Career Center Consultant - Part-Time - Lewiston

Department of Labor • Lewiston, ME

22d • $21 - $29

About The Position

If you are a current State of Maine employee, you must complete your application through the internal application process (Find Jobs Report). Please apply using your PRISM account. If you are on Seasonal Leave and do not have access to PRISM, contact your local Human Resources representative for application information. Department of Labor - Bureau of Employment Services Job Class Code: 0723 Grade: 20/Professional & Technical Salary: $20.68-$28.88/Hour Location: Lewiston Opening Date: January 28, 2026 Closing Date: February 12, 2026 Do you have a passion for helping people, enjoy working one-on-one with people, and are you customer service-focused? If so, this may be the opportunity for you! CareerCenter Consultants provide employment services to individuals and employers/businesses. Responsibilities include interviewing, assessing needs, and guiding customers in making career, education, and training decisions, determining eligibility, referring customers to programs, services, and employment opportunities, managing caseloads of customers participating in education and training programs, facilitating employment and training-related workshops, and delivering group presentations. Work will also include providing business services to Maine employers, including recruitment and training assistance. The current focus of this position is outreach to businesses and/or underserved populations in southern Maine. The work will involve significant local and regional travel.

Requirements

• Any combination of education and/or work experience that demonstrates competency in: Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively working with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences, effectively communicates and works with coworkers as team members.
• Customer/Quality Skills: Anticipates, monitors, and meets the needs of customers and responds to them in an effective, appropriate manner. Demonstrates commitment to identifying customers’ apparent and underlying needs and continually seeks to provide the highest quality service and product to all customers.
• Accountability Skills: Holds self accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives and sets priorities. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Accountable for own development, including learning necessary job knowledge and associated laws, rules, and policies. Identifies and participates in learning opportunities. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Planning/Organization Skills: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals for self and strategies to achieve them. Using flexibility and resiliency skills, appropriately and effectively adjusts work, plans and priorities to changing circumstances. Monitors own progress and evaluates outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated experience serving individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and virtual service platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams
• Experience with database entry, management, and information retrieval
• Familiarity with labor market information to guide job seekers in making informed career decisions

Responsibilities

• Interviewing, assessing needs, and guiding customers in making career, education, and training decisions
• Determining eligibility, referring customers to programs, services, and employment opportunities
• Managing caseloads of customers participating in education and training programs
• Facilitating employment and training-related workshops
• Providing business services to Maine employers, including recruitment and training assistance

Benefits

• Work-Life Fit – Rest is essential. Take time for yourself using 13 paid holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and 3+ weeks of vacation leave annually. Vacation leave accrual increases with years of service, and overtime-exempt employees receive personal leave.
• Health Insurance Coverage – The State of Maine pays 85%-95% of employee-only premiums ($11,196.96 - $12,514.32 annual value), depending on salary.
• Dental Insurance – The State of Maine pays 100% of employee-only dental premiums ($387.92 annual value).
• Retirement Plan – The State contributes the equivalent of 14.11% of the employee's pay towards the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS) for MSEA, or 18.91% for Confidential employees.
• State employees are eligible for an extensive and highly competitive benefits package , covering many aspects of wellness. Learn about additional wellness benefits for State employees from the Office of Employee Health and Wellness .

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed