CareerCenter Consultant - Training Fund Program - Statewide

State of Maine • Springvale, ME

9d • $21 - $29

About The Position

If you want to make a difference for Maine businesses and workers, enjoy building something new, have an interest in workforce development, and attention for details then this position is for you! The successful candidate will coordinate services with workforce partners, track outcomes, and evaluate processes to identify continuous improvement opportunities. They will determine eligibility and enroll participants in the Defense and Manufacturing Training Fund program for employers to upskill new and incumbent workers to: upgrade occupational skills and essential work competencies, attain credentials, promote career pathway advancement and improve workforce retention

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication
• Ability to use independent judgment in handling work assignments, priorities, and schedules
• Experience with database management and data entry
• Experience using Microsoft Office suite and virtual communications platforms such as MS Teams and Zoom
• AND Ability to work independently while following programmatic protocols and enhancing the current standard operating procedures to adapt to changes
• 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 to own development including learning necessary job knowledge and associated laws, rules, and policies. Identifies and participates in learning opportunities. Comply 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

• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with businesses/employers and representative agencies.
• Experience in: manufacturing or defense sectors, payment and invoice processes, and grant management.

Responsibilities

• Administer, with high level of accuracy, all aspects of program data management regarding program registration, enrollment, outcomes, and follow-up.
• Coordinate with other state agency partner programs to create seamless employer experiences.
• Maintain organizational systems to follow up with employers and individuals enrolled in training.
• Track and coordinate program activities, including program enrollment , training payment authorizations and reimbursement processing.
• Monitor service delivery in order to ensure compliance with program specifications and requirements.
• Analyze and report on program performance outcomes, including outreach to defense/manufacturing employer contacts to determine worker/employee training outcomes.

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. Use this chart to find the premium costs for you and your family, including the percentage of dependent coverage paid by the State.
• 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 13.29% of the employee's pay towards the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS) for MSEA, or 18.09% 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: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees