Career Advisor - RESEA, Texas

Job Description

Manages a caseload of up to 40-60 participants, depending on the program, and provides career coaching and mentoring

Meet program expenditures and applicable enrollment targets

Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills, and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions

Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness and follow-up services

Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals

Maintains information about area resources and employers

Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals

Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment

Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues

Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement

Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts

Prepares, organizes, and maintains 100% accuracy rate on all files and databases

Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued

Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment and self-sufficiency

Facilitates customer access to training, education, and employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level

Display the ability to work with a variety of cultures, languages, educational and economic backgrounds in a classroom setting

Always coordinate individual instruction in an orderly and professional manner

Ensure the job readiness of participants in workshops to deliver a pipeline of work ready customers to staff

Ensure that individual participants complete and turn in assignments as scheduled

Conduct follow-up outreach to participants not engaged in activities and document efforts in program issues systems

Maintain participants’ assessments in files and databases

Must work well in a team setting, with business customers and other staff

Able to communicate effectively both oral and written

Travel to centers within the 14-county board area as needed

This position works in-person on-site in the assigned workforce center

Additional duties as assigned