Lead Instructor Work Readiness Program (Disability Services) Manhattan & Brooklyn

Essential Responsibilities

• Create relationships with referral sources to recruit appropriate interns for Project SEARCH program.
• Create and organize assessment activities/days to identify interns for the program.
• Help with all enrollments for the program related to OPWDD funding and maintaining the Project SEARCH database.
• Help with all onboarding requirements needed to be fulfilled by the host business.
• Develop relationships with the different department managers to Identify internship sites within the host business that build a repertoire of marketable skills that lead to competitive, integrated employment.
• Ensure that internships include measurable skills gain that is assessed according to productivity, quality, and safety benchmarks.
• Develop classroom work readiness activities and a monthly schedule based on the Project SEARCH employability skills curriculum that is reinforced in the internships developing skills, knowledge and work habits leading to successful employment.
• Organize field trips for financial literacy, mock interviews, resume building, etc. workshops.
• Facilitate regular Employment Planning Meetings with interns, families, and agency personnel to determine career interests, specific job preferences, skills, and abilities to design an individualized approach to job development.
• Identify and problem solve solutions for challenges that interfere with completion of Project SEARCH and gaining and maintaining employment.
• Aid in completing the Vocational Fit Assessment or other job matching tools to determine the abilities of the intern, the demands of the internship tasks and assist the team to make meaningful job/internship matches.
• Use Vocfit and other assessment tools to evaluate the interns progress and to identify additional skill/task development.
• Use universal design concepts to design and implement accommodations and adaptations needed at the internship sites.
• Supervise and support the Project SEARCH skills instructor in providing individualized support for the intern during each internship rotation.

Compensation Package

Compensation Package: $55,000 per year plus a very generous and comprehensive Benefit package. See additional Benefit information below.