The CARE program’s goal is for Columbia’s youth to be ready to enter the workforce and become productive, self-sufficient citizens. Since 1982, the CARE program has provided comprehensive services for Columbia’s 14- to 20-year-old youth that include:

• Job readiness training
• Paid real-world hands-on work experience
• Mentoring
• Career exploration

CARE employment support workers may work between five and 28 hours per week. Employment support worker schedules are flexible with weekday daytime and early evening hours available. Employment support workers can work around most other schedules.
Duties include:

• Answering telephones
• Greeting the public
• Assisting applicants with online applications, making resumes and cover letters, obtaining letters of recommendation, and practice interviewing
• Scheduling interviews
• Co-interviewing (with another interviewer) and scoring interviews
• Assisting trainees with hiring paperwork
• Assisting with trainings
• Assisting with orientations
• Assisting with work site placement
• Providing support for work site supervisors and trainees as needed
• Entering trainees’ time into financial computer program
• Scoring surveys, compiling survey results, compiling pre-test/post-test results, and assisting with the assembling of the annual report
• Recruiting new work sites for the next summer

Applicants for this position must:

• be at least 18 years of age
• be a high school graduate (or equivalent)
• be organized
• have accurate record keeping skills
• have excellent attention to detail skills
• be able to follow directions and meet deadlines
• have excellent customer service/customer relation skills
• have strong communication skills
• be responsible and reliable
• have a strong work ethic
• have a positive attitude
• be able to focus in a small office with lots of distractions
• be an exemplary role model for youth
• be able to help motivate youth
• be able to exercise sound judgment and decision making in complex situations
• have experience working with “at-risk” teens (preferred; not required)
• have completed college coursework in Human Resources, Social Work, Community Services, Human Development/Family Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Education, or a related field (preferred; not required)

None.

$14.00 per hour

Yes

12/31/2024

multiple

Individuals needing accommodation to apply may call 573.874.7235
TTY: 711 (MO RELAY)
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA IS A MERIT, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: MALE / FEMALE
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA REQUIRES PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TESTING
The City of Columbia participates in the federal E-Verify work authorization program

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as application review will begin immediately. Hiring decisions will be made as applications are received and all the way until June 1 or until all of the available positions have been filled.
Applicants should send an email from to Ron.Schmidt@CoMo.gov as soon as they submit their application to receive further instructions.
Example Email: “Hello. My name is Jane Doe. I have submitted my online application for a CARE employment support worker position and am ready to receive further instructions. Thank you."
If applicants do not send an email to Ron.Schmidt@CoMo.gov as soon as they submit their application, they will not receive further instructions and they will no longer be under consideration for a CARE employment support worker job.
Temporary/Seasonal employees do not qualify for sick, holiday or vacation pay. Pay checks are issued bi-weekly.

Part Time