Career Coach - Kalamazoo

POSTING DATE: Feb. 18, 2025

POSITION SUMMARY

Michigan Works! Southwest is seeking a talented Career Coach. The Career Coach provides career
and case management services to job seeker customers within the designated service area of
Michigan Works! Southwest. They assist job seekers in learning skills necessary to obtain permanent
employment while also providing assistance with job search activities, employment and community
service placement, training opportunities, and workshop facilitation. The Career Coach collaborates
with other community agencies and partners to facilitate support services for job seekers as needed.
They are also responsible for maintaining participant case files and completing required
documentation in a timely and accurate manner.

This is a full-time non-exempt position, 37.5 hours per week, requiring in-office/on-site work at the
Kalamazoo County Michigan Works! Southwest Service Center. Occasional travel within the
Michigan Works! Southwest four-county service area is required.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

A bachelor’s degree or a minimum of three years of relevant work experience is required. To thrive in
this role, experience in the employment field, non-profit sector, or with case management is
preferred. Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Outlook,
Word, Excel) is required.

Reliable transportation is required for occasional travel within the four-county service area of
Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Branch, and St. Joseph counties.

WAGES & BENEFITS

This position offers a starting salary of $40,000 annually, as well as a generous benefit package.
Offered benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, short-term extended medical leave,
long-term disability, parental leave, and a retirement plan.

WHO WE ARE

Michigan Works! Southwest strives to build connections between job seekers looking to grow their
careers and employers seeking quality candidates with the necessary job skills. This is accomplished
by staying abreast of employment trends and maintaining critical relationships with community
partners to ensure connections are made between employers, educators, trainers, and employees.
Learn more at our website: https://www.michiganworkssouthwest.org/

Michigan Works! Southwest is within the Center for Workforce Innovation and Solutions, a
division of the Upjohn Institute, and is committed to pioneering best practices in workforce
development through program development, operation, and evaluation, striving to ensure successful
outcomes for job seekers, employers, and communities.

Since 1932, the Upjohn Institute has functioned as one of the world’s leading independent, non-
partisan, and non-profit labor economics research organizations, seeking to research the causes and
effects of unemployment and to devise ways and means of alleviating hardships caused by
unemployment.

All applicants and participants of the Michigan Works! Southwest Workforce Development Programs
will be provided equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from all programs, activities, and
services without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, marital status,
disability, arrest record, or political affiliation or belief, or citizenship/status as a lawfully admitted
immigrant authorized to work in the United States, or other non-merit factors.

The Upjohn Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, is committed to equal treatment
of employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, marital status, age height, weight, national origin, veteran or disability status in hiring,
promotion, training and development, compensation, transfer, termination, disciplinary action, and
all other personnel actions and Institute related functions and activities.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit resume and letter of interest via really by clicking here.