Talent Development Specialist (800017)

Equus•Perris, CA

1h•Onsite

About The Position

The company helps job seekers and career changers prepare for and advance in careers within sustainable, high-growth, high-demand industries. They provide comprehensive workforce solutions through committed and well-trained professionals at integrated career centers, sector-focused centers, and community and partner sites. The Talent Development Specialist manages a caseload of participants, providing counseling and mentoring, assessing their competencies, work history, and skills to identify employment challenges and help them find solutions. The role involves conducting regular individual meetings for job search, education, job retention, and readiness, and creating individualized employment plans. The specialist is responsible for maintaining information on local resources and employers, ensuring participant accountability, tracking employment retention, and notifying government agencies of employment changes. They also maintain periodic contact with participants to address job retention/advancement, provide information on training and job opportunities, and monitor progress towards self-sufficiency throughout the program cycle. Key aspects include preparing and maintaining accurate participant files, providing case management focused on employment leading to self-sufficiency, and facilitating access to training, education, and employment services. The role also involves working with diverse cultural, linguistic, educational, and economic backgrounds in a classroom setting, coordinating instruction, improving job readiness scores, introducing various tools, ensuring assignment completion, conducting follow-up outreach, and maintaining student assessments. Equus Workforce Solutions is a leading provider of workforce development services in North America, focusing on the development, design, and delivery of demand-driven workforce solutions. The company offers extensive learning opportunities and networking programs, aiming to make a lasting impact on the lives of others. Equus is committed to diversity, providing an inclusive, fair, and respectful work environment, and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Requirements

Related Associate degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent work experience
Related work experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Demonstrated customer service skills
Familiarity with the communities being served, with knowledge and understanding of local needs and resources

Nice To Haves

One to three years’ experience in workforce development or related programs

Responsibilities

Manages a caseload of participants and provides counseling and mentoring
Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills, and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions
Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness
Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals
Maintains information about area resources and employers
Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals
Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment
Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues
Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement
Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts
Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued
Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency
Facilitates customer access to training, education, and to employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level.
Display the ability to work with a variety of cultures, languages, educational and economic backgrounds in a classroom setting
Always coordinate individual instruction in an orderly and professional manner
Improve the job readiness score of students in workshops and deliver a pipeline of work ready customers to staff
Introduce Company and other tools in the classroom (Resume-Pro, Company Academy, General Education Diploma Academy, Money-Skill, Project Chief Executive Officer)
Ensure that individual participants complete and turn in assignments as scheduled
Conduct follow-up outreach to students not engaged in classroom activities and document efforts in program issues systems
Maintain student's assessments in files and student database
Work well in teams, business customers and other staff
Able to communicate effectively to both oral and written
Additional duties as assigned