The Job Connector will offer workforce development support services and resources to recently housed individuals through CRCD’s Vernon-Central/LATTC WorkSource Center. The Job Connector will assist up to 25 individuals who self-identify as ready to pursue employment, education, or training.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Encourage and promote partnership working. Liaise with a range of statutory, voluntary, and public, private, and community-based agencies to improve participants’ access to services and maximize their options for employment, education, and training opportunities for program participants.
• Work in partnership to identify potential participants who self-identify that they are ready to work. Build and maintain effective working relationships with appropriate referral agencies to identify areas of need and people facing barriers to work, learning or volunteering.
• Establish needs of each individual participant. Conduct confidential, one to one interviews offering information and/or guidance, as appropriate, on the range of work and learning opportunities available locally.
• Enable participants to develop the opportunity to exercise individual choice and the pursuit of their own options for work and learning and support them in these choices.
• Assist participants to access and attend appropriate work and/or learning opportunities and relevant community activities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Associates degree and/or 1-2 years’ experience or related work
• Experience working with individuals experiencing homelessness and housing instability
• Prior experience in providing career coaching/case management /job development services within workforce development, social service, or non-profit organizations
• Experience, comfort, and desire to work with various vulnerable populations such as re-entry, homeless, veterans, disabled, low-income, etc.

SALARY $53,040 annually, non-exempt

REPORTS TO: Business and Employment Manager