Career Coach: Build Paths to Employment & Growth

Diversified Services Network, Inc.; Evansville (IN); Vor Ort; USD 25.000 - 28.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Diversified Services Network Inc. is seeking a Career Coach for a long-term project serving Vanderburgh County and based at the Evansville, IN office.

Responsibilities include managing a caseload, providing work readiness counseling and mentoring, developing individualized employment plans, coordinating with local resources, and tracking participant progress toward self-sufficiency and employment retention.

Qualifikationen

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated customer service skills.
• Frequent local travel required.

Aufgaben

• Manages a caseload of participants and provides work readiness 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 employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

Customer service

Local travel

Ausbildung

Associate's degree

12 months of related work experience

Jobbeschreibung

Diversified Services Network Inc. is seeking a Career Coach for a long-term project serving Vanderburgh County and based at the Evansville, IN office.

Responsibilities include managing a caseload, providing work readiness counseling and mentoring, developing individualized employment plans, coordinating with local resources, and tracking participant progress toward self-sufficiency and employment retention.