Employment Specialist #2025606

World Relief • Winston-Salem, NC

5d • $23 - $24 • Hybrid

About The Position

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

The Employment Specialist plays a key role in empowering newly arrived refugees as they begin building their lives and careers in the community. A central responsibility of this role is working closely with local employers to develop strong, ongoing partnerships that create meaningful employment pathways for clients. This position enrolls clients into employment services, prepares them for job opportunities through coaching and support, coordinates placements, conducts follow‑up to support long‑term success, maintains accurate documentation and data entry, contributes to grant reporting, and supports additional program needs as assigned.

Hybrid schedule: Mon-Thurs in office; Friday remote

Requirements

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Association of Evangelicals' For the Health of The Nation document
• The applicant must have a confident "salesman" attitude and ability to easily network.
• Bilingual (spanish, arabic, swahili, dari)
• experience in cross-cultural program
• problem solving skills
• Valid license, access to reliable vehicle and clean driving record

Nice To Haves

• social work background
• experience in cross-cultural settings.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial employment orientations for refugees.
• Enroll clients into the NC Refugee Support Services Program.
• Assess clients’ skills, work history, and experience to develop individualized employment plans with reasonable goals and strategies that lead to successful employment.
• Ensure services that strengthen clients’ motivation and capacity to become self‑supporting are delivered in a planned, effective, and timely manner.
• Communicate employment‑related information, including orientation to “Working in America,” workplace norms, and employer expectations
• Work closely with local employers to build strong, ongoing partnerships that expand employment opportunities for clients.
• Provide job counseling and assist clients in developing high‑quality resumes, applications, and interview skills.
• Teach and/or coordinate the Vocational Skills Training Class and other employment‑related classes using a prepared curriculum.
• Schedule clients for weekly Vocational Skills Training and arrange interpreters when needed.
• Prepare clients for job placement by connecting them with appropriate employment opportunities that match their skills and goals.
• Provide follow‑up, coaching, and case management to support clients after job placement, ensuring long‑term job retention and stability.

Benefits

• World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time, Regular, employees.
• World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.

What This Job Offers

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