Employment Specialist

Job Description:

Employment-focused, data-driven non-profit for court-involved citizens currently seeking an Employment Specialist in Northern-Central New Jersey. Employment Specialist shall interview court-involved persons to determine their specific employment, training, and vocational needs and conduct training workshops for on-site staff as necessary to familiarize them with all facets of the requirements for obtaining employment for the benefit of court-involved persons. Employment Specialist actively develops and maintains relationships with business and industry organizations to ensure that employment programming is current and relevant to the current labor market and to promote employment placement. This is a full-time salaried position. The starting salary is $45,000. Salary Negotiable.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate multiple workshops with court-involved program participants
• Communicate effectively with interdisciplinary teams regarding psychosocial or institutional barriers to employment
• Maintain ongoing communication with both employers and employees to obtain and verify proof of employment to ensure accurate reporting of positive outcomes
• Help participants set and meet vocational or educational goals, including partializing these goals into more manageable steps
• Continuously enter all required data in a timely and precise manner, including obtaining and entering paystub data

Required Qualifications:

• Experience providing direct services to a social service agency
• Minimum of (1) year experience in providing job search/job retention services
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Excel
• Minimum of (2) years experience locating jobs for court-involved individuals or the general public
• Four-year bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual (Spanish)
• Experience working with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development programs

About NJRC

The New Jersey Reentry Corporation (NJRC) is committed to providing critically needed services to court-involved individuals to empower them to achieve healthy self-sufficiency, thereby reducing recidivism and fostering safer communities. Working with private employers and public agencies, the NJRC strives to maximize the training and employment of this discrete population.

With a statewide network of reentry sites in Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Ocean, Union, Bergen, Middlesex, and Monmouth Counties, the NJRC aims to provide clients with addiction treatment, structured sober housing, job training and employment, linkage to legal services and healthcare, and spiritual mentoring. After orientation, clients traditionally receive case management services for a six- to nine-month period.