Outreach & Recruitment Specialist - Career Centers

Job Description

Job Description

Description

The MassHire Career Centers connect qualified job seekers with employers, providing the tools and resources needed to start a career, increase skills or find a new job.  The Outreach and Recruitment Specialist connects with adult individuals, who are residing in Emergency Assistance shelters in the city of Boston, to understand their employment goals and ancillary training needs to reach their employment goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify a point of contact at each Emergency Assistance shelter located in the city of Boston through whom to engage individuals residing in each said shelter.
• Connect with individuals residing in each local Emergency Assistance shelter to identify the employment objective of each individual and the ancillary training(s) required to achieve the employment objective.
• Facilitate the development of a relationship between individuals residing in each local Emergency Assistance shelter and the MassHire Boston ABCD Career Center.
• Establish, in conjunction with the MassHire Boston ABCD Career Center Assistant Manager and other management staff, a consistent schedule of outreach to each local Emergency Assistance shelter.
• Develop, maintain, and update a roster of Emergency Assistance shelter residents to whom outreach has been conducted; provided that said roster shall also include the identification of each resident’s employment objective and ancillary training(s) which are needed for the residents to achieve their employment objective.
• Enroll each local Emergency Assistance shelter resident, who wishes to, as a member of the MassHire Boston ABCD Career Center.
• Work in tandem with staff members of the MassHire Boston ABCD Career Center, and any other ABCD staff, to facilitate access to career center and other workforce development services.
• Perform other related duties as assigned from time to time.

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