Veteran Peer Specialist
About The Position
As Veteran Peer Specialist, you will serve as the primary outreach, engagement, and peer support professional for Veterans Forward – Central Texas. Utilizing lived military experience and peer-to-peer engagement strategies, you will conduct community outreach, recruit eligible veterans, provide workforce navigation support, and connect participants to employment, training, supportive services, and community resources. You will play a critical role in achieving contract performance outcomes by helping veterans overcome barriers to employment, remain engaged in services, and successfully transition into meaningful employment and career pathways.
Requirements
- Lived military experience
- Peer-to-peer engagement strategies
Responsibilities
- Conduct community-based outreach activities to identify and recruit eligible veterans and military family members.
- Develop relationships with veteran-serving organizations, workforce centers, colleges, community agencies, faith-based organizations, and employers.
- Participate in outreach events, job fairs, stand downs, resource fairs, workshops, and community engagement activities.
- Conduct field outreach throughout assigned service areas, including rural and underserved communities.
- Utilize social media, phone, email, text messaging, and in-person outreach strategies to engage prospective participants.
- Represent Veterans Forward – Texas professionally in all community and stakeholder interactions.
- Establish trusting peer-to-peer relationships with veterans through shared military culture and experiences.
- Provide motivational support, encouragement, and mentorship throughout program participation.
- Assist participants in identifying employment goals, strengths, interests, and barriers to employment.
- Support participants in developing individualized employment and career plans.
- Maintain regular contact with participants to encourage continued engagement in services.
- Conduct follow-up outreach to participants who miss appointments or disengage from services.
- Connect participants to workforce development services, training opportunities, apprenticeships, and employment resources.
- Assist veterans in accessing supportive services including housing, transportation, healthcare, behavioral health, financial assistance, and benefits navigation.
- Coordinate referrals with Texas Workforce Solutions offices and community partners.
- Facilitate warm handoffs to partner agencies and supportive service providers.
- Assist participants in understanding eligibility requirements and completing enrollment documentation.
- Support veterans in accessing VA and non-VA benefits and resources.
- Accurately document outreach activities, participant interactions, referrals, services, and outcomes within required case management systems.
- Maintain timely and complete participant records consistent with TWC and organizational requirements.
- Collect and verify documentation necessary for enrollment, service delivery, performance tracking, and outcome reporting.
- Assisting management with contract reporting requirements, outreach metrics, participant outcomes, and performance measures.
Benefits
- Health insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Paid time off (Vacation, Sick, Floating)
- Retirement plan (403b)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Commuter Benefits
- Life/Accident insurance
- Short-term Disability Insurance
- Long-term Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
