Description
The Economic Empowerment program assists refugees to become economically self-sufficient by placing humanitarian immigrants in entry-level work in the United States. The goal of the program is to help clients reduce barriers to self-sufficiency and employment and assist clients in securing full-time jobs.
Responsibilities:
- Assess new clients by creating their individual initial employment plan.
- Create individualized resumes and cover letters, assist with finding job leads, and complete job applications with clients.
- Strategically research potential employer partners and conduct outreach.
- Regularly track service provision through electronic data entry and organize required client documentation.
- Manage distribution and tracking of in-kind donations to clients.
- Other duties assigned by the employment team.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain experience conducting employment assessments.
- Gain insight into immigrant workforce programs.
- Learn how to communicate effectively in a global environment, including utilizing interpreters.
- Acquire knowledge of programs and public benefits available to humanitarian immigrants.
- Learn how to effectively create resumes and job search for clients.
- Gain skills in strategic research and outreach strategies.
- Learn reporting requirements for resettlement agencies and how capturing this data improves services.
Qualifications:
- Current undergraduate, graduate student or less than 12 months out of school.
- Minimum 24 hours per week, three-month commitment and three full working days per week; full-time 32-40 hours per week highly preferred.
- Strong digital literacy skills and the ability to learn new software and tasks.
- Organized and attentive to detail.
- Ability to work independently and multi-task.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Works well in a fast-paced environment and adapts quickly to change.
- Interest in working with refugee and humanitarian populations.
- Fluency in Dari, Pashto, Spanish, Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda, Tigrinya, Amharic or other languages frequently spoken by the client base is a plus.
- Access to an insured vehicle preferred, but not required.