Employment Services Specialist

Employment Services Specialist

Reports to Job Role: VP, Family and Neighborhood Empowerment

FLSA: Exempt

Role: Team Member

Descriptive Summary

The Employment Services Specialist prepares TANF-eligible youth and adults, accessing services at various Cornerstones sites, for successful entry, re-entry, and promotion in the workforce. The Employment Services Specialist is responsible for conducting intakes and skills assessments, working cooperatively with other departments within the agency, networking with other agencies and employers in the community, facilitating group and individual sessions, and documenting cases. The Employment Services Specialist requires a flexible, independent, high-energy individual. The Employment Services Specialist must have strong clinical, interpersonal, and motivational skills and must possess a patient, trauma-informed approach to service delivery using an equity lens. The Employment Services Specialist ensures that employment services are equitable and delivered with integrity in accordance with the Agency Mission, Vision, and Values. A candidate that is bilingual in English/Spanish and has the ability to use one's lived personal experience of housing instability to help assess system barriers is a plus.