Community Employment Specialist

** Agency
* * Dept of Health and Human Services
** Division
* * Blind Services
** Job Classification Title
** Community Employment Program Specialist (S)
** Position Number
**** Grade
* * NC06

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is one of the largest, most complex agencies in the state, and has approximately 17,000 employees. It is responsible for ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of all North Carolinians, providing human service needs for special populations including individuals who are deaf, blind, developmentally disabled, and mentally ill, and helping poor North Carolinians achieve economic independence.
** Description of Work
** This position will provide direct services to the students who are ages 14 and above. These services will include employment planning, training selection, job shadowing, job placement, job seeking skills training, job coaching, and job follow-up services. This individual will know the employers in the communities and be able to communicate with them about the students as prospective employees.
Job responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
-Managing work experiences for young people with a disability  
-Job coaching by learning a job a consumer has been hired to do, teaching the consumer, making any adjustments needed  due to a disability or visual impairment for work task success.  
-Recommends environmental and/or job modifications, accommodations related to individual work tasks, using the latest and  most beneficial technology and will ensure client training in operation of technology.  - Direct and regular contact with community and business leaders in developing work experience and job placement opportunities in assignment.  - Coordinate with DSB staff, school personnel and individual family members.  - Work directly and primarily with the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor – Transition assigned to the area.
** Knowledge

Skills and Abilities

/Management Preferences
**** Salary Grade Range $34,270 - $59,973
**** Recruitment Range $34,270 - $48,362
**** Position is eligible for a hybrid-teleworking schedule to include weekly onsite work hours  
** Candidates now meet the minimum qualifications of a position if they meet the minimum education and experience listed on the vacancy announcement.

The Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)/ Management Preferences are not required. Applicants who possess the following skills are preferred:
* Knowledge of or experience in case management.
* Knowledge of or experience working with a team of professionals to help a client meet a goal.
* Experience with working with youth in transition.
** This position will close at 11:59 p.m. the night before the end date.
**** This position is funded in part through Federal Funds
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* Physical Requirements:

** Light work:
Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. The use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work. Note this position requires spending time walking through different job sites, high schools, and touring college campuses.
** About the NC Division of Services for the Blind (DSB):
** The Division of Services for the Blind provides services to people who are visually impaired, blind and deaf- blind to help them reach their goals of independence and employment.
** Compensation & Benefits:
** The State of North Carolina offers excellent comprehensive benefits.  Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NCFlex program (numerous high-quality, low-cost benefits on a pre-tax basis).  Employees also receive paid vacation, sick, and community service leave.  In addition, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees.
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** Supplemental and Contact Information
** The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer that embraces an Employment First philosophy, which consists of complying…