Job Description

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for supporting underserved residents of Multnomah County on a path to self-sufficiency by providing opportunities for skill building, training, and work experience by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties:

• Conducts outreach, recruits, enrolls, and maintains caseload of up to 40 young adult clients, with a focus on low income people of color experiencing housing instability.
• Coordinates outreach and develops relationships with local employers and creates mechanisms for clients to access opportunities.
• Plans and facilitates lessons on job readiness, employment skills, and career exploration and pathways.

Job Duties:

• Engages clients in goal setting and monitoring, meet regularly with clients to implement individualized plans to achieve short and long term goals.
• Collaborates with 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.
• Supports clients in accessing and navigating WorkSource Portland Metro and sector-specific services.
• Builds professional relationships with clients and support them in addressing barriers to employment and educational achievement, serves as professional mentor, coach, and client advocate.
• Documents all client interaction, progress, participation, and data in workforce development-specific database system on a daily basis.
• Maintains detailed, organized, and updated files, in compliance with local and federal government contractors.
• Prepares for quarterly program and file audits.
• Manages client exits and enrollments to maintain full caseload capacity.
• Supports clients in navigating systems and social services, including housing assistance and SNAP, collaborates with other service providers to enhance service delivery.
• Develops culturally responsive, innovative, and engaging curriculum designed to build client’s employability and life skills.
• Researches promising practices of serving low income clients and approaches to alleviating poverty to ensure program model is dynamic and responsive to client needs.
• Works in partnership with POIC’s 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.
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and two to three years’ related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Proven experience in workforce development and placing clients with multiple barriers in employment. Familiarity with trauma-informed practice and strength-based approaches to working with clients preferred. 
• Experience working with non-profits and within government funded systems is preferred.

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:

• Personal Statement that includes:
  • Why you are interested in working for POIC.
• How 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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