Career Coach

• Establish a positive and trusting rapport with participants as well as provide motivation, encouragement and promote consistent program participation. Assist individual participants with creating for themselves an individual and/or family Self-Sufficiency Plan (SSP) based on the principles of CalWORKs 2.0. Complete the Online CalWORKs Appraisal Tool (OCAT) for newly enrolled participants as needed. OCAT includes a comprehensive screening for barrier identification and a detailed explanation of available services.
• Recommend and develop training plans for participants, refers participants to appropriate training opportunities, and collect timesheets, employment verification letters, and pay stubs as proof of participants' job placement. Perform necessary post-placement and post-exit to ensure participant’s job retention longevity.
• Lead, coach, and conduct orientation sessions, career assessments, workshops, job search, interview, one-on-one or small group counseling; develop resume, cover letter, and individual employment plans; identifies participant needs to determine appropriate job interest and job match to secure job placement.

• Track participant’s attendance, input data, update daily log and job activities into internal database system CalSAWS (County web-based system); maintain record of new enrollments; navigate the database to access and audit participant’s roster and complete other program activities such as orientation, Job Club, and other CPET activities tracking sheets.
• Provide a variety of Work Experience and Community Service (WEN/CS) Program activities at number of approved worksites within their assigned region. Understand the WEN/CS worksites that are designed to help CalWORKs participants who have limited educational experiences, possess Limited-English communication abilities, have sporadic employment histories or limited marketable skills to learn new job skills or to upgrade their current job skills in a non-paid or subsidized paid work position while receiving their cash aid assistance.
• Ensure that all participants in Unpaid Work Experience (UWEN) and Paid Work Experience (PWEN) receive a minimum hourly wage for the hours they work at their assigned worksite and receive a scheduled bi-weekly payroll check.
• Coordinate an in-person meeting with the participant and worksite supervisor at the host site to discuss the participant’s progress and monitor worksites to ensure all participants are in fact performing assignments/activities in accordance with the worksite agreements.
• Must attend training and obtain certification as required by program or agency and maintain ongoing training to keep the certifications up-to-date. Build trust, maintain good relationship, and network with partners and conduct survey with participants following placement to ensure job stability. Prepares program monthly activity and reports to the CPET Site Supervisor.

Be knowledgeable of the agency’s mission, vision, core values, and strategic plan. Join different agency initiatives to improve program and service quality and to help accomplish the agency strategic plan’s goals and objectives, and other duties as assigned by Site Supervisor or Program Manager