Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
- Conduct weekly Training Orientations via Webex or in-person to job seekers interested in training.
- Review client background to determine eligibility as per funding source requirements.
- Provide clients with assistance in formulating an Employability Development Plan/Individual Service Strategy to improve the client’s chance of gaining paid employment.
- Counsel clients on employability skills, job search skills, and occupational and career choices to promote self-insight.
- Refer clients to supportive services as necessary.
- Collect and submit eligibility documentation to ETS Management Information Systems Unit.
- Coordinate with other staff members, community agencies, training institutions, and OJT employers in implementing the client’s Employability Development Plan/ Individual Service Strategy.
- Review and collect client timesheets for appropriate signatures and approve hours.
- Maintain frequent contact with an active caseload to ensure successful client progress through training and job search to unsubsidized employment.
- Provide follow-up assistance as required.
- Data enter all information as required for performance into NJDOL and ETS database systems.
- Complete and submit weekly, monthly, and other reports as needed.
- Maintain electronic and paper files on all clients, ensuring confidential, thorough, and accurate documentation of all information.
- Conduct recruitment activities such as participating in career and job fairs, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN), Response Team Sessions (lay-off meetings), and other outreach activities as may arise from time to time.
- Represent the Agency at meetings and functions as assigned.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s Degree and/or Master’s Degree in social work, counseling, psychology, education.
- Minimum 1-2 years’ experience social/human services experience. Government/non-profit work experience is a plus.
- Valid Driver’s License. Position may require the use of one’s vehicle.
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
- High level of proficiency using all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Knowledge of video conferencing and electronic signature platforms. Comfortable with learning new technology.
- Ability to relate to people of various ethnicities, social and economic backgrounds.
- Coaching, counseling, and training skills, including presentations to a variety of audiences.
- Knowledge of appropriate work behavior and ability to model behaviors to participants.
- A high degree of flexibility and ability to problem-solve.
- Are an organized self-starter who is comfortable managing time, priorities and is eager to learn.
- Knowledge of Federal and State employment, education, training laws, wages, labor laws, disability, and Unemployment Insurance laws is a plus.
- Bi-lingual in Spanish preferred.
Job Tags
Full time, Work experience placement, Work at office