preferred.
- Understanding of DVR and other post secondary/community employment supports.
- Ability to be a part of a collaborative team supporting students with post secondary transition needs.
- Knowledge of transition assessments.
- Ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds and needs.
- Ability to collect and interpret data.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
This work regularly requires sitting, standing, walking, speaking, hearing and occasionally requires pushing, pulling, lifting, and operating machines; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, and observing general surroundings and activities; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. school offices/classrooms/passageways).
Salary/Benefits
$48,533/year+
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