# Career Coach - Cass County

**Company:** [Diversified Services Network, Inc.](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/dkdrpy1Um98xx7gHkUjJ68.md)
**Location:** Logansport, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

Diversified Services Network Inc. is seeking a Career Coach to work on a long-term project. This will serve Cass County in Logansport, IN.

**Essential Job Responsibilities:** 

-   Manages a caseload of participants and provides work readiness counseling and mentoring
-   Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions
-   Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness
-   Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals
-   Maintains information about area resources and employers
-   Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals
-   Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment
-   Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues
-   Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement
-   Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts
-   Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued
-   Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency
-   Facilitates customer access to training, education, and employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level

## Requirements

**Qualifications/Education:**

-   Associate’s degree from an accredited university or college, or 12 months of related work experience
-   Excellent verbal and written communication skills
-   Demonstrated customer service skills
-   Familiarity with the communities being served, with knowledge and understanding of local needs and resources
-   One to three years’ experience in workforce development or related programs preferred
-   Frequent local travel required

\*Hourly rate: $18.42-$20.00