Employment Specialist

IRC - International Rescue Committee

Requisition ID: req50834

Job Title: Employment Specialist

Sector: Employment

Employment Class: Fastened Time period

Employment Kind: Full-Time

Compensation: USD 18.70 – 20.50 Hourly

Location: Tallahassee, FL USA

Work Association: Hybrid

Job Description

Job Overview: The Employment Specialist assists newly arrived refugees and different certified immigrants to realize self-sufficiency by means of employment by guiding them by means of employment preparation, coordinating job placements, and different profession development providers.

Main Duties:

Duties embrace, however are usually not restricted to:

  • Conduct consumption, evaluation and supply program orientation to shoppers eligible for employment providers.Develop complete employment plans and price range methods for every employable grownup.Present job readiness and job search teaching and join shoppers with job alternatives.
  • Develop and domesticate long run relationships with space employers and staffing companies to establish applicable employment alternatives for shoppers.
  • Help shoppers and employers as essential with post-placement points and persevering with employment wants.
  • Monitor consumer job efficiency, wage ranges, and associated metrics.
  • Element every consumer interplay in accordance with program necessities. Enter consumer data in database(s) and help with monitoring and reporting as wanted.
  • Collaborate successfully with coworkers and accomplice organizations. Construct and preserve relationships with space service suppliers for the advantage of shoppers.
  • Use private, insured car and/or public transportation (the place out there) to journey and transport shoppers and supplies as wanted all through the service supply space.
  • Might prepare and lead the actions of assist workers, volunteers, and interns.
  • Different duties as assigned.

Job Necessities:

Training: Bachelor’s diploma in social work or associated subject of examine most well-liked.

Work Expertise:

  • Related skilled expertise in workforce growth subject required; minimal of two years’ expertise strongly most well-liked.
  • Expertise working with refugee and/or immigrant populations strongly most well-liked.
  • Expertise with job placement and job readiness coaching a plus.

Demonstrated Expertise & Competencies:

  • Robust relationship constructing, diplomacy, and networking expertise; capability to successfully construct inner and exterior relationships.
  • Demonstrated success working and speaking successfully in a multi-cultural surroundings.
  • Self-starter with glorious problem-solving expertise mixed with the confirmed capability to multi-task, prioritize duties, and handle time successfully.
  • Consideration to element and accuracy in work product.
  • Proficient in English, each spoken and written; proficiency in language(s) spoken by consumer group is desired; together with Dari, Farsi, and/or Pashto.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Workplace purposes (Phrase, Excel, Outlook); capability to make use of the web and different digital instruments for information entry, analysis and problem-solving functions.
  • Legitimate driver’s license and entry to a private, insured car.

Working Setting:

  • A mix of normal workplace surroundings, distant work, and ‘subject’ time throughout the service supply space to carry out the above outlined tasks.
  • Might require occasional weekend and/or night work.

Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are primarily based on varied elements together with the labor market, job sort, inner fairness, and price range.  Actual affords are calibrated by work location, particular person candidate expertise and expertise relative to the outlined job necessities.

Gender Equality: IRC is dedicated to narrowing the gender hole in management positions. We provide advantages that present an enabling surroundings for ladies to take part in our workforce together with parental go away, gender-sensitive safety protocols and different supportive advantages and allowances. 

Equal Alternative Employer: We’re an equal alternative employer and worth variety at our firm. We don’t discriminate on the idea of race, faith, shade, nationwide origin, intercourse, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, veteran standing, or incapacity standing. We are going to make sure that people with disabilities are offered cheap lodging to take part within the job utility or interview course of, to carry out important job capabilities, and to obtain different advantages and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request lodging.

US Advantages: We provide a complete and extremely aggressive set of advantages. Within the US, these embrace: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid break day days (relying on position and tenure), medical insurance coverage beginning at $145 per thirty days, dental beginning at $7 per thirty days, and imaginative and prescient beginning at $5 per thirty days, FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter prices, a 403b retirement financial savings plans with as much as 4.5% instantly vested matching contribution, plus a 3-7% base IRC contribution (3 12 months vesting), incapacity & life insurance coverage, and an Worker Help Program which is out there to our workers and their households to assist counseling and care in instances of disaster and psychological well being struggles. 

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