Career Coach - Vanderburgh County

Job description

Diversified Services Network Inc. is seeking a Career Coach to work on a long-term project. This will serve Vanderburgh County and based out of the Evansville, IN office. Essential Job Responsibilities: - Manages a caseload of participants and provides work readiness 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 - 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 t...