As a Transition Coordinator with The Menta Education Group you will prepare students aged 14-22 to embrace life after school in a behavioral emotional and social capacity. You will bridge the critical gap between school and adult life by implementing an outside-the-school-walls mindset that centers on fostering student independence building robust community networks and navigating the real world.
Aurora IL.
General Staff Hours 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday Occasional responsibilities beyond work hours.
Responsibilities
Student Support Coaching & Self-Advocacy
Supervision & Behavioral Management: Supervise students in groups and individually monitoring behavior to ensure alignment with programmatic expectations.
Student Counseling: Counsel students on personal social behavioral or academic issues affecting their educational progress.
Person-Centered Planning: Ensure every student actively leads or participates in their own Individualized Education Program (IEP) transition meetings. Utilize assistive technology visual choice boards or person-centered tools to provide a voice for students with limited or non-verbal communication.
Goal Realism & Guidance: Manage complex dynamics where a students post-secondary dream conflicts with parental wishes or current skill realities. Apply strategies like failing safely (e.g. career-testing job shadowing and temporary classes) alongside stepping-stone goals to gently navigate reality without crushing student ambition.
Compliance Data & Transition Assessments
Student Evaluations: Evaluate individual student abilities interests and personality characteristics using tests records interviews and professional sources.
Multi-Faceted Assessment: Administer age-appropriate formal and informal transition assessments evaluating independent living travel/transit skills and actual work behaviors to formulate compliant measurable post-secondary goals.
IDEA Compliance: Apply strong knowledge of Individualized Education Act (IDEA) transition mandates to draft audited highly scrutinized goals and dynamically pivot plans based on assessment data.
Rigorous Progress Tracking: Utilize robust organizational systems such as digital tracking tools rubric-based feedback from job coaches and student self-monitoring checklists to track and document progress when students are off-campus at work-based learning sites.
Collaboration Networking & Program Development
Community Site Development: Develop and maintain strong relationships with community sites public transit systems and external agencies.
Work-Based Opportunities: Develop work-study programs internships and volunteer opportunities for students to gain competitive experience while completing their high school curriculum.
Agency Connections: Manage the Service Cliff by facilitating warm handovers introducing families directly to agency contacts and connecting students with Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and developmental disability boards.
Business Empathy & Partnerships: Proactively engage local business owners pitching inclusive hiring benefits and demonstrating how a transitioning student adds tangible value to their workforce.
Workplace Intervention & Crisis Management
Workplace Learning Labs: Safely intervene when work-based placements experience friction behavioral incidents or employer misunderstandings.
Student Independence Coaching: Use workplace mistakes as a live curriculum coaching students on how to navigate portals look up records request legal accommodationsand repair professional relationships independently rather than filling out paperwork for them.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelors Degree strongly preferred.
Background in education or social work preferred.
Regulatory Knowledge: Demonstrate deep compliance-centered knowledge of transitioning students as per the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates.
Transition & Coaching Experience: Documented knowledge and/or experience placing and coaching students in jobs as well as assisting them in transitioning to college career and independent life.
Systemic Mindset: Demonstrated ability to constantly focus on the real world utilizing community agency networks public transit routes and outer-community resources.
Behavioral & Performance Knowledge: Knowledge of human behavior performance and specific student needs (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder ADHD).
Professional Soft Skills: High level of professionalism strong decision-making skills and the ability to communicate calmly transparently and effectively in writing across varied audiences including resistant families school teams and litigious stakeholders.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and the employee shall perform other reasonably related school duties as assigned by administrators. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
Compensation & Benefits
In accordance with the Pay Transparency amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003information about pay ranges and employee benefits can be found at the following links:
At C.O.R.E. Academy (Cultivating an Optimal and Rigorous Education) our devoted and caring staff invests in guiding each child toward the pinnacle of 3-C Readiness: College Career and Citizenship. C.O.R.E. has educational services designed to cater to developmental milestones and individual learning nuances for each and every one of our students.
Within our interactive classrooms we create a vibrant atmosphere for active learning from K through Post High School. With an unwavering commitment to standing by every child providing the support and resources they need to overcome challenges achieve academic success make a lasting impact on their communities and unlock their full potential. From the beginning our mission has been to help shape a society where all youth can be successful.
Students Served: PK-Age 21
Professional Associations and/or Partnerships
The Menta Education Group affiliates are members/partners with CEC CASE Autism Speaks ASBA AAPSEC AASA CCSSO SEAA ASCD and many more associations that focus on the education of children with disabilities.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Menta Education Group (Menta) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed sex (including sex stereotypes sex characteristics gender identity and gender expression) color national origin religion age pregnancy or related conditions veteran status sexual orientation disability or any other basis protected under federal state or local law. Any individual needing assistance in making an application for any opening should contact Mentas office.
