# Transition Coordinator **Company**: The Menta Education Group **Location**: Bourbonnais, IL **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: Full-Time **Salary**: USD 40,000-75,000 per-year-salary **Category**: Education **Industry**: Education **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/menta/cb1ca55c-d5bf-4846-be76-946017faa52a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_48c2ee5b-cd6 ## Description 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. **Responsibilities** **Student Support, Coaching & Self-Advocacy** - Supervise students in groups and individually, monitoring behavior to ensure alignment with programmatic expectations. - Counsel students on personal, social, behavioral, or academic issues affecting their educational progress. - 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. - Manage complex dynamics where a student's 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** - Evaluate individual student abilities, interests and personality characteristics using tests, records, interviews and professional sources. - 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. - Apply strong knowledge of Individualized Education Act (IDEA) transition mandates to draft audited, highly scrutinized goals and dynamically pivot plans based on assessment data. - 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** - Develop and maintain strong relationships with community sites, public transit systems, and external agencies. - Develop work-study programs, internships, and volunteer opportunities for students to gain competitive experience while completing their high school curriculum. - 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. - 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** - Safely intervene when work-based placements experience friction, behavioral incidents, or employer misunderstandings. - Use workplace mistakes as a live curriculum, coaching students on how to navigate portals, look up records, request legal accommodations,and repair professional relationships independently rather than filling out paperwork for them. **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred. - Background in education or social work preferred. - Demonstrate deep, compliance-centered knowledge of transitioning students as per the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandates. - Documented knowledge and/or experience placing and coaching students in jobs, as well as assisting them in transitioning to college, career, and independent life. - Demonstrated ability to constantly focus on the "real world," utilizing community agency networks, public transit routes, and outer-community resources. - Knowledge of human behavior, performance, and specific student needs (e.g., Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD). - 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. **Compensation & Benefits** - Salary Range $40,000 to $75,000 annually - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance; paid time off (PTO); and a 403(b) retirement plan with an employer match. ## Skills ### Required - Individualized Education Program (IEP) - IDEA compliance - transition assessments - community networking - crisis management ### Nice to have - education - social work - Autism Spectrum Disorder - ADHD --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/menta/cb1ca55c-d5bf-4846-be76-946017faa52a?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)