Lead Bilingual Adult Employment Coordinator

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Job description

Under the direction of the Executive Director and Director of Programs, the Lead Bilingual Adult Employment Coordinator provides a range of essential services to job seekers who are residents of Supervisorial District 11 in San Francisco. BHNC offers comprehensive, people-powered solutions for growing neighborhood jobs andstrengthening the local economy. One of the goals is to provide opportunities to low-income and people of color residents to overcome significant employment barriers. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong interest in workforce development as a means to achieve social and economic justice for low-income and people of color.

THE ORGANIZATION: Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center BHNC is a non-profit community-based multi-services agency founded in 1978. Our mission is to preserve and enhance the ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity of Bernal Heights and surrounding neighborhoods. We promote community action to build a just and equitable community for all.

BHNC focuses on the needs of people with low and moderate incomes. We accomplish our mission by:

? Developing affordable housing throughout San Francisco;

? Providing linguistically and culturally responsive services to our community's most vulnerable adults, seniors, youth, and their families;

? Developing leaders, organizing and empowering our tenants, clients, members, and allies to advocate for their needs and the needs of the community.

BHNC has five key program areas to meet this mission: Housing Development and Rehabilitation, Employment Programs, Senior Services, Youth Services, and Community Organizing.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Management

? Lead employment coordinator with weekly one on one meetings and ongoing team meetings.

? Oversee staff use of client database, ISP review, and client support

? Outreach and marketing of programs to related agencies and local businesses.

? Recruits jobseekers from District 11. Screens, matches, and refers candidates for job opportunities. Maintain participant records.

? Develops, customizes, and delivers cohort training based on individual clients' needs and in groups to provide clients with skills to achieve employment preparation, job placement and retention, and career advancement.

? Provides one-on-one meetings with clients to create an individual employment plan, identifies and arranges participants support services, and makes appropriate job referrals.

? Refers client to appropriate resources for training, work experiences, employment and/or other community services.

? Coordinates community activities including, but not limited to, computer and basic writing skills classes, financial coaching and financial literacy workshops, vocational ESL classes, and others activities that will enhance both hard and soft skills of our clients.

Employment Coordination & Job Development

? Researches the employment market and identifies job opportunities. Develops and maintains strong relationships with employers/businesses to create employmentopportunities for clients.

? Oversees outreach events such as job fairs and business association events; markets programs and services to employers

? Coordinates hiring process between employer and job seeker, as appropriate.

? Coordinates and implements all employment services, including job training, job development, referrals, placement and retention activities

? Prepares monthly activity reports

Other Responsibilities & Duties:

? Participates in internal and external meetings and other collaborative opportunities to support efforts to identify job s and explore capacity building

? Represents the organization in community meetings, including program partner organizations and participating employers.

? Actively seeks to expand knowledge based off workforce development issues and best practices and share information with CUHJ partners.

? Oversees the systems to organize and maintain an efficient client flow/case management with specific emphasis on employment activity and retention follow up

? Others duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills Required:

? Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in English and Spanish. Fluency in Spanish is required for this position.

? Ability to work with at-risk, low-income transitional-aged youth and immigrant adults, especially those who live in the Excelsior.

? Minimum of two years experience working with the target population

? High School diploma or equivalent and relevant work experience required.

? Computer literacy in Windows, MS Word, and the internet; some database experience (Salesforce preferred).

? Fingerprinting Background check required

Knowledge/Skills Preferred:

? Experience facilitating, creating, and implementing activities geared toward transitional aged youth and immigrant adults

? Understanding of employment basics, including resume writing, job application completion, interview techniques, etc.

? Commitment to social action, social justice, delivery of quality services, and development in mixed-income, multi-racial, multi-ethnic community.

? Working knowledge of the private sector and business practices

BHNC is an at will, equal-opportunity employer.

"Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records."

Compensation details: 30-32 Yearly Salary

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