Outreach Coordinator
About The Position
The Outreach Coordinator leads and coordinates program outreach and recruitment activities to directly enroll participants. The role helps participants access community resources and contributes to a team delivering employment, training, emergency, support, advocacy, and referral services. The coordinator recruits and enrolls clients, supports their participation in training and employment opportunities, and coordinates case management and referrals. The position also develops and delivers outreach information sessions and job-readiness training, coordinates training for staff and participants, and works with employers, agency representatives, and community groups to identify employment trends and facilitate placement opportunities. The role requires travel to participant communities, routine driving, flexible hours that may include nights and weekends, and work indoors and outdoors.
Requirements
- Up to three years of training and/or work experience in job training and employment or another relevant area.
- Knowledge and experience with particular emphasis on rural, unemployed, previously incarcerated, high school dropout, and farmworker populations.
- Working knowledge of computers and record keeping.
- Automobile, driver’s license, and insurance are required.
- Some lifting is required.
Responsibilities
- Acquire full knowledge of PathStone services, including eligibility criteria.
- Maintain and monitor complete and accurate participant records and files.
- Compile and submit timely reports on outreach activities.
- Recruit and enroll clients for training and employment opportunities, and assist and support them in using those opportunities.
- Provide updates on training and employment participants in case-management records and meetings.
- Analyze and interpret participant assessment results.
- Synthesize labor market information, participant assessment results, and employment barriers to develop employment and training plans of action.
- Assist in development area.
- Disseminate program information to employers and service agencies.
- Coordinate case management to ensure goals and objectives are met.
- Travel to areas where participants are located to inform, recruit, and enroll individuals.
- Screen participants to assess and clarify alignment between individual and program goals and objectives.
- Ensure participants are eligible before enrollment in Outreach.
- Initiate development of written individual client employability plans.
- Collaborate with agency representatives, community groups, and area employers to identify employment trends and demands and facilitate referrals.
- Ensure participants receive training and employment services within ten days of Outreach enrollment and meet assigned program goals.
- Attend assigned conferences, seminars, and classes to maintain and upgrade skills.
- Enhance personal knowledge, skills, and abilities, and seek and act upon performance feedback.
- Make appropriate corrections and additions to ensure an accurate Outreach count.
- Establish an emergency and supportive-services network.
- Review and coordinate the completeness of enrollment and termination paperwork for Outreach participants.
- Review monthly Management Information System reports for accuracy.
- Market training programs and develop placement opportunities for job-ready participants.
- Develop, organize, and conduct outreach information sessions for potential participants and community members.
- Coordinate outreach among diverse programs to maximize community impact.
- Develop and conduct job-readiness training.
- Coordinate and develop training for Outreach staff and participants.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
