Employment Specialist

About the role

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Primary Location: MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE Bargaining Unit: No The Young Adult Borough Center (YABC) and Learning to Work Center at Thomas Jefferson Campus High School is an evening educational/youth development program that provide New York City high school students an alternative pathway to graduation.

Students enrolled in YABC also include young adults who chose to leave daytime classes due to circumstances such as employment or adult responsibilities. YABC offers students an opportunity to participate in a non-traditional educational program geared toward helping them prepare for a high school diploma and making critical career choices (i.e. college, employment or vocational training).

This unique program combines academic classroom instruction, tutoring, career exploration, case management, work readiness training, and subsidized internships. Students attend classes Monday through Saturday. In addition to YABC students accumulating credits toward graduation at an accelerated rate, they receive an elective credit for participating in paid internships.

Our overall goal is to provide the students with internships that provide them with the skills necessary to pursue their individual career goals. Once all of the credits toward graduation have been completed students obtain a local and or regents diploma from their sending school. Responsibilities and

Duties

• Recommends qualified candidates for paid internships.
• Monitors job postings.
• Contact qualified candidates for scheduled interviews.
• Follow-up on the status of all applicants in the interview process.
• Update all candidate status changes as candidate goes through interview process.
• Responsible for the collection and review of paperwork of internship participants and prepares written reports related to participant status.

• Counsel candidates on proper work readiness and other work-related processes and procedures.
• Responsible for LTW weekly workshops and arranges for external presenters on a weekly or monthly basis.
• Manages day-to-day operations of programs to assist students in obtaining their employment and training needs and other community resources.
• Develops and monitors system of information and data collection related to outcome measures.

• Supervises workgroups and/or special projects (e.g. business day, assessment committee, etc.).
• Responsible for daily attendance outreach of assigned caseload.
• Responsible for conducting individual check-in meetings with every student on their caseload.
• Arranges for and/or participates in program presentations (e.g. civic and school groups, community organizations, etc.).

• Recruit businesses to become involved in the Young Adult Learning to Work Center through listing jobs and conducting on-site recruitment.
• Assist in the daily student advocate responsibilities of the YABC Youth Development Model.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned and deemed necessary by CBO Director for functionality of the overall program.

• The ideal candidate must possess a minimum bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum 4 years career exploration experience preferably with youth between the ages of 17-21.
• Experience within a high school or post-secondary setting is highly preferred.
• Applicant must be available to work between the hours of 12:30 PM - 8:30 PM Monday through Thursday and 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM on Fridays.
• Applicant must be FINGERPRINTED.