Youth Career Navigator
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish
YWCA SKS is the regions largest non-profit organization with a 120 year legacy focused on the needs of women with programs serving 7000 people each year. When you work with YWCA you make a difference.
Were women and BIPOC-led family-centered and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30 hours) youll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance generous vacation holiday sick leave plans and an outstanding retirement your passion for racial equity and social justice to work apply today!
What Youll Do
The Youth Career Navigator provides outreach and employment and training-focused case management to low-income and underserved youth residents in South King County. The Youth Career navigator will be responsible for recruiting youth from the surrounding community and from King County Housing Authority occupants with a focus on BIPOC youth who face barriers to engagement employment and economic advancement. This position helps youth develop workplace readiness job search skills and college success skills and access training internships and employment opportunities. This position will also provide ongoing career and educational support and case management and will work one-on-one with each participant to designate career-focused goals and action steps identify and develop strengths remove barriers apply for jobs and prepare for employment. The Navigator also assists with youth development and employment workshops supports recruitment of youth into employment and collaborates with community partners who serve youth. The Youth Career Navigator will also support the training needs and learning outcomes of young adults enrolled in the YWCAs Food and Beverage Customer Service training program a partnership with Starbucks.
This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking around how external system impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principals of antiracism and grounding those principles in everyday work as well as working well in non-white environments and championing anti-racism policy are required job skills and core values. As an equal opportunity employer we highly encourage people of color to apply.
Expectations of your role:
- Recruits interviews and screens youth participants to determine eligibility and enrolls and orients program participants
- Conducts assessments to determine planned services and customize an individual employment plan
- Provides ongoing case management coaching and support
- Works in tandem with other YWCA youth-serving staff including career navigators instructors life coaches and youth development specialists
- Networks and maintains contact with representatives of other social service providers and community colleges
- Determines participants job readiness training placement and support services needs
- Collaborates with participants to develop career and employment objectives and individual development action plans
- Connects participants to appropriate occupational training programs apprenticeship programs internship opportunities and youth employment and training programs
- Supports youth enrolled in school or training to persist and successfully complete their program
- Provides individual and group job search preparation and training to clarify and develop the habits and attitudes needed to be successful in the workplace
- Coaches participants in developing resumes cover letters social media profiles and other job search materials and successful interviewing techniques
- Provides clients with appropriate employer referrals and job search information
- Facilitates successful job placements by matching participants with appropriate employers
- Maintains complete and accurate client case files and makes necessary corrections and updates per program requirements and funder requests
- Enters client information into the program database on a regular basis and completes program reports
- Meets deadlines for case notes monthly reports and quarterly full data and narrative reporting
- Initiates and develops relationships with local employers for the purpose of developing job opportunities and placing clients
- Implement all work by incorporating the YWCAs Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism sexism classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in all institutions and systems. Recognize that solving racism is the root of how we understand and heal from these isms.
- Show demonstrated ability to interact with people of different cultures
- Continue search for understanding of racial gender and class equity
- Adhere to all Volunteer Services protocol relative to volunteer usage recognition and monitoring. Work alongside volunteers where applicable. Understand where internalized oppressions (superiority and inferiority) play a role in volunteer and client interaction and know ways to address these oppressions from a solutions-based perspective
- Assure that volunteers are treated with respect and dignity regardless of race ethnic background gender or socioeconomic background. Understand how racism has played a role in defining what respect and dignity is and use racial equity and multiracial perspectives when teaming with volunteers
Must haves to be successful:
- One to two years of demonstrated experience required performing work related to client recruitment and enrollment career assessment and planning support services occupational training workplace readiness job placement records maintenance and outcomes reporting
- Additional experience in job and Work-site development internship placement and retention services
- Knowledge of the local labor market and target client population(s)
- Knowledge of career assessment methods
- Knowledge of local occupational training program and resources
- Strong customer service orientation
- Experience working with communities of color
- Demonstrated understanding of the intersection of racism and poverty
- Sensitivity to the needs of YWCA clients who are homeless low income limited English speaking or impacted by domestic violence substance abuse or other barriers to employment
- Commitment to diversity and ability to work well with diverse family styles and multi-ethnic populations
- Oral written and interpersonal communications skills
- Creativity in problem-solving decision making and negotiating solutions
- Working independently and as a member of a team
- Prioritizing and organizing workload and managing time to meet deadlines
- Computer familiarity with MS Word. Excel and E-mail
- Candidate must be able to travel independently between multiple work sites within a day
- Core Competencies Expected: Caring professionalism fostering diversity social justice advocacy interpersonal skills initiative collaboration and problem solving
Hours Rate and Benefits
- Hourly Range: $26.50
- Hours: 40 Hours per week
- Excellent benefits package including medical insurance retirement plan plus generous vacation holiday and sick leave plans. For more information about our benefits please visit: YWCA Careers & Benefits Information
- At the time of hire employees may enroll voluntarily in the Fidelity 403b Plan
- After two years of employment employees are eligible to participate in the YWCA Retirement Fund
Physical Requirements
- Continuously does indoor work including operating computer
- Frequently stands and walks while performing duties
- Occasionally reaches outward above shoulders lifts/carries 11 to 20lbs. pushes/pulls 13 to 25 lbs. bends and handles/fingers office equipment
* Continuously over 80% time Frequently 20-80% time and Occasionally under 20% time
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YWCA encourages applicants with a variety of experiences to apply!
At YWCA we recognize that lived expertise is a powerful asset. This refers to the insights knowledge and skills developed by those who have navigated systems and experienced inequity.
Valuing lived expertise helps build trust with program participants develop culturally responsive programs and break down barriers to equity. It enriches our collective understanding and enhances our ability to serve communities that are furthest from opportunity.
Mental Health Considerations
All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms including but not limited to racial trauma domestic violence sexual violence homelessness unemployment and financial hardship. As a result employees are at risk of secondary encourage employees to seek support inside and outside the workplace and maintain self-care routines.
Equal Opportunity Employment
YWCA Seattle King Snohomishis an Equal Opportunity read more about this view theEEO is the LawPoster and thisEEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
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