Head Start Coordinator

Selection Criteria

1. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in middle and senior year student career pathways and the interconnect with meaningful student outcomes;

    

2. Demonstrated capacity to engage students or industry with program models and manage program data in accordance with government and education policy;

    

3. Experienced in advanced interventions in dealing with particularly complex cases that may require cross-profession or industry collaboration;

    

4. Effective communication skills when engaging with various stakeholders and levels of management including a commitment to the DET values;

    

5. Effective management of personal workload and motivation to deliver a program that rests across a large number of stakeholders, including student and support networks, schools and education systems, industry and workplace compliance and overarching state and Commonwealth regulations;

    

6. Demonstrated proficiency in data systems and analysis. 

Role

Head Start is a wraparound service provision that powers school-based apprenticeships and traineeships. Head Start aims to improve the outcomes, quality assurance and equitable distribution of opportunities for senior secondary and special education students who undertake school-based apprenticeships and traineeships (SBATs). Head Start also considers middle school students preparedness for success in the SBATs program. The Head Start SBAT program was piloted in over 150 schools from 2019 with strong outcomes and has expanded to cover the whole state. 

The program will introduce more rigorous SBAT compliance and monitoring across the sys…