Bilingual Talent Development Special Initiatives Career Advisor (800017)

● Provide job search support, coaching, and assistance to equip individuals with the tools needed to procure employment.● Facilitate orientation sessions and professional development workshops, in collaboration with the NCWorks team, to increase awareness and access to career services.● 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 training and/or jobs that will lead to employment and or advancement.● Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts.● Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information and case notes in both electronic and/or paper reflecting participants job readiness activity the entire history of a program participation.● Provides case management and referrals to community partners with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency.● Facilitates customer access to training, education, and employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level.● Participates and/or host local area job fairs and hiring events.● Must be available to work non-standard hours, including evenings and weekends, and travel between multiple apartment community locations, while coordinating and communicating with on-site teams, such as Community Health Managers and Workers.