Career Development & Job Readiness Coach

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

Job summary

Equus Workforce Solutions is seeking a dedicated career counselor to manage a caseload of participants, providing counseling and mentoring to help them achieve employment and self-sufficiency in Nevada. The role involves assessing needs, creating individualized employment plans, and coordinating access to training and job opportunities.

You will conduct regular meetings, track retention goals, and maintain accurate records across electronic and paper systems while engaging with diverse

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 communication

Written communication

Customer service

Community knowledge

Workforce development experience

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Related work experience

Job description

Equus Workforce Solutions is seeking a dedicated career counselor to manage a caseload of participants, providing counseling and mentoring to help them achieve employment and self-sufficiency in Nevada. The role involves assessing needs, creating individualized employment plans, and coordinating access to training and job opportunities.

You will conduct regular meetings, track retention goals, and maintain accurate records across electronic and paper systems while engaging with diverse