Employment Specialist

Are you driven to make a difference in the lives of others? Do you have a passion for helping people overcome challenges and unlock their potential?

Career Path Services is looking for an Employment Specialist in Tri Cities, WA, to join our team, to be an ambassador of hope. You’ll help clients feel comfortable and confident while delivering comprehensive coaching, employment training, job placement, goal setting, and support the building of skills necessary for the complex task of moving out of poverty. Successful Employment Specialists are dedicated to delivering personalized support services to people and businesses in need, supporting adults in overcoming barriers, building job readiness skills, and securing employment that leads to long‑term career growth.

You’ll manage a caseload, provide individualized coaching and training, and connect participants with employers and community resources to help them succeed in the workplace. This role is a great fit for someone who is empathetic, resourceful, and skilled at guiding people through challenges with patience and respect. Strong organization, communication, and problem‑solving skills will help you thrive as you empower adults to reach their employment goals.

If this sounds like you then join us as we break the spirit of poverty through the dignity of work!

This position will be full time and will be in‑person in our offices at Work Source Columbia Basin in Kennewick, WA.

Career Path Services values the power of experience and perspective, and endeavors to build upon this vital strength. We are passionate about building and sustaining a working environment of belonging for all of our staff and customers. We believe every member on our team enriches our culture by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions.

We are committed to attracting, recruiting, retaining and advancing an engaged team that is responsive to the needs of our diverse clients.

• Initial Engagement:
  Reach and invite customers to apply for services at quantities and qualities that lead to exceeding enrollment goals and produces program outcomes. Conduct employer and participant outreach and recruitment, orientation and eligibility determination, initial assessment, and service plan development.
• Individualized Career and Training Services:
  Responsible for supervising a caseload of participants by providing comprehensive caseload management and comprehensive case management, job readiness training, job search assistance (career coaching, labor market information, skills assessments and workshops, resume and interviewing coaching), job retention services, English language acquisition, job skills training, and job placement.
• Program Completion and Transition Strategies:
  Ensure appropriate timelines and lengths of participation, helps the participant achieve their customer service plan including job placement, and transition planning.
• Data Entry:
  Conduct timely, accurate and complete data input for registrations and enrollments, status changes, exits/terminations and post exit MIS in the division’s operating system.
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  Coaching:
  
  Provide initial and comprehensive services, interviewing, assessing customers to determine work readiness/employability, offering information about service/training options and community‑based resources, engaging seekers into appropriate pathway services suited to their individual needs and/or facilitating hand off to one‑on‑one services provided by program staff.
• Referral Services:
  Works to reduce wait time, eliminate lines and connect job seekers to value added services as quickly as possible, tracks customer activity.
• Networking & Communication:
  Develop, expand, and maintain working relationships with partners, employers, and fund sources that achieve desired outcomes by identifying needs, developing solutions, establishing goals, and executing plans. Timely, consistent, and professional communication is essential to the success of the program.

• Ability to work with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) job seekers.
• Follow highly…