Business Development Specialist
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Description
Consider joining Community Integrated Services the largest local supported employment provider as we empower people with disabilities through individualized employment opportunities. Through creativity flexibility and community collaboration CIS provides individualized person-centered support and training to help individuals with disabilities attain their employment goals.
Apply your talents in networking to build strong relationships and secure employment positions for our participants. You would initiate and maintain contacts with a variety of businesses and industries in order to match the participant to the most appropriate job.
Qualifications
POSITION SUMMARY
To assist people with disabilities gain and maintain employment. Develop and provide support strategies associated with placing and supporting people with disabilities through employment in the community focusing on the consumer working as independently as possible. To assist individuals with disabilities in securing long term employment positions and strengthen employer relationships through networking.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To accomplish this job successfully an individual must be able to perform with or without reasonable accommodation each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations provided to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions Statement(s)
Develop community job leads for assigned individuals meeting their needs desires and capabilities.
Complete Monthly summaries for DVR/DDDS.
Initiate and maintain ongoing personal contacts with a variety of business and industry representatives. Contacts must be done in a variety of ways including labor market analysis on-line face to face site visits employer interviews cold call contacts informational interviews group presentations and job developing with the consumer.
Conduct informational interviews with employers.
Collects data from employers related to job openings including job requirements and skills.
Matches applicants to jobs refers qualified applicants to employers and conducts necessary follow-up when applicants are placed in jobs.
Provide job coaching services as needed.
Record and document all activity with consumers and job search activity on their behalf in the form of case notes job development logs and daily activity logs. Complete job development logs and case notes each day on Sharepoint or Therap.
Attend networking opportunities with potential employers to obtain contact information.
Attend and actively participate in business networking (BN) meetings weekly or biweekly meetings with managers attend initial job development meetings after consumer has completed assessments.
Create resumes register consumers with email accounts and complete job applications. Monitor and manage consumers professional email accounts.
Accompany advocate and market consumers skills at interviews. Assist consumers with travel and travel related issues such as coordinating travel and travel training.
Promptly follow up with employers about applications and job openings.
Effectively communicate with coworkers and consumers about all things that pertain to job development. Assist with the transition from Job Development to Employment.
Analyze and develop support strategies that may be used by the consumer to do their job tasks. Emphasis on those most natural to the work place.
Gather detailed information on each task the consumer is to complete the type of assistance needed strategies on fading and identify natural supports. This is to begin on the first day of work.
Abide by all policies and procedures outlined in the Employee Handbook and Service Delivery Handbook.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competency Statement(s)
Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
Adaptability - Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
Assertiveness - Ability to act in a self-confident manner to facilitate completion of a work assignment or to defend
a position or idea.
Communication Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
Communication Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
Creative - Ability to think in such a way as to produce a new concept or idea.
Goal Oriented - Ability to focus on a goal and obtain a pre-determined result.
Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
Negotiation Skills - Ability to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties.
Persuasive - Ability to influence others to change position or to adopt a specific point of view.
Persistence - Ability to complete tasks or continue in a course of action in spite of opposition or discouragement.
Presentation Skills - Ability to effectively present information publicly.
Relationship Building - Ability to effectively build relationships with customers and co-workers.
Sales Ability - Ability to use appropriate interpersonal styles and communication methods to gain acceptance of a
product service or idea.
Teamwork - Ability to work well with coworkers.
- Bachelors Degree preferred (four year college or technical school)
- 1 plus years of experience in Education Social Services or Business preferred
- Ability to effectively use Microsoft Office products specifically Outlook Excel and Word.
- Possess valid drivers license and automobile insurance.
- Must have access to an automobile and internet access at home.
- Able to pass all required background checks.
- Must be fully vaccinated or in the process of getting fully vaccinated.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
