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Employment Specialist

2 months ago

Austin, United States World Relief Full time
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world's greatest problems - disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.

In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered 'yes', to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

World Relief seeks an Employment Specialist to provide critical services and counsel to refugees and other eligible persons as they search for initial employment or seek career advancement and job upgrade opportunities. This position assists refugees and other eligible persons to become economically self-sufficient by preparing them for employment, utilizing employer contacts to place them in jobs, counseling on job upgrades and career pathway opportunities, and maintaining and expanding an employer network. This role is based out of the Austin office.

Role & Responsibilities
    • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
    • Make connections with new employers to advocate for the hiring of clients in their companies
    • Researching new job opportunities outside of the normal entry level jobs available to clients
    • Researching vocational trainings and guiding clients in career paths aimed at accomplishing clients' career goals
    • Learn best practices for finding and securing employment for clients by attending employment trainings
    • Maintain regular communication with clients through client home visits, phone calls and office visits
    • Monitor files to ensure all required documents are included and files are in compliance with RSS Employment Guidelines
    • Enter employment information in the ClientTrack database weekly
    • Maintain detailed and accurate case notes for all client interactions
    • Assist clients in developing letters of recommendation, resumes, and applications
    • Attend scheduled meetings and maintain regular office hours
    • Provide transportation to interviews, orientations, and employment for clients for the first few days as needed
    • Assist clients with employment forms, drug screening tests, and securing state documentation
    • Maintain open lines of communication with current employers reporting issues back to Program Manager as needed to foster relationships with employers notifying Program Manager of potential new employers
    • Equip clients to conduct independent employment searches
    • Assist clients with job retention and upward mobility of employment, as needed
    • Refer clients to other programs and services as needed
    • Maintain an initial employment orientation session with each client for the purpose of preparing refugees for employment and update as needed
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
    • Valid Driver's License
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
    • Ability to manage multiple demands and deadlines with flexibility
    • Ability to maintain records and reports
    • Detail-oriented and organized
    • Demonstrates initiative, flexibility, and responsibility
    • Ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing
    • Effectively manage stressful or crisis situations
    • Ability to speak an additional language would be beneficial, but is not required
Requirements
    • Mature and personal Christian faith
    • Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
    • Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
    • Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
    • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
    • Ability to manage multiple demands and deadlines with flexibility
    • Ability to maintain records and reports
    • Detail-oriented and organized
    • Demonstrates initiative, flexibility, and responsibility
    • Ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing
    • Effectively manage stressful or crisis situations
    • Up to 25% domestic travel only required
    • Valid Driver's License


$23 - $25 an hour

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package (25 hours + per week):

- Medical, Dental, Vision

- Offer 16 company Paid Holidays + 4 additional Personal days per year

- Paid Sick and Vacation Time

- Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks for qualified employees)

- FSAs: Medical & Dependent Care, & Commuter Funding

- Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse, and children)

- Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident insurance policies

- Legal Shield Insurance

World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:

- Group Term Life (employee, spouse, and children)

- Long Term & Short-term Disability

- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)

- Long Distance Travel Insurance

- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

World Relief - Retirement:

- 401K & Roth

- WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%

- Eligibility: Full Time (40 hours per week) is eligible after 3 months of employment. Part time is eligible after 1000 hours in a year.

World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible):

- Verizon

- Pet Insurance through Nationwide

- Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual

- Working Advantage Discount Program

- Active & Fit Gym Membership

World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations

•The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.

•Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.

•The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

•General office setting. World Relief also offers hybrid and remote schedules for limited positions.

•Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in virtual meetings may be required.

•Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.

•Physical, emotional and intellectual demands

•Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.

•All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Legal Background in the United States

World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization.World Relief strictly prohibits and does not tolerate unlawful discrimination against employees on the basis of person's race, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law, which does not conflict with the protections afforded World Relief as a faith-based employer.

In addition, physical or mental limitations will not be a factor in the application of World Relief's employment policies or employee practices, except for those situations in which occupational requirement make consideration of such factors necessary.

Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief's Statement of Faith.