What are the responsibilities and job description for the Veteran Career Planner position at State of Iowa - Executive Branch?
Job Description
Only applicants who meet the Minimum Qualification Requirements and meet all selective requirements (listed below) will be placed on the eligible list.
Iowa Workforce Development is seeking applicants for the position of Veteran Career Planner at our Iowa Works office in Waterloo IA.
Position Description
We are hiring – and you can make a difference! We have an opportunity at Iowa Workforce Development to serve as a Veteran Career Planner. You can make a difference working with veterans seeking assistance with their employment and training goals. You will assist veterans by establishing rapport, completing assessments of their skills and background, and identifying career goals and objectives, just to name a few!
As a Veteran Career Planner, you will facilitate and document intensive services to veterans with special employment and training needs as part of an integrated office skills development team.
Intensive services are defined as comprehensive and specialized assessments of skill levels and service needs. Services may include any combination of the following services, but at a minimum, the first two are required to commence a program of intensive services.
Conduct "Bring Your A Game", Federal resume workshops, POETS, and other workshops to help offenders overcome barriers to employment. Refer all veterans to NCRC workshops and maintain accurate and timely records of veteran attendance and progress.
In this role you will conduct outreach activities and develop relationships to locate veterans who could benefit from intensive services and market the services of organizations such as Veteran Service Organizations, CBOCs, Vet Centers, Department of Corrections, homeless shelters, ESGR, WIOA partners, civic and service organizations within local communities (outreach).
Veteran Career Planner advises local office staff in providing non-SBE veterans with timely and appropriate labor exchange services. Will interview new veteran applicants with significant barriers to employment (SBEs) for service. Coordinate with Business Services Team(s) to match SBE & 18–24-year-old veterans with job opportunities and provide labor exchange services to SBE veterans leading to job placement.
Advise local non-DVOP staff to facilitate the delivery of appropriate services to veterans, periodically analyze priority services to veterans, monitor job orders received from FCJL employers to ensure veteran preference, provide reports to management summarizing monthly activity, monitor veterans
performance standards for achievement of goals and direction of veteran services efforts, and submit all required reports, success stories and follow up documentation as required on a timely basis. Participate in quarterly case review meetings when selected.
Agency Overview Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) is a state agency committed to providing employment services for individual job seekers and to connecting employers to available workers through our Iowa WORKS partnership.
IWD continually strives to improve processes and align the organization to provide effective, demand-driven products and services. IWD staff in Des Moines consists of administrative services, disability determination services, information technology, labor market information, unemployment insurance services, vocational rehabilitation services, and workforce services. The agency also maintains a statewide delivery system of Iowa WORKS Centers and satellite and expansion offices where both employers and job seeking Iowans can receive workforce assistance.
Benefits
Joining the IWD/Iowa WORKS team and becoming a State of Iowa employee comes with a range of valuable benefits, including:
Hours of Work: Monday – Friday 8:00am-4:30pm.
Our agency uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.e-verify.gov .
No applicant for employment with the Iowa Department of Workforce Development can have a current, ongoing overpayment balance with Iowa Workforce Development without a payment plan in place. Selected positions will be subject to a criminal background check.
Selectives
895 Military Veteran
A person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university;
OR
an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of full-time public contact work obtaining, analyzing and evaluating data such as job/claims interviewing, testing, referral and/or placement, sales representative, credit investigation, or related public contact work dealing with job applicants and employers in a variety of supportive clerical and outreach functions for one year of the required education with a maximum substitution of four years;
OR
employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to twelve months of full-time work as a Workforce Associate.
For additional information, please click on this link to view the job description.
Additional Qualification Requirements
Travel may be required for positions in this class. Employees must arrange transportation to and from assigned work areas.
Only applicants who meet the Minimum Qualification Requirements and meet all selective requirements (listed below) will be placed on the eligible list.
Iowa Workforce Development is seeking applicants for the position of Veteran Career Planner at our Iowa Works office in Waterloo IA.
