What are the responsibilities and job description for the Career Coach - Consruction Program position at POIC & RAHS?
Job Summary:
The Construction Career Coach supports young adults, ages 18-25, in developing and reaching their education and employment goals.
Job Duties:
The POIC Work Opportunities Training department aims to support underserved youth on a path to self-sufficiency and economic success by providing opportunities for skill building, training, and work experience. Career Coaches work in partnership with POIC community-based programs to address barriers youth and young adults face to employment and educational attainment. POIC employment contracts are complex and tied to long-term outcomes for young adults. As such, it is critical that POIC Career Coaches possess the ability to connect with participants on a personal level and maintain meticulous records and data.
The following are the job responsibilities:
The POIC Work Opportunities Training department aims to support underserved youth on a path to self-sufficiency and economic success by providing opportunities for skill building, training, and work experience. Career Coaches work in partnership with POIC community-based programs to address barriers youth and young adults face to employment and educational attainment. POIC employment contracts are complex and tied to long-term outcomes for young adults. As such, it is critical that POIC Career Coaches possess the ability to connect with participants on a personal level and maintain meticulous records and data.
The following are the job responsibilities:
- Conducts outreach, recruits, enrolls, and maintains a caseload of up to 40 clients, focusing on people ages 18-25.
- Coordinates outreach, develops relationships with local employers and creates mechanisms for clients to access continuing education or job placement opportunities.
- Plans and facilitates job readiness, employment skills, and financial literacy lessons.
- Conducts youth orientations and collecting/managing essential forms and paperwork.
- Buildings relationships with assigned people and potentially the partner agencies affiliated with the people assigned.
- Collaborates with the Work Opportunities Training (WOT) team and other POIC departments to deliver services across program sites.
- Collaborates with employer partners to develop opportunities for clients of diverse skill levels to obtain work experience.
- Offers support services, including clothing and transportation necessary for position requirements and to support successful job completions.
- Documents all client interaction, progress, participation, and data in a workforce development-specific database system daily.
- Maintains detailed, organized, and updated files in compliance with local and federal government contractors.
- Research promising practices for serving low-income clients and approaches to alleviating poverty to ensure that the program model is dynamic and responsive to client needs.
- Works with POIC community-based programs to address barriers to sustainable employment.
- Maintains punctual, regular, and predictable attendance.
- Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation.
- Respectfully takes direction from supervisor.
- Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to the safety or health of employees or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.
Experience/Education:
- High School diploma or GED required.
What We Offer:
POIC offers a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone has the opportunity to grow. Our compensation and benefits package represents our commitment to employee health and financial wellness.
- Generous vacation/PTO policy.
- Employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
- Employer-paid Life and Long Term Disability insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
- 403(b) Retirement Plan option.
- Twelve paid holidays per year.
- Professional growth and advancement opportunities.
Application Instructions:
To be considered for this opportunity, please submit:
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Personal Statement that includes:
- Why you are interested in working for POIC.
- How your skills and experience relate to this position.
- What you can contribute to our organization and the youth we serve.
- Resume.
Please send your Personal Statement and Resume to jobs@portlandoic.org with the job title in the subject line.
Applicants who do not submit a Personal Statement that includes the requested information may be disqualified from consideration for the position.
