The posting
Company Description
We help job seekers and career changers prepare for and advance in careers with a focus on sustainable, high-growth, high-demand industries. Our committed and well-trained workforce professionals deliver comprehensive workforce solutions at integrated career centers, sector-focused centers and community, and partner sites.
Job Description
- Responsible for developing, building and maintaining relationships with military installations, military spouse programs and other community partners. Provide employment assistance to military spouses who are experiencing challenges or who need to obtain new skills to compete in the job market.
- Manages a caseload of participants and provides counseling and mentoring.
- Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills, and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions.
- Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness.
- Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals.
- Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals.
- Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts.
- Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued.
- Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency.
- Facilitates customer access to training, education, and to employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level.
- Display the ability to work with a variety of cultures, languages, educational and economic backgrounds in a classroom setting.
- Always coordinate individual instruction in an orderly and professional manner.
- Assist job seekers in registering in the state's online job matching site and provide technical assistance in using the job matching system to obtain optimum results.
- Use the Internet, career exploration and resume software as well as other software and resource materials to assist customers with their job search efforts.
- Provide customers with information and referrals to the labor market, local workforce system programs, education and training activities.
- Disseminate information about available services.
- May also give explanation of service requirements, data gathering, customer eligibility assessment and case management.
- Must have general skills with personal computers and technology.
- Ensure that individual participants complete and turn in assignments as scheduled.
- Conduct follow-up outreach to students not engaged in classroom activities and document efforts in program issues systems.
- Maintain student's assessments in files and student database.
- Work well in teams, business customers and other staff.
- Able to communicate effectively to both oral and written.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in social work, human services, or related field strongly preferred.
- Two years of full-time qualifying experience in gathering information, interviewing, or counseling, in direct social work, or in workforce development issues and programs.
- Must be able to access Sheppard Air Force Base on an on-going basis.
- Must be able to pass a criminal history check and drug screen.
- Must have a valid driver's license and maintain a satisfactory motor vehicle record and minimum requirements of insurability as required by law.
- Local travel required with mileage reimbursed.
Additional Information
All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
This is not a remote position.
Equus Workforce Solutions is a leading provider of workforce development services in North America. With a dedicated and passionate team, Equus puts the industry’s best practices to work by focusing on the development, design, and delivery of demand-driven workforce solutions.
When you join Equus, you can expect extensive learning opportunities and networking programs. But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others.
APM, including Equus Workforce Solutions, Ross Innovative Employment Solutions, Dynamic Workforce Solutions, DESI, AGELIC, and Grant Associates, is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
APM is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application, interview, or selection process, please contact [email protected].
