Work Readiness Manager
Location: New York, NY, United States
Job Type: seasonal
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Salary Range: 18.00 - 20.00 USD Hourly
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Description
Multiple Locations (Manhattan, Bronx)
Summary:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Work closely with the Youth Employment Programs Director in the coordination of program operations, administrative tasks, instruction, and assisting with various projects to prepare for the 6-week program.
- Track and maintain programming content, assignments, activity, progress, and daily anecdotes regarding creating the Work Based Learning (WBL) experience.
- Assist partners with outlining WBL questions and concerns, providing feedback on all submitted assignments, and arranging and allowing for time for support via live office hours.
- Coordinate with key community partners who can support the PBL experience.
- Receive and manage incoming calls, arrange conference calls, etc.
- Assist participants in assessing their job skills for positions.
- Provide support in job seeking, application procedures, resume writing, interview preparation, and job retention skills and attitudes.
- Monitor participant performance and counselors' participants when performance is not satisfactory.
- Maintain contact with industry partners during the participants' employment and report results to appropriate staff.
- Maintain equipment and other relevant program support systems.
- Maintain the filing system for department paperwork and relevant program documentation.
- Provide support to the Director and Youth Employment Programs team on special projects and tasks.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are generally 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday–Friday. Additional hours may be required to meet program deadlines or client needs.
Working conditions and physical demands required:
The demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
- Remain stationary at a workstation and use a computer at least 50% of the time.
- Travel at least 50% of the time using public transportation, traverse city streets, occasionally ascend/descend stairs, and be exposed to outside weather conditions.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment, i.e., copier, fax, scanner, postage machine, and printer.
- Ability to use and respond to phone calls
- Ability to file client documents in cabinets.
Pay: $18.00 - $20.00
Qualifications
Education and/or experience required:
- HS Diploma/GED: Some college credit/courses are a plus,
- Minimum of two (2) years of related office experience.
Skills, Licenses, and/or competencies required:
- Bilingual, English/Spanish a plus
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to be a team player, work independently and with diverse groups of people
- Ability to participate in community service initiatives if needed
- Computer literate.
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