Job Summary: 

Work to help Project HOME residents and Teen program participants achieve career and education goals, supporting their overall well-being, as part of Project HOME’s effort to end homelessness in Philadelphia through Opportunities for Employment. Support residents who often have histories of homelessness, incarceration, substance abuse, and mental disorder achieve employment using an approach aligned with the individual placement and support (IPS) model. An approach that is zero exclusion, individually tailored, rapid, focused on living wage employment, connects participants with financial guidance, and provides ongoing support for participants and employer partners. Employment Specialist rotates between four (4) Project HOME sites during the week (one per day).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide employment services case management for Project HOME residents select residential sites. Employment Specialist has office hours at four (4) sites including the HLCCTL. Employment Specialist will only occasionally be required to travel between sites.
• Develop and maintain relationships with employer and training partners, including coordinating presentations.
• Promote and support enrollment into training leading to careers paying a living wage to residents and participants in the Teen program who not intending to purse a college degree.
• Develop and deliver career skills instruction to teens and Young Adults as standalone workshops.
• Occasionally travel within Philadelphia for meetings and events at other Project HOME sites and partner organizations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human services (e.g. Bachelor of Social Work) or four (4) years of equivalent experience.
• One (1) year of experience helping persons with barriers to employment, such histories of homelessness, incarceration, substance abuse, and mental disorder, achieve and retain new employment paying a living wage.
• High social-emotional intelligence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Enthusiastic and welcoming facilitator.
• Attentive to detail.
• Ability to work independently.
• Proficient in using computers including Microsoft Office and email.

Physical requirements

• Ability to remain sedentary.
• Ability to move around a classroom.

Project HOME provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Project HOME prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive statement of the duties and responsibilities of the job nor does it constitute a written or implied contract.