OACTS Manager

• OA/CTS Director Summary of Position Function:

As the OA/CTS Director at Iroquois Job Corps, you are pivotal in steering the direction of our outreach, admissions, and career transition services. Your expertise ensures that we deliver exceptional services while maintaining impeccable quality standards. Your leadership will be integral in developing strategic plans, enhancing departmental processes, and fostering continuous growth and improvement.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Outreach and Admissions:
  • Supervises Outreach and Admissions programs and operations.
  • Ensures Admission goals are monitored and met.
  • Actively participate in the folder review process for student/employee applicants
  • Assist in the process of student accommodations to ensure a plan is implemented prior to arrival at the center.
  • Assist in coordinating the Community Relations activities and related committees
• Student Retention
  • Works closely with the Counseling Department, Career Preparation and Student Human Resources staff on retention strategies.
  • Develop retention strategies to assist the Center’s Admissions Counselors (AC) to ensure that the students are retained and graduate from the program.
• Career Transition Services
  • Supervises Career Transition Services programs and operations
  • To ensure that Career Transition Services goals are monitored and met
  • Develop and implement a Career Transition Readiness curriculum
  • Work closely with CTS staff to find internal ways to improve FE’s (former enrollees) and Graduate Placement outcomes
  • Foster strategic employer relationships, expanding job opportunities for students
• Staff Oversight and Development
  • Ensure staff have adequate training to complete key areas of responsibilities.
  • Provide documented training to staff.
  • Provide Cross-training for department employees.
  • Coordinate staff meetings
  • Provide timely staff evaluations
• Other
  • Monitors budget and related areas for department and maintains spending limits.
  • Assists in the coordination and communication between departments in the coordination of procedures necessary for efficiency of operations.
  • Acts as a trusted advisor to the Center Director and is a member of the senior leadership team.
  • Performs all other duties assigned

Skills/Competencies

• Sound working knowledge of counseling techniques
• Demonstrated skills in identifying and evaluating the emotional needs of young adults
• Ability to quickly learn Job Corps methodologies
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Meticulous documentation/recording skills and attention to detail; excellent time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others in a wide variety of circumstances related to student services
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong analytical skills in interpreting data related to student programming
• Computer literate with emphasis on Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human services, psychology, counseling, education, social science, business, communications, or closely related field, and two years related supervisory experience.
Associate’s degree in human services, psychology, counseling, education, social science, business, communications, or closely related field, and four years related supervisory experience

• What is Job Corps? It is the country's most extensive nationwide residential career training program and has been operating for over 50 years. The program helps eligible young people ages 16 through 24 complete their high school education, trains them for meaningful careers, and assists them with obtaining employment. Job Corps has trained and educated over two million individuals since 1964.Iroquois Job Corps offers training in the medical trades (Certified Nursing Assistant and Certified Medical Assistant), Bricklaying, Carpentry, Electrical and Paint.
  Benefits include Low cost insurance for Medical Coverage (Employee only) and reduced rates for Family Coverages, and optional supplemental insurance plans.
  Paid vacation and sick (2 weeks each), 12 Paid Holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas are two-day holidays), Short Term Disability, 401K Retirement Plan, Employee Assistance Plan, free access to our Weight Room and Cardio Rooms, low-cost meals daily from our dining hall ($2.00 per meal)
• Iroquois Job Corps provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related condition), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), genetic predisposition or carrier status, military or veteran status, familial status, status a victim of domestic violence, or any other status protected by law.