Kentucky Community & Technical College System
Career Services Counselor II - Career Navigator
🇺🇸
Lexington, KY
🕑
Full-Time
💰
$3,162 - $3,796
per Month
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Career Services
🗓️
March 19th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Bluegrass Community & Technical College is hiring a Career Services Counselor II - Career Navigator. This role involves developing and managing work-based learning initiatives for students and employers, including internships and cooperative education, while collaborating with college leadership, faculty, and staff.
Highlights
- Develop and expand work-based learning opportunities such as internships and cooperative education for students.
- Recruit and maintain relationships with companies to facilitate successful program completion and transitions.
- Support job fairs and employment-related student activities under Career Services Center Director guidance.
- Promote platforms like Handshake and My Majors to employers and students to enhance job matching and career assessments.
- Collaborate with faculty and student success staff to support impactful work-based learning and career services.
- Create social media marketing campaigns for the Office of Career, Employment and Work-Based Learning.
- Requires a Bachelor's Degree in business, Human Resources, Career and Technical Education, Counseling, or related field with 2 years of related experience (preferred 4 years).
- Experience in higher education and working with business and industry is beneficial; bilingual skills preferred.
- Offers a salary range of $3,162 to $3,796 per month with competitive benefits including health coverage, tuition reimbursement, retirement plan, and paid holidays.
- Reports to the Career Services Center Director within the Advancement and Workforce Development department.
Career Services Counselor II - Career Navigator Full Description
Title: Career Services Counselor II - Career Navigator
Salary Range: $3162- $3796
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.5
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
College: Bluegrass Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Bluegrass C&TC - Leestown Campus
Department: Advancement and Workforce Development
Total Rewards
Bluegrass Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
Working collaboratively with college leadership, faculty, and staff, the Career Navigator holds responsibility for developing and managing BCTC’s work-based learning initiatives for students and employers. Work-Based Learning opportunities include cooperative education experiences, internships, micro-internships, student activities and working with students in different career pathways. The position reports to the Career Services Center Director in the Advancement and Workforce Development department. This is a grant funded position.
Job Duties: Expand upon the number of work-based learning opportunities for students to include internships and cooperative education opportunities.
Recruits new companies while also serving as the primary contact for work-based learning to ensure they successfully complete the program and transition into the company.
Works under the leadership of the Career Services Center Director to conduct job fairs, employment-related student support activities, etc.
Develop relationships with business and industry partners to promote BCTC work-based learning opportunities for students and graduates.
Promote Handshake platform to employers and students to create suitable matches for co-ops, internships, apprenticeships, and part-time, or full-time positions.
Promote My Majors platform to students to ensure the career assessment tool is fully utilized.
Works collaboratively with Faculty Cooperative Education Coordinator to support impactful work-based learning opportunities for students.
Works collaboratively with Student Success Career Coaches/Advisors to ensure staff are prepared to provide career assessment services to current applicants/students.
Develops social media assets and communicates regularly on social media platforms to provide a robust marketing campaign for the Office of Career, Employment and Work-Based Learning.
Works collaboratively with faculty and staff at the college to ensure work-based learning opportunities are advertised and communicated across the college.
Works with students to support career pathways and assist them in finding the right fit for them.
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in business, Human Resources, Career and Technical Education, Counseling, or related field preferred and 2 years of related experience or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in business, Human Resources, Career and Technical Education, Counseling, or related field and 4 years experience
Additional Skills Requested:
Commitment to the mission of the comprehensive community and technical college.
Experience working in higher education.
Experience working with business and industry.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with others.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
Bilingual preferred.
Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.
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