Business Development Specialist
Full Time
Columbus, OH 43205
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The goal of the RESEA program is to provide job seekers with a wide array of resources that support reemployment as quickly as possible and connects job seekers to reemployment services, including co-enrollment in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) dislocated worker program or other program services, as appropriate. Responsibilities:
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Overview:
The RESEA program is a federally- funded program that provides intensive reemployment assistance to job seekers who are receiving unemployment benefits and are determined likely to exhaust their benefits before becoming reemployed. The RESEA Talent Development Specialist operates within the Ohio Means Jobs Center Columbus-Franklin County to deliver the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program to program participants.
The goal of the RESEA program is to provide job seekers with a wide array of resources that support reemployment as quickly as possible and connects job seekers to reemployment services, including co-enrollment in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) dislocated worker program or other program services, as appropriate.
- Manages a caseload of participants and provides counseling and mentoring
- Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions
- Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness
- Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals
- Maintains information about area resources and employers
- Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals
- Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment
- Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues
- Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement
- Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts
- Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued
- Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency
- Facilitates customer access to training, education, and to employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level
- Related Associate degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent work experience
- Related work experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated customer service skills
- Familiarity with the communities being served, with knowledge and understanding of local needs and resources
- One to three years experience in workforce development or related programs preferred
RESEA Specific qualifications:
Manage a caseload of RESEA program participants and provide reemployment services.- Deliver the RESEA program by meeting with program participants for their initial and subsequent appointments.
- Assess participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills, and abilities.
- Identify challenges to finding employment and assist participants in finding solutions.
- Complete an individualized overview of available services and work with the participant to create a reemployment plan.
- Maintain information about area resources and employers.
- Provide information to participants on available training and/or employment opportunities.
- Prepare, organize, and maintain accurate, updated information in electronic participant files.
- Operate within a team of RESEA program advisors that deliver the RESEA program.
- Additional duties as assigned.
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