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Employment Specialist

Union Station Homeless Services
Altadena, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/20/2025

TITLE: Employment Specialist

DEPARTMENT: Program

REPORTS TO: Manager, Employment Services

Employment Status: Full Time

Reg. Hours Worked: 40 / Week, Non-Exempt


JOB SUMMARY:

The Employment Specialist assists candidates with employment barriers in securing stable

employment. The Employment Specialist initiates and maintains ongoing personal contacts with a

variety of business and industry representatives and job placement/training agencies to promote

participant placement; makes cold calls to potential employers; and provides job placement and

retention services.


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE, but are not limited to the following:

  • Meet established job placement and retention goals as contractually required.
  • Connect candidates with sustainable job opportunities and placements, vocational training, job retention support, job development (liaising with employers as appropriate), with focus on employment and income resource connections.
  • Assist with workshops designed to enhance career development.
  • Develop an individualized Employment Action Plan (EAP) with each candidate served
  • Develop resumes, cover letters, and scripts for clients.
  • Identify potential employers and develop employment opportunities for program participants by committing 5-7 hours per week on developing new sites.
  • Contact employers and collect information detailing qualifications and work site requirements to ensure success on the job.
  • Refer qualified applicants to employers and arrange interviews
  • Transport participants to interviews, job fairs, and other organizations when necessary.
  • Consult with job sites to identify and modify barriers, negotiate job carving, analyze sites and other job accommodations.
  • Provide extra needed assistance and understanding performance expectations and compensation.
  • Be a liaison between employers and new employees; providing help to fine tune performance issues and concerns, and coordinate any additional services required.
  • Connect candidates with basic education and vocational training, where appropriate, as well as unsubsidized and subsidized employment opportunities.
  • Maintain relationships with employers, local job resources, vocational training schools, to ensure effective employment linkage services and access to resources.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of and deep understanding of the three major systems serving jobseekers experiencing homelessness – homeless services, public social services, and workforce development, including the Coordinated Entry System (CES), as well as best practices in homeless services, and regional resources.
  • Prepare documentation, forms and reports related to placement activities; track participant activity and progress data in a timely manner
  • Attend and participate in team meetings, staff training sessions and all-staff meetings as scheduled.
  • Keep calendar updated with events and activities; share calendar with Manager
  • Documents services and completes data entry into LA CoC Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) database.
  • Other duties as assigned by Manager.


PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

  • Work indoors in a temperature controlled environment with occasional exposure to outdoor weather and driving conditions. Stand and sit for long periods of time; move and walk to various locations; climb, stoop, kneel, reach, pull, push, bend, twist, and occasionally lift and or move objects.
  • See, hear and speak clearly in order to give and receive information and instructions.
  • Complex reading and writing skills, memorization skills, analytical / perceptive comprehensive capabilities.
  • Good judgment and decision-making capability.
  • Ability to interact effectively with other employees, clients, customers, and members of the public.
  • Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time to meet deadlines and perform duties under time constraints.
  • Ability to adapt to changing work demands.
  • Ability to perform arithmetic functions, and gather, analyze, synthesize, and classify information.
  • Requires use of computers for long periods of time.
  • Travel to off-site locations.
  • Detailed oriented and organized.
  • Ability to work in an ‘open address’ environment


EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

Minimum Qualifications

  • Option I: Minimum of one year of experience in employment services for persons who are disabled and/or homeless.
  • Option II: One year of experience in human or social services case management.
  • Option III:Successful demonstration of required skills through current or past USHS employment may be considered in lieu of the standard required years of experience.

Desirable

  • BA degree in a related field strongly preferred


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