Position Description
We are hiring – and you can make a difference! We have an opportunity at Iowa Workforce Development to serve as a Veteran Career Planner. You can make a difference working with veterans seeking assistance with their employment and training goals. You will assist veterans by establishing rapport, completing assessments of their skills and background, and identifying career goals and objectives, just to name a few!
As a Veteran Career Planner, you will facilitate and document intensive services to veterans with special employment and training needs as part of an integrated office skills development team.
Intensive services are defined as comprehensive and specialized assessments of skill levels and service needs. Services may include any combination of the following services, but at a minimum, the first two are required to commence a program of intensive services.
- Development of an individual employment plan to identify the employment goals.
- Appropriate achievement objectives and appropriate combination of services for the participant to achieve the employment goals.
- Group counseling.
- Individual counseling and career planning.
- Short-term prevocational services that may include development of learning skills, communication skills, interviewing skills, punctuality, personal maintenance skills, and professional conduct to prepare individuals for unsubsidized employment or training.
Conduct "Bring Your A Game", Federal resume workshops, POETS, and other workshops to help offenders overcome barriers to employment. Refer all veterans to NCRC workshops and maintain accurate and timely records of veteran attendance and progress.
In this role you will conduct outreach activities and develop relationships to locate veterans who could benefit from intensive services and market the services of organizations such as Veteran Service Organizations, CBOCs, Vet Centers, Department of Corrections, homeless shelters, ESGR, WIOA partners, civic and service organizations within local communities (outreach).
Veteran Career Planner advises local office staff in providing non-SBE veterans with timely and appropriate labor exchange services. Will interview new veteran applicants with significant barriers to employment (SBEs) for service. Coordinate with Business Services Team(s) to match SBE & 18–24-year-old veterans with job opportunities and provide labor exchange services to SBE veterans leading to job placement.
Advise local non-DVOP staff to facilitate the delivery of appropriate services to veterans, periodically analyze priority services to veterans, monitor job orders received from FCJL employers to ensure veteran preference, provide reports to management summarizing monthly activity, monitor veterans
performance standards for achievement of goals and direction of veteran services efforts, and submit all required reports, success stories and follow up documentation as required on a timely basis. Participate in quarterly case review meetings when selected.
Agency Overview Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) is a state agency committed to providing employment services for individual job seekers and to connecting employers to available workers through our Iowa WORKS partnership.
IWD continually strives to improve processes and align the organization to provide effective, demand-driven products and services. IWD staff in Des Moines consists of administrative services, disability determination services, information technology, labor market information, unemployment insurance services, vocational rehabilitation services, and workforce services. The agency also maintains a statewide delivery system of Iowa WORKS Centers and satellite and expansion offices where both employers and job seeking Iowans can receive workforce assistance.
Benefits
Joining the IWD/Iowa WORKS team and becoming a State of Iowa employee comes with a range of valuable benefits, including:
- Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off, including nine paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave with no cap on sick leave accrual.
- Prepare for the future with the IPERS retirement package, as well as an additional optional deferred compensation retirement plan.
- Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care.
- Free Life and Long-term Disability Insurance with the option of purchasing additional coverage.
- Employee Assistance Programs and Discount Programs for support.
Hours of Work: Monday – Friday 8:00am-4:30pm.
Our agency uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.e-verify.gov .
No applicant for employment with the Iowa Department of Workforce Development can have a current, ongoing overpayment balance with Iowa Workforce Development without a payment plan in place. Selected positions will be subject to a criminal background check.
Selectives
895 Military Veteran
A person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university;
OR
an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of full-time public contact work obtaining, analyzing and evaluating data such as job/claims interviewing, testing, referral and/or placement, sales representative, credit investigation, or related public contact work dealing with job applicants and employers in a variety of supportive clerical and outreach functions for one year of the required education with a maximum substitution of four years;
OR
employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to twelve months of full-time work as a Workforce Associate.
For additional information, please click on this link to view the job description.
Additional Qualification Requirements
Travel may be required for positions in this class. Employees must arrange transportation to and from assigned work areas.
