Job Description

Job Summary:

The Construction Career Coach supports young adults, ages 18-25, in developing and reaching their education and employment goals.

Job Duties:

The POIC Work Opportunities Training department aims to support underserved youth on a path to self-sufficiency and economic success by providing opportunities for skill building, training, and work experience. Career Coaches work in partnership with POIC community-based programs to address barriers youth and young adults face to employment and educational attainment. POIC employment contracts are complex and tied to long-term outcomes for young adults. As such, it is critical that POIC Career Coaches possess the ability to connect with participants on a personal level and maintain meticulous records and data. The following are the job responsibilities: 

• Conducts outreach, recruits, enrolls, and maintains a caseload of up to 40 clients, focusing on people ages 18-25. 
• Coordinates outreach, develops relationships with local employers, and creates mechanisms for clients to access continuing education or job placement opportunities.
• Plans and facilitates job readiness, employment skills, and financial literacy lessons.
• Conducts youth orientations and collects/manages essential forms and paperwork.
• Build relationships with assigned people and potentially the partner agencies affiliated with the people assigned. 
• Collaborates with the Work Opportunities Training (WOT) team and other POIC departments to deliver services across program sites. 
• Collaborates with employer partners to develop opportunities for clients of diverse skill levels to obtain work experience.
• Offers support services, including clothing and transportation necessary for position requirements and to support successful job completions. 
• Documents all client interaction, progress, participation, and data in a workforce development-specific database system daily.
• Maintains detailed, organized, and updated files in compliance with local and federal government contractors
• Research promising practices for serving low-income clients and approaches to alleviating poverty to ensure that the program model is dynamic and responsive to client needs. 
• Works with POIC community-based programs to address barriers to sustainable employment. 
• Maintains punctual, regular, and predictable attendance.
• Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation. 
• Respectfully takes direction from supervisor. 
• Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Ability to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to the safety or health of employees or others.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must satisfactorily perform each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.

Experience/Education:
High School diploma or GED required.

What We Offer:
POIC offers a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone has the opportunity to grow. Our compensation and benefits package represents our commitment to employee health and financial wellness.

• Generous vacation/PTO policy.
• Employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• Employer-paid Life and Long Term Disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
• 403(b) Retirement Plan option.
• Twelve paid holidays per year.
• Professional growth and advancement opportunities.

Application Instructions

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit:

• Why you are interested in working for POIC?
• How do your skills and experience relate to this position?
• What you can contribute to our organization and the youth we serve.
• Resume.

Please send your Personal Statement and Resume to jobs@ portlandoic .org with the job title in the subject line. 

Applicants who do not submit a Personal Statement that includes the requested information may be disqualified from consideration for the position.

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