Workforce Career Coach

Overview
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Career Coach to support individuals in achieving their employment goals. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in workforce development and a passion for mentoring individuals. As a Career Coach, you will provide guidance, resources, and support to help clients navigate their career paths and enhance their employability.

Contract to hire, 100% on-site, Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm, mileage reimbursement travel within the region.

$18.42/hour starting pay (90-days training/contract period) to

$20.00/hour conversion to direct hire (after 90-days based on performance)

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, and holiday pay

Career Coach Job Descriptions

Essential Job Responsibilities:

· 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 find 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 participants 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

Qualifications/Education:

• Associate’s degree from an accredited university or college
• 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
• Frequent local travel required.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.42 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $20