Job Description
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Sycamore Services is seeking a Career Coach!
The Career Coach will be employed by a community rehabilitation provider and will serve as the single point of contact representing the collaborative. This position will be fully embedded in the school and school culture and responsible for:
Job Overview - Facilitating quality employment outcomes and career choices for students,
- including supporting development of work internship sites,
- Assisting VR in referral process of students for
- this project as needed,
- Supporting school personnel with skill development and training of students,
- Connecting students and families with necessary resources, including provider selection and collecting data to support the goals of the research project.
- Communicating with collaborative partners.
Requirements
Job Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in human services or related experience
- Must meet the minimum level of competency for an employment specialist including experience in
- special education, supported employment, and/or transition service delivery
- Must have a driver's license
- Knowledge of transition practices from school to adult life, person-centered planning, self-determination and community support services
- Good computer skills, oral and written communication skills, and organizational skills
- Membership in professional, business, or community organizations is an asset
- Must be able to keep accurate documentation
- Work non-standard/flexible hours
- Ability to lift a minimum of 35 pounds: upper body leverage strength required
Preferred Qualifications - Knowledge of benefits planning and work incentive programs or willingness to learn
- Membership in professional, business, or community organizations is an asset
Physical Demands - Ability to lift a minimum of 35 pounds: upper body leverage strength required
- Bending, sitting, and standing for long periods of time
Job Type Sycamore Services is committed to employees, customers, and the community to promote diversity and inclusion by developing policies, programs, and procedures that foster a work environment where differences are respected and employees are treated fairly.
Sycamore Services prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind and ensures equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all aspects of the relationship between Sycamore Services and its employees, including recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, wages and salary administration, employee benefits, and application of policies.
Job Tags
Full time, Internship, Flexible hours,