TANF Employment Specialist

Applications due by September 9, 2024

Hybrid Remote Opportunity!

Pay: $24 per hour

This position is eligible for Daily Pay!  Work today, get paid today! We’ve partnered with DailyPay, a voluntary benefit to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm - Hybrid Remote Work Schedule 

This full-time position is eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Flexible Spending Accounts, Long Term Disability, and several voluntary supplemental benefit offerings.  In addition, these positions are eligible for paid time off in the form of vacation, sick, holiday, floating holiday, jury duty and bereavement leave.

All employees may also make pre-tax or post-tax (Roth) contributions to our retirement plan – must be 18 years of age to participate.

OBJECTIVE:

The Employment Specialist/Job Developer will assist in the Community Work Experience Program (CWEP) non-profit sites, Alternative Work Experience Program (AWEP) for profit sites, subsidized, and unsubsidized employment placement and oversight of Colorado Works program participants entering work experience programs in order that program participants gain employment experience.  To monitor the delivery of services and the progress of the participant through the program.  To develop work program sites and maintain them to provide optimal employment experience opportunities in varied job fields that will benefit participants.

The Liaison/Job Developer will assist clients one on one with resume building and mock interviewing and work with case managers and the TANF Instructor to provide tailored job leads to clients. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications:  High school diploma or equivalent.

Minimum two years work experience in the same or related field.  Must have significant experience working in a social work atmosphere, understand the culture of poverty, and successfully navigating community, government and corporate programs with complex rules and regulations.

• Must have excellent written, digital, and verbal communication skills.  

• Must be able to communicate respectfully, effectively both one-on-one and able to create materials to be understood by and appeal to a wide audience.

• Must have demonstrated success maintaining relationships with key contacts and groups for the purpose of referrals to programs, knowledge sharing about opportunities available through those relationships to gain inside information about best practices for navigating various bureaucracies.

• Must have the ability to work independently, cooperatively and exercise effective planning while remaining flexible and deal with the pressure of deadlines effectively

• Organizational skills required 

• Experience maintaining positive relationships with key internal stakeholders and identifying key success criteria in conjunction with leadership and stakeholders, implementation...