What are the responsibilities and job description for the Disability Resource Coordinator position at Jawonio Inc?
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 Rocklands 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 employers 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.
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Education/Experience: Bachelors 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.
