Counselor - Veteran Representative

Position: Employment Counselor - Veteran Representative
The Employment Counselor - Veteran Representative provides intensive services and facilitates placements to meet the employment and training needs of veterans - prioritizing service to special disabled veterans, other disabled veterans, and other categories of veterans, in accordance with priorities determined by the Secretary of Labor (Secretary). Review and analyze Career Center Veterans information through records, tests, interviews and observations.

Advise clients on such matters as creating employment plans and developing job search techniques. Confer with agency staff and others on clients' behalf; conduct counseling interviews; respond to inquiries regarding eligibility for/benefits of procedures related to various Career Center programs; act as liaisons to associated public and private service organizations; compile educational and other information as needed and per

form related duties as required.

The incumbent will consistently strive to represent the values of Mass Hire South Shore Career Center and EOLWD:

• Collaboration - Power of partnership and streamlined integration of services to achieve effective and timely results for our customers
• Respect - Commit to understanding and valuing the diverse, unique requirements and professional goals of the businesses and people we serve
• Reliability - Create trust and reliability by consistently delivering high quality professional services at each location and at every interaction.
• Ingenuity - Leverage flexibility, expertise and knowledge to successfully meet our mission, regardless of new challenges and circumstances that may arise.

Duties Include:

• Review and analyze Career Center veteran information obtained through interviews, records, tests, and observation in order to determine employment and training interests, vocational aptitudes and abilities, barriers to employment, and eligibility for agency services and programs and to make appropriate recommendations.
• Compile occupational, educational, and other pertinent information to assist Career Center veterans in determining vocational and educational interests and goals.
• Conduct counseling interviews with veterans, prioritizing service to special disabled veterans, other disabled veterans, and other categories of veterans in accordance with priorities determined by the Secretary of Labor (Secretary); who have substantial and/or significant barriers to employment to (a) assess the type and extent of the barriers and accessibility to available resources; (b) guide and motivate clients and encourage new approaches to job seeking;
  
  and (c) assist clients in achieving occupational, vocational and/or training goals based on their needs and the services available,(d) coordinate supportive services.
• Advise veterans on such matters as job search techniques and processes, transitioning their skill from the military to the civilian sector, ways of dealing with barriers to employment, and specific courses of action to prepare for training and employment opportunities.
• Answer inquiries from veterans and other interested parties concerning agency programs and services:
• eligibility requirements, benefits of using them, procedures for enrolling, etc. Assist Veterans in the preparation of agency forms.
• Serve as liaison to private and other public organizations to promote Career Center programs and services, to exchange information, and to develop shared resources that will enhance services to veterans.
• Consult and coordinate with other appropriate representatives of federal, state and local programs for the purposes of developing maximum linkages to promote opportunities and provide maximum employment assistance to veterans.
• Work with Career center staff to develop and promote apprenticeship and other On-The-Job training positions for veterans.
• Develop employment and training opportunities for veterans through contacts with employers;
  Provide appropriate assistance to community based groups and organizations and appropriate grantees under other federal and federally funded employment and training programs (including Title IV-C of the Job Training Partnership Act) in providing services to veterans.
• Provide appropriate assistance to other Career Center staff with responsibility for veterans in carrying out their responsibilities.
• Conduct outreach activities with the purpose of locating candidates who could benefit from intensive services and market these services to potential clients in programs and places such as the following:

VR&E, HVRP, Homeless shelters

VA hospitals and Vet Centers

Civic and service organizations

Partners through WIA

State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies Other Service Providers

• Refer veterans to appropriate training and employment opportunities; follow up on referrals; update client information and input data via electronic information systems.
• Administer and interpret various Career Center tests.
• Develop and conduct Veteran specific job search workshops.

THIS IS A VETERAN FUNDED POSITION. Appointment to this position must…