Employment Success Coordinator

Program Overview:

The Graham SLAM program works with youth ages 16 -24 who are in Graham Windham’s programs including foster care, foster care prevention, community-based afterschool and mental health programs. The program aims to develop a strong network of support for each young person through high school and post-secondary education and training (college or a recognized vocational certificate program) and into living-wage employment. The program ‘sticks with’ youth through age 25, or into a living wage career path.

The Employment Success Coordinator will support SLAM youth in developing a pathway to employment success. They will develop and maintain long-term, cooperative working relationships with private, public, and community employment partners in collaboration with the Graham SLAM team. They will also assist program participants in internship placements and career-oriented employment.

Graham SLAM Employment Success Coordinator will:

• Create and manage a SLAM employment pathway for youth.
• Develop placements for work experience, work-study, internships, and community service/volunteer opportunities with employers in the private, public, and community sector for youth in the Graham SLAM program.
• Create and maintain a pipeline to entry-level employment internships that give access to direct placements with companies.
• Develop and maintain an internal job bank database.
• Maintain current applications, interview data, and initiate techniques to better serve and match participants with jobs and internships.
• Compile, develop, and maintain file notes, statistical reports, and records with both partners and participants to better understand success rate and trends.
• Stay up to date with job market information that affects youth employment trends.
• Develop and maintain long-term, cooperative working relationships with private, public, and community employment partners.
• Manage all employment and internship related reporting including entering required data into the SLAM database.
• Attend workshops, meetings and training related to workforce opportunities for SLAM youth.
• Work creatively towards increasing retention and maintaining strong participant attendance by facilitating work-readiness workshops. This includes serving as the lead person for Career Club and providing support to SLAM staff who facilitate the workshops.
• Develop and coordinate job placement activities with SLAM Coaches, such as field trips and Workshops.
• Travel to multiple service sites within the program
• Perform other related duties as required by Supervisor.
• Are able to work with diverse populations (including LGBTQ) and cultures, process information and respond empathically.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree preferred

Two years of experience in workforce development

Computer literate and conversant with social media

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