Youth Empowerment Coaches - Bilingual Preferred (Opportunity Center) Onsite

Job description

Company Description Assists program participants in developing occupational and vocational goals reflective of their skills, capabilities and interests. Manages participant progress towards achieving goals by creating and updating plans. Job Description: - Manages a caseload of participants and provides counseling and mentoring. - 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. - 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. - 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 r...