Workbase Learning / Advance Trade Coordinator

Duties/Responsibilities

• Makes and sustains positive working relationships with co-workers.
• Affords supervision, behavior modification, counseling, and acts as a positive role model and mentor to assist students in adjusting to Center life to enhance student retention.
• Maintains high levels of customer service while ensuring student needs are met promptly and professionally.
• Adheres to all PRH and CSDC policies and procedures, and Center Operating Procedures.
• Prepares reports and forms, documents observations of student behavior, performance, notable information or events, and progress towards achieving goals and objectives in CIS case notes.
• Maintains confidentiality but reports significant events or situations immediately through approved channels to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students and staff, and to ensure that required reporting occurs, and that students receive emergency services as needed.
• Facilitates prompt and appropriate assistance to students in the event of injury, illness, or emotional trauma.
• Makes individual appointments with students assigned to their area responsibility at least once each month, documenting these meetings in case notes.
• Maintains cleanliness and maintenance of assigned work areas and equipment in accordance with Center, CSD, and DOL standards, including conducting quarterly property counts, submitting property relocation requests, and serving as a property custodian when needed.
• Works with staff, employers, organized labor, and the community to establish positive work-based learning sites for students to learn and practice skills they cannot easily learn in a classroom setting.
• Plans and coordinates activities to bring together appropriate persons, including employers, educators, trainees, and staff, to ensure the success of the school-to-career/work-based learning program.
• Collaborates with staff and students to establish advanced training opportunities both on and off campus.
• Generates work site opportunities that best match the training capabilities and needs of trainees with employers' requirements, developing and maintaining copies of WBL MOUs with employers prior to students participating in training at each site, which includes mutual expectations and requirements, and ensures employer feedback on skills obtained or strengthened, and feedback on remediation needed.
• Coordinates with the Center Safety Officer to inspect each prospective WBL for safety and appropriateness prior to students being assigned for training.
• Serves as a guest speaker on and off campus to promote the School to Career program.
• Serves as a liaison between the Center and various work sites.
• Serves as a liaison with the Career Development Departments to monitor the coordination of academic and vocational training and work site learning.
• Schedules and transports trainees to work sites as needed.
• Makes visits to work sites to monitor trainee progress.
• Counsels trainees on their evaluations.
• Serves as a substitute teacher to allow vocational instructors to visit work sites periodically.
• Sets and transports trainees to work sites as needed.
• Submits all required reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Associate degree and two years’ experience in marketing, sales, or counseling related areas.
• PREFERRED: Bachelor’s degree or four years professional experience working with youth.
• Two years’ experience in marketing, sales, or counseling related areas.
• Knowledge: Ability to effectively communicate with and relate to trainees. Good understanding of the local community and employer base. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organizational and marketing skills.
• Must possess a valid state driver’s license.