Match Grant Specialist - 2024766

1 Week ago • 1 Years +

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About the job:
World Relief seeks a Match Grant Specialist to provide critical services and counsel to refugees and other eligible persons as they navigate initial employment opportunities or seek career advancement. This role is integral to helping clients achieve economic self-sufficiency by preparing them for employment, connecting them with job opportunities, and guiding them in their career development. Responsibilities include building relationships with new employers, researching job opportunities beyond entry-level positions, identifying vocational training options, guiding clients in career paths, attending employment training, maintaining regular communication with clients, ensuring compliance with RSS Employment Guidelines, updating employment information in the ClientTrack database, keeping detailed and accurate case notes, assisting clients in developing resumes and applications, attending scheduled meetings, providing transportation for clients, fostering relationships with employers, equipping clients to conduct independent job searches, supporting clients in job retention and career advancement, referring clients to additional programs and services, conducting initial employment orientation sessions, and transporting clients to job interviews.
Must have:
  • Mature and personal Christian faith
  • Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
  • Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule
  • Bachelor’s degree or at least one year of experience in an office environment
  • Valid Driver’s License and a good driving record
Good to have:
  • Fluency in an additional language such as Spanish, French, Arabic, Swahili, Lingala, Farsi, Dari, or Pashto
Perks:
  • Competitive benefits package
  • Employee discount program
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
 
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
 
 
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
 

POSITION SUMMARY:

World Relief seeks a Match Grant Specialist to provide critical services and counsel to refugees and other eligible persons as they navigate initial employment opportunities or seek career advancement. This role is integral to helping clients achieve economic self-sufficiency by preparing them for employment, connecting them with job opportunities, and guiding them in their career development.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Build relationships with new employers to advocate for the hiring of clients.
    • Research job opportunities beyond entry-level positions and identify vocational training options.
    • Guide clients in career paths to achieve their professional goals.
    • Attend employment training to learn best practices for client employment support.
    • Maintain regular communication with clients through home visits, phone calls, and office visits.
    • Ensure compliance with RSS Employment Guidelines by monitoring client files and documentation.
    • Update employment information in the ClientTrack database weekly.
    • Keep detailed and accurate case notes for all client interactions. Assist clients in developing resumes, letters of recommendation, and job applications.
    • Attend scheduled meetings and maintain regular office hours.
    • Provide transportation for clients to interviews, orientations, and employment as needed.
    • Assist clients with employment forms, drug screening tests, and obtaining state documentation.
    • Foster relationships with employers and communicate issues back to the Program Manager.
    • Equip clients to conduct independent job searches.
    • Support clients in job retention and career advancement as needed.
    • Refer clients to additional programs and services as appropriate.
    • Conduct initial employment orientation sessions for refugees, updating content as needed.
    • Transport clients to job interviews.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

    • Mature and personal Christian faith
    • Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
    • Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
    • Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
    • Fluency in an additional language such as Spanish, French, Arabic, Swahili, Lingala, Farsi, Dari, or Pashto is preferred.
    • Ability to work a flexible schedule, including occasional early mornings, evenings, and weekends.
    • Bachelor’s degree or at least one year of experience in an office environment.
    • Valid Driver’s License and a good driving record.
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time and part-time employees.
 
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
 
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
 
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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