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As a Transition Coordinator with The Menta Education Group you will prepare students aged 14-22 to embrace life after school in a behavioral emotional and social capacity. You will bridge the critical gap between school and adult life by implementing an outside-the-school-walls mindset that centers ...
As a Transition Coordinator with The Menta Education Group you will prepare students aged 14-22 to embrace life after school in a behavioral emotional and social capacity. You will bridge the critical gap between school and adult life by implementing an outside-the-school-walls mindset that centers on fostering student independence building robust community networks and navigating the real world.
Aurora IL.
General Staff Hours 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday Occasional responsibilities beyond work hours.
Responsibilities
Student Support Coaching & Self-Advocacy
Supervision & Behavioral Management: Supervise students in groups and individually monitoring behavior to ensure alignment with programmatic expectations.
Student Counseling: Counsel students on personal social behavioral or academic issues affecting their educational progress.
Person-Centered Planning: Ensure every student actively leads or participates in their own Individualized Education Program (IEP) transition meetings. Utilize assistive technology visual choice boards or person-centered tools to provide a voice for students with limited or non-verbal communication.
Goal Realism & Guidance: Manage complex dynamics where a students post-secondary dream conflicts with parental wishes or current skill realities. Apply strategies like failing safely (e.g. career-testing job shadowing and temporary classes) alongside stepping-stone goals to gently navigate reality without crushing student ambition.
Compliance Data & Transition Assessments
Student Evaluations: Evaluate individual student abilities interests and personality characteristics using tests records interviews and professional sources.
Multi-Faceted Assessment: Administer age-appropriate formal and informal transition assessments evaluating independent living travel/transit skills and actual work behaviors to formulate compliant measurable post-secondary goals.
IDEA Compliance: Apply strong knowledge of Individualized Education Act (IDEA) transition mandates to draft audited highly scrutinized goals and dynamically pivot plans based on assessment data.
Rigorous Progress Tracking: Utilize robust organizational systems such as digital tracking tools rubric-based feedback from job coaches and student self-monitoring checklists to track and document progress when students are off-campus at work-based learning sites.
Collaboration Networking & Program Development
Community Site Development: Develop and maintain strong relationships with community sites public transit systems and external agencies.
Work-Based Opportunities: Develop work-study programs internships and volunteer opportunities for students to gain competitive experience while completing their high school curriculum.
Agency Connections: Manage the Service Cliff by facilitating warm handovers introducing families directly to agency contacts and connecting students with Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and developmental disability boards.
Business Empathy & Partnerships: Proactively engage local business owners pitching inclusive hiring benefits and demonstrating how a transitioning student adds tangible value to their workforce.
Workplace Intervention & Crisis Management
Workplace Learning Labs: Safely intervene when work-based placements experience friction behavioral incidents or employer misunderstandings.
Student Independence Coaching: Use workplace mistakes as a live curriculum coaching students on how to navigate portals look up records request legal accommodationsand repair professional relationships independently rather than filling out paperwork for them.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelors Degree strongly preferred.
Background in education or social work preferred.
Regulatory Knowledge: Demonstrate deep compliance-centered knowledge of transitioning students as per the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates.
Transition & Coaching Experience: Documented knowledge and/or experience placing and coaching students in jobs as well as assisting them in transitioning to college career and independent life.
Systemic Mindset: Demonstrated ability to constantly focus on the real world utilizing community agency networks public transit routes and outer-community resources.
Behavioral & Performance Knowledge: Knowledge of human behavior performance and specific student needs (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder ADHD).
Professional Soft Skills: High level of professionalism strong decision-making skills and the ability to communicate calmly transparently and effectively in writing across varied audiences including resistant families school teams and litigious stakeholders.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and the employee shall perform other reasonably related school duties as assigned by administrators. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
Compensation & Benefits
In accordance with the Pay Transparency amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003information about pay ranges and employee benefits can be found at the following links:
At C.O.R.E. Academy (Cultivating an Optimal and Rigorous Education) our devoted and caring staff invests in guiding each child toward the pinnacle of 3-C Readiness: College Career and Citizenship. C.O.R.E. has educational services designed to cater to developmental milestones and individual learning nuances for each and every one of our students.
Within our interactive classrooms we create a vibrant atmosphere for active learning from K through Post High School. With an unwavering commitment to standing by every child providing the support and resources they need to overcome challenges achieve academic success make a lasting impact on their communities and unlock their full potential. From the beginning our mission has been to help shape a society where all youth can be successful.
Students Served: PK-Age 21
Professional Associations and/or Partnerships
The Menta Education Group affiliates are members/partners with CEC CASE Autism Speaks ASBA AAPSEC AASA CCSSO SEAA ASCD and many more associations that focus on the education of children with disabilities.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Menta Education Group (Menta) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed sex (including sex stereotypes sex characteristics gender identity and gender expression) color national origin religion age pregnancy or related conditions veteran status sexual orientation disability or any other basis protected under federal state or local law. Any individual needing assistance in making an application for any opening should contact Mentas office.
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