Workforce Liaison (TEMPORARY) - Hayward

Workforce Liaison (Temporary), Hayward 
 
Rubicon transforms communities by equipping low-income East Bay residents to break the cycle of poverty. We believe community transformation is best accomplished when led by residents themselves, and our program offers participants the opportunity to become change agents in their community. By strengthening their own financial, social and health situation, participants emerge ready to act as leaders in community and civic life. Their personal successes will have a ripple effect, benefiting their family and broader community.
 
This is a full-time, TEMPORARY - 8 months non-exempt position reporting to the Business Service manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform workforce liaison duties as assigned under the DAEI (DOR/AJCC Collaboration) project, providing workforce development career services to individuals with disabilities, including outreach, recruitment, and reporting.
• Coordinate services with partnering agencies, including the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR), employers, and other workforce development partners, through case conferencing and regular communication to support participants toward successful employment placement.
• This position requires the ability to serve as a Disability Benefits/Work Incentives Planner, providing participants with guidance on how employment and earnings may affect SSI/SSDI and other public benefits.
• Assist businesses by identifying and presenting qualified participants to them. Deliver quality employer/customer services before, during, and after placement, including sharing timely employment information and resources with participants and staff.
• Develop work experience opportunities for participants by building business and community partner relationships. Partnerships may include paid/unpaid experiential learning opportunities such as transitional employment, subsidized on-the-job training, community service/volunteer work, internships, immediate employment opportunities, and long-term career-oriented employment at or above the self-sufficiency standard.
• Facilitate employment readiness workshops, discussion groups and/or classes to assist job seekers with the development of individualized job search strategies as needed.
• This position requires the incumbent to travel to different business throughout the Bay Area; therefore, proof of a valid driver’s license and current auto insurance, and an acceptable Motor Vehicle Report are required. 
• Provide ongoing job retention support to both participants and employers for one-year post placement into unsubsidized employment and document and report progress per agency standards

COMPETENCIES

• Recruiting, job placement, or sales/business development experience and expertise with a results orientation; candidates will be expected to demonstrate proof of having developed effective outreach strategies, ease and success with making cold calls and presentations, and using effective closing techniques.
• Teamwork, interpersonal flexibility, relationship-building, relationships management, coaching and excellent communication and presentation skills, oral and written. 
• Group facilitation or training experience. 
• Technology; Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and experience using client record management systems and/or databases.
• Cultural Responsiveness and alignment with our values and commitment to equity and inclusion
• If you don’t currently possess our organizational core competencies of Trauma-Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, and Coaching, you are expected to participate in the necessary training Rubicon provides
• Ability to obtain the Work Incentives Practitioner Credential (WIP-C) for benefit/incentive planning within six (6) months of hire; maintaining this certification is required to retain employment in this position.
• Experience working with individuals with a disability and employment services and knowledge of WIOA Workforce Innovative Opportunity Act programming is highly desirable.

COMPENSATION

• $23-27 per hour
• Medical, Dental and Vision health plans. Kaiser and Sutter Health options.
• Paid vacation and sick leave, 13 paid holidays.
• 4 days paid restorative holiday between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Employer sponsored retirement plan.

About Rubicon
An $18M non-profit Rubicon, provides direct services at eight locations in Alameda and Contra Costa counties and operates a growing commercial landscape social enterprise program that is a leader in sustainable practices. Rubicon transforms East Bay communities by equipping people to break the cycle of poverty. Recognized as a national leader in workforce development, Rubicon provides individualized one-on-one career advising, job search support, financial education, wellness and legal services, to very low-income people who face significant barriers to achieving economic mobility.
Rubicon is a 2022 Great Place to Work, on a journey towards becoming a high-road employer and an anti-racist organization. We are committed to systems change and advocacy through efforts like expanding and deepening Employee Resource Groups; the launch of an internal Racial Justice Task Force; and implementation of talent and culture supports that acknowledge and facilitate healing from the direct and indirect effects of racial trauma.
Rubicon actively recruits staff members with a diversity of culture, thought, and lived experiences who are not only highly skilled, but who consistently demonstrate a commitment to our vision of an East Bay without poverty and are passionate about this work.
Rubicon is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veteran Friendly Employer. We value diversity of culture, thought, and lived experiences. We seek talented, qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, conviction history, uniform service membership/veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical conditions, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression regardless of physical gender, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws
 Rubicon uses E-Verify to validate the eligibility of our new employees to work legally in the United States.