Mr. Jeremy Nielsen

Director's Bio:

Mr. Jeremy Nielsen serves as Principal/Program Director of Career Center.  For the past two years, Nielsen has led Career Center's effort to increase student career readiness.  The implementation of a Career Ready framework with benchmark outcomes provides students with multiple ways to demonstrate and achieve data for accountability.  Prior to Career Center, Nielsen served as Omaha Public Schools Supervisor of Secondary Partnerships with Career Education.  In this role, Nielsen led the district effort to increase partnerships to provide dual enrollment college credit-bearing opportunities to students.  Through collaborative efforts and cooperative leadership, Mr. Nielsen created a scalable model to boost career and technical education dual enrollment that ensures equitable student access, effective partnerships, and accountability. Mr. Nielsen has been directly involved in fostering strong relationships with business/industry partners to increase student access to workplace learning opportunities as well as coordinating funding investment for the district, postsecondary partners, and philanthropic community partners to support career education program expansions.