Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator for the California Violence Intervention & Prevention Project (CalVIP)

The Project Coordinator for the California Violence Intervention & Prevention Project (CalVIP) is responsible for providing direct services and support for project participants. This position liaises with existing Case Managers (referral partners), educational partners and prospective employers to support and augment the education-to-employment pathway for CalVIP participants. Project Coordinators provide active advocacy, wrap-around and relational credibility to participants with former criminal-justice involvement who are pursuing education-to-employment pathways.

Essential Duties:

• Provide trauma-informed, participant-centered case management of CalVIP participants.
• Cultivates relationships with project participants to cultivate trust, build and maintain relationships, and support from enrollment through discharge/program completion.
• Guides participants through all available services including vocational training, work readiness training, including advocacy and sourcing for needed services (if available through CalVIP project).
• Maintain active and regular contact with participants to gather data about participants' needs and performance outcomes.
• May provide training that reduce barriers to programs completion.
• Provides consistent case management support.
• Supports participants to overcome historical barriers to employment, including acquisition of educational credentials, transportation, work-related clothing and tools, record expungement, physical/health issues, technological challenges, and/or child support payments.
• Collaboratively constructs personal development plans identifying needed additional resources and makes appropriate referrals.
• Works with participants to monitor progress towards goals, identify and address challenges, and provide ongoing support.
• May liaise with existing Case Managers or referral partner to ensure a warm hand-off into the CalVIP project.
• May liaise with CalVIP Finance Specialist or Project Director to ensure eligibility, fund availability, or fund utilization.
• May liaise with External Evaluator to maintain or acquire data points, coordinate interviews, or assess project satisfaction.
• Develop relationships with potential employer organizations within Los Angeles community that may hire certified Amity Works students and graduates.
• Coordinate intake, and eligibility and aptitude/interest assessment of prospective CalVIP participants.
• Provide participants with job readiness services, including mock interviewing, coaching regarding appropriate disclosure of part justice involvement or parole status to potential employers.
• Prepare, review and update individual service plans (ISP) for participants assigned to caseload.
• Monitor participants' progress relative to their ISP through all phases of the program.
• Document all progress and services provided in the case files, including relevant employment data.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with Project Director, BSCC liaisons, education and employer partners.
• Provide employment services including resume, writing, mock interviews, time management, appropriate and prosocial workplace relationships and following instructions.
• Demonstrates cultural competency, community advocacy and professionalism in representing the Amity Foundation and its project to the community.
• Responds positively to changing demands and priorities, recognizing scope of authority and decision-making processes within a team-oriented framework.
• Participates in training provided by BCSS and/or External Evaluation team (when applicable).
• Participate in in-service training on the background and purpose of the CalVIP Project and all relevant policies and procedures.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in social sciences or possess a high school diploma or its equivalent AND two (2) years of experience as a job developer or similar position.

Preferred:

• A minimum of 1 year of experience in a job development or similar position
• Basic knowledge and experience with the criminal record expungement process.
• Lived experience with incarceration, addiction, poverty, foster care, or other systems involvement considered an asset.

Skills/Abilities:

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to effectively and persuasively represent Amity Foundation and the CalVIP project to diverse stakeholders, including potential employers, educational partners, and the public.
• Ability to integrate, disseminate, and implement information and/or procedures changes as indicated by the contract, project leadership and/or the External Evaluation team.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team and participants.
• Excellent public speaking, facilitation and 1:1 communication skill.
• Excellent interpersonal, written communications and typing skills

Work Environment:

• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends when necessary.
• Ability to travel as needed.

ADA Information:

Physical Requirements:

• Faculty must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Frequently required to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time.
• Frequently sitting and typing for extended periods of time
• Occasionally required to reach, walk, climb, pull, push, grasp, stretch, stoop.
• Frequently required to talk, hear, see and use repetitive motions.
• Frequently able to communicate verbally and in written form.
• Frequently able to use all types of vision, such as close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception, to complete daily tasks.
• Required to wear comfortable and office appropriate clothes.

Mental Demands:

• Ability to change direction as priorities shift.
• Ability to thrive in an environment that requires one to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Ability to professionally work under pressure with difficult or temperamental students & faculty.
• Ability to handle mental and emotional stress related to the position.

Work conditions:

• Generally, in an indoor office setting.

Environment Conditions:

• The noise level in the work environment is moderate but can be loud.
• The temperature in the work environment is usually moderate to cool but can be cold or hot.

Travel:

• May travel locally as needed.

Note: This job description is intended to describe the general nature and work responsibilities of the position. It is not possible or desirable to commit every detailed aspect of each job to a written description. This job description and the duties of this position are subject to change, modification, and addition as deemed necessary by the company. Job descriptions alone cannot be used as an argument to refuse work assignments. Faculty are required to comply with supervisory instructions and perform other job duties, responsibilities and assignments required by company officials. This job description does not constitute an employment contract between the company and any employee. The job responsibilities of this position may include cross-training in other functions to ensure satisfactory operation.

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$70,000 - $75,000 a year