Career Advancement Specialist

Equus; Elko (NV); On-site; USD 38,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Equus Workforce Solutions is seeking a counselor to manage a caseload of participants and provide guidance on employment readiness, education, and job search. You will assess competencies, develop individualized employment plans, and coordinate with local resources to promote self-sufficiency.

The role involves regular one-on-one meetings, tracking retention goals, and assisting participants with training, education, and job advancement opportunities across diverse communities.

Qualifications

• Related Associate degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent work experience.
• Related work experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated customer service skills.
• Familiarity with the communities being served, with knowledge and understanding of local needs and resources.
• One to three years’ experience in workforce development or related programs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages a caseload of participants and provides counseling and mentoring.
• Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills, and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions.
• Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness.
• Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals.
• Maintains information about area resources and employers.
• Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals.
• Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment.
• Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues.
• Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement.
• Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts.
• Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued.
• Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency.
• Facilitates customer access to training, education, and to employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level.
• Display the ability to work with a variety of cultures, languages, educational and economic backgrounds in a classroom setting
• Always coordinate individual instruction in an orderly and professional manner
• Improve the job readiness score of students in workshops and deliver a pipeline of work ready customers to staff
• Introduce Company and other tools in the classroom (Resume-Pro, Company Academy, General Education Diploma Academy, Money-Skill, Project Chief Executive Officer)
• Ensure that individual participants complete and turn in assignments as scheduled
• Conduct follow-up outreach to students not engaged in classroom activities and document efforts in program issues systems
• Maintain student's assessments in files and student database
• Work well in teams, business customers and other staff
• Able to communicate effectively to both oral and written
• Additional duties as assigned

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Customer service

Team collaboration

Education

Associate degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Equus Workforce Solutions is seeking a counselor to manage a caseload of participants and provide guidance on employment readiness, education, and job search. You will assess competencies, develop individualized employment plans, and coordinate with local resources to promote self-sufficiency.

The role involves regular one-on-one meetings, tracking retention goals, and assisting participants with training, education, and job advancement opportunities across diverse communities.