What are the responsibilities and job description for the Disability Resource Coordinator position at Jawonio?
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Description
Purpose: The Disability Resource Coordinator will align his/her scope of work with Jawonio’s mission, while incorporating Jawonio’s Core Values as the guiding principle for all work activities.
Job Summary: This position will focus on identifying and leveraging disability related resources and partners to support collaboration around employment for individuals with disabilities and connecting local businesses to support these efforts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
Other duties may be assigned.
- Increase the capacity of the Career Center and surrounding career pathways programs to serve individuals with disabilities and ensure people with disabilities have access to different programs and services in existing career pathways programs
- Identify training and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities in the community using community resources and partners
- Develop and implement workshops/training with local businesses, employers, Workforce Development Board and Rockland County Career Center on ADA, Disability etiquette, identifying invisible disabilities, and the provision of reasonable accommodations, with a special focus on employing individuals in Rockland’s priority sectors, provide a minimum of two training opportunities per quarter
- Train Rockland County Workforce Development Board (RWDB) members, Rockland County Career Center staff, businesses, Rockland Community College stakeholders, and other training providers on such topics as employer’s rights and obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its subsequent statutes and regulations, Ticket to Work (TTW), workplace accommodations, assistive technology, assessments, and employer hiring tax credits.
- Obtain and maintain a credential to provide benefits advisement and work incentive counseling to job seekers in receipt of Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits (e.g., Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income (SSI))
- Helping to expand the workforce development system's participation as an Employment Network (EN) under the TTW Program, including the assignment of appropriate Tickets to the Career Center under the New York Employment Services System (NYESS) Administrative Employment Network (AEN).
- Connect individuals with disabilities with a variety of community-based organizations that can assist with job placement and career training opportunities
- Develop sustainable relationships with business owners and business groups throughout Rockland County
- Serve as a resource to disabled individuals interested in pursuing entrepreneurship, career readiness and financial literacy training and workshops
- Confidentiality: Ability to maintain the strictest confidentiality of all information accessed for data entry, filing, scanning or other purposes. Will be required to take annual confidentiality and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability) training.
Qualifications
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience: Bachelor’s Degree (Masters preferred) in Human Services, Special Education, Vocational Rehabilitation, or Social Work. Three to five years of experience working with underserved adults and/or youths, (e.g., individuals with disabilities, individuals with involvement in the criminal justice system, disadvantaged youth, low-income individuals, English language learners) in career development.
Language Ability: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
Math Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Computer Skills: Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Certificates and Licenses: None
Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Interrelationships: Regular, routine contacts with people supported in the residence, employees, vendors, delivery people and visitors.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Required bending, stooping, fine motor skills on regular to continual basis. Regular lifting, pushing, and pulling of persons supported.
Additional Requirements:
- A valid NY State Driver’s License and ability to drive and driving record acceptable for agency insurance coverage are preferred.
- Remain current in all OMH, OPWDD and agency required trainings.
- Candidates must be cleared and maintain acceptable record under the NYS OMH and OPWDD mandated criminal background check process.
- Must be clear and maintain an acceptable record under the Medicaid Fraud & Abuse clearance process.
- Excellent presentation & facilitation skills. Must have ability to work with diverse populations including people with disabilities
- Knowledge of SSA work incentives, and how work affects government benefits. Having credentials to provide work incentive counseling is preferred.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws, policy and procedures relating to equal opportunity and non-discrimination employment of individuals with disabilities and other protected classes
- Ability to engage and build relationships with the community
- Maintain strong work ethic and strict adherence to code of ethics, standards of conduct and confidentiality requirements
- Strong knowledge of job search processes (e.g., resume/cover letter writing, interviewing skills, networking) and how to teach them to job seekers; and
- Computer and digital literacy with a strong ability to conduct remote meetings.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
Salary : $29 - $31
