OA/CTS MANAGER

Job Summary

Job Duties

• Manages all matters related to contract administration including recruitment, hiring, training coaching, managing performance/evaluations, and progressive discipline in collaboration with corporate HR and direct supervisor.
• Establishes standard operating procedures (SOPs) and submits them to the Corporate and Regional Office for approval.
• Develops and implements an outreach/public education plan to achieve and maintain overall design capacity and describes public education and outreach methods, activities, events, and linkages.
• Notifies the Corporate and Regional Office of newsworthy events, press, or media coverage.
• Works cooperatively with schools, social service agencies, Youth Opportunity Grantees, One-Stop centers, youth councils, youth programs, other employment and training programs, National Training Contractors (NCTS), NJCA members, state vocational rehabilitation agencies, associations, and other appropriate organizations to promote referral of applicants who are eligible to participate in the Job Corps program.
• Develops and implements a media advertising plan in collaboration with the Regional Office and National Media consultants.
• Affirms the eligibility of applicants for the Job Corps program.
• Ensures all applicants meet DOL essential admissions requirements criteria prior to assignment.
• Ensures background checks are conducted on each applicant to determine whether the applicant should be considered for enrollment.
• Affirms the applicants' educational and training need can be best met through the Job Corps program.
• Affirms that documents are obtained from applicants to verify they qualify as "low income."
• Affirms that applicants denied enrollment are notified of the negative determination and provides a clear, documented explanation for the determination, ensures applicants denied enrollment receive a referred to an appropriate One-Stop center, or other training/educational resource in their home community.
• Develops systems to assign eligible applicants to available training slots in accordance with contract goals, center needs, and applicant interest.
• Ensures each applicant is provided specific and current information about the center of assignment, including location rules, career technical training waiting lists, and program expectations.
• Ensures each applicant is notified of his or her assignment date and the process for departure and ensures the applicants are accompanied to scheduled departure site or arranged for another responsible escort and sees that the applicant departs safely as scheduled.

Qualifications

• Experience and Education: Bachelor’s degree in human services, psychology, counseling, education, social science, business communications, or closely related field and two years related supervisory experience. Associate's degree in human services, psychology, counseling, education, social science, business communications, or closely related field and four years related supervisory experience.
• Certificates: Licenses, Registrations: Valid Driver’s License
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representations of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The noise level can vary from moderate to loud.