POSITION TITLE: Employment Specialist.
REPORTS TO: EFSC Director.
STATUS: Exempt: Full-time.
Join the team at The Senior Source and feel the energy, enthusiasm, and passion for Making Older Better. We are seeking an Employment Specialist that possesses exceptional technology, organizational, communication, and time management skills, and experience working in a fast-paced environment.
Summary:
The Employment Specialist reports to the Director of the Elder Financial Safety Center and is responsible for preparing and coordinating job readiness and career development strategies for older adult clients. They are also accountable for providing workforce training and communicating with clients and volunteers in the department. As a member of the Elder Financial Safety Center team, the Employment Specialist works with a cross-functional team to address the economic security of individuals aged 50 and above. This position does not involve managing direct reports.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Engages clients of diverse backgrounds and establishes trusting, collaborative relationships, assessing for job readiness, career enhancement, or post-retirement work using career development strategies and coaching techniques.
- Partner with experts in the field to organize vocational education and training sessions on topics such as resume development, interview skills, fraud protection, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, technology, and multigenerational working.
- Identifies technology gaps among current older adult clients related to everyday technology use and workforce trends imperative to older adult learning, employment procurement, and maintaining their independence.
- Creates, implements, evaluates, and reports on technology content and programs
delivered by technology training content partner. - Ability to perform technology training in person, online, and through mobile applications.
- Prepares annual technology programming plan that is adaptable to changing needs of clients and current technology trends.
- At regular intervals, assess the progress of program clients, record their progress, connect them to resources, and document the outcomes.
- Make sure all required forms, tests, and assessments for the program are conducted accurately and the outcomes are appropriately recorded and shared.
- Manages and maintains client and professional contacts, training and education resources, and community network information in the database using proven documentation methods.
- Leads and participates in project initiatives as a member of a cross-functional team inside and outside the scope of expertise and experience.
Requirements:
- One to three years of any combination of training, education, and experience that is equivalent to the duties and responsibilities listed above and that provides the required knowledge and abilities.
- Cultural competence with an ability to work successfully within an inclusive team and with diverse clients from various backgrounds
- Ability to motivate clients and train and guide other staff when required.
- Ability to conduct assignments and projects without detailed instructions.
- Excellent verbal, written and communication skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
- Capacity to work in a first of its kind program that requires a high level of adaptation and willingness to be flexible as the project evolves.
- Four-year degree required in Education, Technology, Training, HR, or related field preferred.
- Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
- Experience with technology and data management systems necessary.
Working Environment:
Office, work from home, and community working environment
Disclaimer:
The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and
responsibilities required of the Elder Financial Safety Center Employment Specialist.
Position Positives:
- Generous PTO policy
- 403B contribution plan with employer matching
- Opportunities for working remotely with supervisor permission.
- A collaborative culture with team building and staff events throughout the year
If interested, please submit a cover letter, salary requirements, and resume to Julie Krawczyk
at JKrawczyk@theseniorsource.org.
The Senior Source is the #1 resource in the Dallas area for empowering and equipping individuals and families to navigate aging. Since 1961, we have provided financial and emotional services for older adults to age with dignity and purpose. Whether older adults are navigating financial matters, caregiving issues, or senior living options, The Senior Source guides them towards a successful solution.
The Elder Financial Safety Center is a collaboration between The Senior Source, Dallas County Probate Courts, and Dallas County District Attorney’s Office offering PREVENTION, PROTECTION, and PROSECUTION services. Our vision is to ensure all older adults live in a safe community with the financial resources to securely age with dignity.
Diversity and inclusion are essential to The Senior Source’s mission of enhancing the quality of life of older adults in Dallas. We continually foster and support the principles and values of our agency by promoting an environment that is welcoming and inclusive of all values, opinions, experiences, cultures to best address the needs of our employees, clients, and volunteers.
The Senior Source is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.