Job Details: Job Location: Cleveland, OH 44103 - VGS - Cleveland, OH, Education Level: Bachelor's Degree, Salary Range: $50000.00 - $55000.00Salary, Job Shift: 8am - 4:30pm, Shift : Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Employment Status: Full Time, Salary
FLSA: Exempt
Travel: 50% - 75% travel during peak months
Vocational Guidance Services (VGS) changes lives and strengthens our communities through services that educate, empower, and provide the opportunity to earn a paycheck! VGS is a highly acclaimed, successful, private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) vocational rehabilitation agency with over 135 years of dedicated experience serving persons with disabilities or other barriers to employment. We are currently seeking a Manager of Summer Youth & Placement Services to perform the following job duties.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing placement staff and ensuring that the department meets budgetary goals this includes placement services,community-based work adjustment/assessments, Pre-ETS services, and/or vocational evaluation opportunities.
- Responsible for execution of all components of the summer youth program including planning and developing sites, managing transportation, completing reports, hiring of job coaches,onboarding students and job coaches, and payroll.
- Hiring and supervision of all department job coaches includingsummer youth and placement including assigning and training coaches
- Customize services and accommodate requests made by referral sources and area employers to provide new opportunities and services that best meet the needs of our individuals.
- Develop and assist in growing our services.
- Develop employer sites for summer youth programming, community based adjustment/assessments, and community employment.
- Align selection of assigned employers/businesses with the service plan/vocational goals, maintaining consistently high frequency and quality communication with individual's job placement and supports team including the coordination of vocational specialists/job coaches on site.
- Manage a caseload of less than 15 and facilitate placement into appropriate, long-term employment commensurate with individual's goals, interests, abilities, and limitations.
- Assist program individuals in their job search by ensuring they attain and maintain solid job search skills and by providing service support and coordination.
- Comply with CARF accreditation programmatic/administrative requirements.
- Liaison to the Employment Collaborative
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; and four years related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of the two is required.
- Must have a CESP or complete during an agreed upon timeframe (3-6 months) upon hire
- Demonstrated skills in salesmanship and marketing.
- Basic knowledge of computer operations, and Microsoft software applications including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.
- Must have reliable transportation
Vocational Guidance Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Disability & Veterans.