What are the responsibilities and job description for the YouthBuild Employment Navigator position at Goodwill Omaha?
Department: Mission Programs
Work Location: 72nd and Ames - Benson Park Plaza
Employment Status: Full-Time
Pay range: $20-$22
Job Summary
The Job Developer is responsible for networking with private and public sector employers and businesses to develop career-building internships, placements, and retention in placements for YouthBuild participants. This position conducts regular follow up with youth who are employed and/or attending post-secondary education to ensure program performance measures are met.
Essential Duties
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education And/Or Experience
First Aid/CPR Certification required
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
Light
Lifting 20 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Walking or standing to a significant degree, involves sitting most of the time with a degree of pushing and pulling.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Moderate
Occasionally exposed to extreme atmospheric conditions (temperature, noise fumes, dust, etc.
Work Location: 72nd and Ames - Benson Park Plaza
Employment Status: Full-Time
Pay range: $20-$22
Job Summary
The Job Developer is responsible for networking with private and public sector employers and businesses to develop career-building internships, placements, and retention in placements for YouthBuild participants. This position conducts regular follow up with youth who are employed and/or attending post-secondary education to ensure program performance measures are met.
Essential Duties
- Through networking and personal contacts this position develops relationships with local employers, businesses and post-secondary representatives to identify potential employment or academic opportunities for youth exiting the program.
- Monitors and coaches youth placed in jobs or internships, as necessary, and reports progress to the YouthBuild team.
- Monitor placement and retention rate of those individuals who are placed into jobs.
- Maintain a good understanding of the services provided to participants during the time they have exited and looking for employment.
- Track data of those individuals working to ensure accurate date is collected for Department of Labor reports.
- Develop career building internship/apprenticeship opportunities for youth seeking career pathways that will lead to self-sufficiency.
- Create partnership opportunities with local unions.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to establish rapport and relate sensitively to a multiracial/multicultural group.
- Coordinates with YouthBuild staff in evaluating the overall job readiness of youth who are ready for employment.
- Provide follow up services and maintain regular monthly contact with youth who are employed or attending post-secondary institutions.
- Conduct job readiness classes that will provide support to those who are preparing for work or are already employed.
- Maintain positive relationships with job site managers and aggressively mediates potential problems.
- Work with employers to maximize participant employment retention and success by providing assessment and mediation services to employer/employee as part of the job placement procedure.
- Enter and maintain case notes in Apricot of employment/retention and other placement efforts for individuals with whom this position works.
- Meet or exceed performance measures as defined by Department of Labor standards.
- Meet or exceed performance expectations as defined in the Program Evaluation efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction measures.
- Ensure that participant files/records are maintained in an organized and legible manner in accordance with P&P CARF requirements.
- Meet or exceed the attendance expectations for this position.
- Actively maintain a safe, healthy, and positive environment that promotes the physical and emotional well-being of employees, customers, and participants.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Personally participate in ongoing professional growth, education and development as well as supporting others in their efforts to develop.
- Working relationship with supervisor and co-workers.
- Must demonstrate self-initiative.
- Must have the ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
- Must possess a thorough understanding of programming needs of participants.
- Must have excellent verbal communication skills.
- Educate customers and the community about the mission and vision of the organization.
- Demonstrate the Goodwill core values through actions and words.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education And/Or Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree is preferred - Experience may be substituted for degree.
- Three (3) or more years of job development/placement working with a wide variety of employers preferred.
- Two (2) or more years’ experience working with young adults in a vocational and/or educational setting preferred.
First Aid/CPR Certification required
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- Must have strong written communication and organizational skills
- Must be able to identify community resources and make appropriate recommendations.
- Must possess a thorough understanding of programming needs of individuals in this program.
- Must be able to travel throughout the Omaha metro area.
Light
Lifting 20 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Walking or standing to a significant degree, involves sitting most of the time with a degree of pushing and pulling.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Moderate
Occasionally exposed to extreme atmospheric conditions (temperature, noise fumes, dust, etc.
Salary : $20 - $22
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