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Job Duties and Responsibilities: The coordinator would become the primary lead planner and spokesperson for the initiative and carry out the following roles during year one of the partnership: 1. Lead the implementation of a strategic roadmap; 2. Conduct a needs assessment to determine predominant student career interests and the exploration of high wage, high demand careers in Dakota County and the metro region to determine what pathways to recommend; 3. Complete an analysis of current student achievement data, course completions, credits earned, and the financial savings to families when credits are earned in high school to serve as baseline data; 4. Engage in outreach to our postsecondary partners to develop common agreements around course offerings (including staff credentials, credits earned, financial agreements, etc.); 5. Engage in outreach to our current business, nonprofit, and industry partners to engage them in the initiative, as well as expand the number of partners; 6. Conduct ongoing research into emerging models and map trends in the area of career and college readiness; 7. Work closely with the counseling departments in each school district to develop a robust career exploration and guidance strategy to support the model; 8. Work closely with faculty to enlist their support and lead the innovation needed to create and design a working model; 9. Work closely with parents to develop a model for parent engagement; 10. Work with the finance directors from each district to project a working budget, to include revenues and expenditures that can be sustained well into the future. Job duties will be adjusted as the initiative progresses: Indicators of Success: Year One 1. Defined pathways with stackable credentials are developed. 2. Revenues to fund the project have been defined. 3. Business and postsecondary partners have been secured. 4. A marketing plan has been developed.