WIOA Career Advisor

Halifax Community College; Weldon (NC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Halifax Community College seeks a Grant Funded WIOA Career Advisor to assist customers with employment and training activities, including eligibility, enrollment, advising, and case management. You will help enroll customers into training, perform work readiness assessments, and coordinate with employers and training opportunities.

The position involves documenting eligibility, scheduling follow-ups, and maintaining participant contact for ongoing support.

Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in a relevant discipline is required.
• Two years' work experience in higher education, counseling, case management, social work, or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Register customers in the workforce tracking system and ensure co-enrollment in Wagner-Peyser and WIOA programs.
• Document Adults and Dislocated Workers per state/local guidelines to determine program eligibility.
• Schedule follow-up visits and collect information for employment services or training.
• Perform work readiness assessments to determine work readiness for employment.
• Review employer job orders and refer qualified applicants based on employer standards.
• Review applicant information to ensure files support program eligibility for training and support services.
• Maintain contact with participants in training for ongoing case management and career advisement.
• Coordinate and enroll participants into available training opportunities.
• Chronicle services provided and outcomes.
• Conduct interviews, coaching, and use labor market information and recruiting skills to connect job seekers to employers.

Education

Associate's Degree in a relevant discipline

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

Grant Funded Position

The WIOA Career Advisor will assist customers in their employment and training activities. Services include but are not limited to, job search activities, eligibility determination and enrollment for Wagner Peyser and/or Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act programs, career advising, case management, referring customers to additional resources, enrolling customers into training, assisting customers with their individual employment plans, and employment search activities.

1. The Career Advisor registers customers in the workforce tracking system by collecting their basic information and ensuring that they are co-enrolled as appropriate in Wagner-Peyser and Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act programs.
2. They follow all state and local guidelines for documenting Adults and Dislocated Workers when obtaining personal information needed to determine eligibility for programs.
3. The Career Advisor will schedule follow-up visits and collect any information from relevant sources for assisting customers in using employment services or training.
4. Time will be spent on performing work readiness assessments on referrals to determine their work readiness to appropriately apply for and attain employment.
5. Additional time will be spent reviewing employer job orders and referring qualified job applicants to employers based on the defined standards set by employers.
6. Time will be spent on reviewing an applicant's information to ensure that the files are complete to support program eligibility before referring them to training, and for support services.
7. The Career Advisor will maintain contact with all assigned participants in training to provide on-going case management, career advisement, and/or coaching.
8. Coordination and enrollment into training opportunities that exist.
9. They will chronicle the types of services a customer receives and outcomes as a result of those services.
10. The Career Advisor will schedule follow-up visits, and collect any information from relevant sources for assisting customers in using employment services or training.
11. Time will be spent on performing work readiness assessments on referrals to determine their work readiness to appropriately apply for and attain employment. Additional time will be spent reviewing employer job orders and referring qualified job applicants to employers based on the defined standards set by employers.
12. This work should be executed by utilizing interviewing, coaching/ training techniques, labor market information, and recruiting skills to match and connect job seekers to employers.

Required

• Associate's Degree in a relevant discipline.
• Two years' work experience in higher education, counseling, case management, social work, or related field required.

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline.
• Knowledge of the current Training Point ISD program system.