Job Developer Career Coach

Job Title: Job Developer Career Coach

Reports To: William Blair

Department: Career Services

Job Type: [Full-time] – Salary Exempt

Salary Range: $60k plus competitive benefits

Objective of Role: As a Career Coach, you will play a pivotal role in delivering top-quality career development solutions to justice-involved young adults. Your focus will be on supporting internship and employment goals for individuals facing complex barriers to employment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage with opportunity youth in a career development setting, applying coaching strategies that promote youth development principles
• Develop a sustainable network of internship and employment opportunities in various industries for participants, fostering career ladder potential.
• Oversee the referral/interview/placement cycle, including participant assessments, employer interactions, and feedback tracking.
• Manage a portfolio of participants, guiding and supporting internship and employment placement, retention, wage growth and career advancement.
• Support the development of the Candidate Portfolio (CP), a toolkit essential for successful job searches and interviews.
• Teach effective job search and online application strategies, enhancing participant outcomes.
• Assist with facilitating career readiness or job readiness transition program workshops using assigned curriculum.
• Update Salesforce and assist with administrative tasks as assigned.

Essential Skills:

• Strong communication and presentation skills, adept at engaging audiences.
• Familiarity with labor market information tools and trends.
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Core Competencies:

• Excellent work ethic.
• Commitment to working in a mission driven organization.
• Demonstrated personal ethics and values.
• Cross-team collaboration and cooperation.
• Team-player who works well with a diverse group of people.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or two years of professional experience in staffing, human resources, or workforce development.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in a youth development setting.
• Background in career assessment planning, mentoring, career coaching, or sector- based skills training.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools and willingness to embrace technology.
• Career Coach or Resume Writer Certifications from PARW/CC are a plus.
• Bilingual (Spanish) skills are a plus.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary commensurate with experience. GOSO offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Please send a resume with cover letter to: [email protected]. Resumes without a cover letter will not be considered.

GOSO is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About GOSO: Getting Out and Staying Out has a vision of a world where neither a person’s race nor their prior contact with the legal system determines their future. To work toward that vision, we partner with young people impacted by arrest or incarceration on a journey of education, employment, and emotional well-being. For many of our participants, that journey begins while they are detained or incarcerated, on Rikers Island or in youth detention centers. We work with all interested individuals, regardless of the charges that they face, engaging them in future planning through programing focused on education, employment, and emotional well-being while helping to meet their immediate needs, whether physical (warm clothing, commissary supplies), psychological (correspondence and communication to help maintain links to the outside world), or legal (coordinating with public defense attorneys on courtroom advocacy). Among the major programs that are under the GOSO umbrella are Stand Against Violence East Harlem (SAVE), GOSOWorks, and multiple education programs (including Pathways-to-Graduation, a high school equivalency program). GOSO served its participants and the Harlem community throughout the Pandemic and, in fact, expanded its budget in the past few years. We are currently building our external relations functions, including development, in order to position GOSO for continued growth and expanded impact on those at the heart of our mission.