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Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College

Health Career Coordinator/Student Support Specialist II (Southeast KY CTC)

🇺🇸 Hazard, Kentucky 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $38K 💻 Career Services 🗓️ October 5th, 2026
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Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College is hiring a Health Career Coordinator/Student Support Specialist II (Southeast KY CTC) to build interest in the healthcare workforce among middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. The coordinator recruits students into health careers programming, partners with public and private schools, and points students toward academic support, mentoring, career counseling, and health care services.

Highlights
  • Recruit students to take part in health careers programming.
  • Plan and provide programming for middle, high, and post-secondary students.
  • Guide students toward academic support, mentoring, career counseling, mental and physical health care, and financial management services.
  • Develop partnerships with public and private schools to carry out programming.
  • Evaluate programming for effectiveness and quality.
  • Attend scheduled meetings that include local, statewide, and national travel.
  • Hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.
  • Work on-site at the Hazard AHEC office on a 12-month, 37.5-hour-per-week schedule.
  • Fill a grant-funded role that runs through 06/30/2027, with possible extension to 09/30/2027.
  • Pay of $37,944 per year plus health, vision, and dental coverage, tuition reimbursement or waiver for family members, and a 403(b) with a 10% employer match on a 5% contribution.

Health Career Coordinator/Student Support Specialist II (Southeast KY CTC) Full Description

Title:
Health Career Coordinator/Student Support Specialist II
Salary:
$37,944.00
Contract Term Length:
12 Months
Standard Hours:
37.5
Work Location:
On-Site/Hazard AHEC office
FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt
College:
Southeast KY Community & Technical College
Campus Location:
Hazard AHEC/Southeast Cumberland C.C.
Department:
Allied Health

Total Rewards
Southeast KY Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity, including:
  • Exceptional health care, vision, and 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
To provide healthcare workforce educational opportunities for middle, high, and post-secondary students to foster interest in the healthcare workforce sector.
These positions are based in Hazard, Kentucky, and will serve the Southeast Kentucky AHEC region.
This is a grant funded position that ends 06/30/2027 with possible extension to 09/30/2027 then another year of funding will be considered.

Job Duties:
  • Recruits’ students to participate in health careers programming. Provides general guidance to students who need help navigating resources such as academic support services, mentoring and career counseling programs, mental and physical health care services, and financial management services.
  • Plans and provides health careers programming for middle, high, and post-secondary students within the Southeast Kentucky service region.
  • Develop partnerships with public and private schools to carry out identified programming.
  • Evaluates programming for effectiveness and quality.
  • Participate in scheduled meetings that shall include local, statewide, and national travel.
Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience.
Additional Skills Requested:
Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.