Bentonville Schools

Ignite Coordinator (Student Experience)
Days 192 - Licensed Teacher
Purpose
Ensure a high-quality, seamless student experience across IGNITE by leading student recruitment, advising, career readiness, and preparation for internships, clinicals, and other professional experiences. This role serves as a critical bridge between students, families, faculty, and industry and clinical partnersensuring students are prepared, compliant, connected, and ready to succeed beyond the IGNITE classroom.
Key Responsibilities
Student Recruitment, Advising &amp; Outcomes
<ul>
<li>Lead and support IGNITE student recruitment, onboarding, advising, and retention efforts.</li>
<li>Serve as a trusted point of contact for students and families throughout the IGNITE experience.</li>
<li>Monitor student progress toward program, credential, internship, clinical, and professional experience requirements.</li>
<li>Support post-IGNITE outcome tracking, including employment, postsecondary education, credentials, and other career-related outcomes.</li>
<li>Identify student needs and coordinate appropriate support with faculty, counselors, administrators, and partners.</li>
</ul>
Clinical, Internship &amp; Professional Experience Readiness
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<li>Ensure students are fully prepared, compliant, and supported for clinicals, internships, work-based learning, and other professional experiencesfrom onboarding through placement and completion.
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<li>Oversee Ignite Health Sciences Body of Training requirements, including:
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<li>IGNITE Health Sciences Body of Training
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<li>HIPAA training
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<li>CPR certification
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<li>Background checks and drug testing
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<li>Immunization and TB screening documentation
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<li>Clinical orientation and readiness sessions
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<li>Coordinate student scheduling, site assignments, onboarding, and confirmation of readiness for clinical rotations and other professional experiences.
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<li>Maintain accurate, confidential, and up-to-date student compliance and placement records.
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<li>Serve as the primary point of contact for clinical and industry partners regarding student onboarding, requirements, placement logistics, and readiness.
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<li>Maintain current site agreements, affiliation agreements, partner documentation, and other placement-related records.
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<li>Proactively identify and resolve barriers that could affect student placement or successful completion of clinical and internship experiences.
</li>
</ul>
Career Readiness &amp; Professional Experiences
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<li>Develop and coordinate opportunities that strengthen students' professional skills, networks, and career readiness.
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<li>Co-plan and execute student-facing experiences, including:
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<li>Speaker series and career panels
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<li>Career-readiness workshops
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<li>Career and college fairs
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<li>Student showcases and expos
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<li>IGNITE Summit and other signature events
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<li>Internship and job placement opportunities
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<li>Professional networking and industry engagement experiences
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<li>Help students translate their IGNITE experiences into resumes, portfolios, interviews, professional networks, and next-step opportunities.
</li>
<li>Build systems that connect students with relevant employers, mentors, internship opportunities, and postsecondary pathways.
</li>
</ul>
Partnership &amp; Program Support
<ul>
<li>Build strong, responsive relationships with clinical, industry, higher education, and community partners.</li>
<li>Coordinate communication among students, families, faculty, and external partners to ensure a consistent and professional experience.</li>
<li>Support the development and implementation of systems that improve student readiness, placement, communication, and outcomes.</li>
<li>Contribute to continuous improvement of the IGNITE student experience through data, student feedback, staff support, partner feedback, and outcome measures.</li>
<li>Represent IGNITE professionally at student, family, partner, and community events.</li>
</ul>
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Additional Duties
Performs other related tasks as assigned by the Principal and other central office administrators as designated by the Superintendent.
Note:
The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task or responsibility.
Supervisory Responsibilities
All students in the Ignite Program
Job Qualifications
<ul>
<li>To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.</li>
<li>The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.</li>
<li>Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</li>
</ul>
Certification/License
<ul>
<li>Valid Teaching License</li>
</ul>
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Language Skills
<ul>
<li>Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.</li>
<li>Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.</li>
<li>Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of students, administrators, staff and the general public.</li>
</ul>
Mathematical Skills
<ul>
<li>Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.</li>
<li>Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.</li>
</ul>
Reasoning Ability
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<li>Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.</li>
<li>Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, table or schedule form.</li>
</ul>
Other Skills And Abilities
<ul>
<li>Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to the college and career advising program.</li>
<li>Ability to plan and implement workshops and training beneficial to college and career transitions.</li>
<li>Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers and parents.</li>
<li>Skill in oral and written communication.</li>
<li>Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.</li>
<li>Ability to analyze test data for use in making college and career advisinging decisions.</li>
<li>General computer skills, including Internet research skills, and data entry.</li>
</ul>
Physical Demands
<ul>
<li>The physical demands described here are representative of these that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.</li>
<li>Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</li>
<li>While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, talk, hear, sometimes walk and/or sit.</li>
<li>While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 50 pounds such as a box of books.</li>
<li>The employee is directly responsible for the safety, well-being or work output of other people.</li>
<li>Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as to read handwritten or typed material and the ability to adjust focus.</li>
<li>The position requires the individual to meet multiple demands from several people and interact with the public and other staff.</li>
</ul>
Work Environment
<ul>
<li>The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.</li>
<li>Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</li>
<li>The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud.</li>
<li>Duties are performed indoors and occasionally outdoors.</li>
<li>The information in this job description is for compliance with the Americans for Disabilities Act (A.D.A) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position.</li>
<li>Additional duties are performed by the individual(s) holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.</li>
</ul>
FLSA Status
Exempt

Ignite Coordinator (Student Experience) One Year Only

Ignite Coordinator (Student Experience) One Year Only

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