Career and Employment Specialist
Does the role of a Career and Employment Specialist sound interesting to you? Would you like to provide guidance and coaching to job seekers and young people to find the job of their dreams in the Ghanaian job market?
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently looking for a Volunteer Career& Employment Specialist to join our team!
JOB SUMMARY
Status: Part-time / Full-time
The role requires a unique ability to provide a person-directed career and employment counselling to job seekers to explore and plan their career pathways, job search, and self-marketing
JOB DUTIES
- Guide and assess service job seekers to identify their skills, strengths, personal characteristics, values, interests, readiness, barriers to success and priorities as they relate to obtaining and retaining employment.
- Guide job seekers to evaluate and clarify employment, training or career goals by exploring local labour market information, career resources, and education and training opportunities/resources.
- Integrate different career development theories, models and supports together with job seeker assessment(s) to enable the development of informed employment and support the action plan.
- Co-create individualized employment action plans that support each service user to become fully engaged and active in the counseling and job search process.
- Support service job seekers to be job ready by building relevant employability and life skills, development of coping skills to navigate change and transition, ensuring marketing tools are competitive and targeted, providing interview coaching, building job search skills and resilience.
- Assess the need for and make referrals for additional internal/external support needs such as vocational training
- Build referral networks with training facilities.
- Develop, implement and sustain a range of client outreach strategies and referral networks, which provide awareness of programming and generate consistent and ongoing service user referrals.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to service job seekers to build self-confidence, self-efficacy and ownership of their job search, marketing initiatives and employment outcomes.
- Remain current and responsive to labour market trends and job search strategies.
REQUIREMENTS QUALIFICATIONS
- Post-secondary diploma or degree in career counselling, adult education, human resources, sociology, social work or a related field.
- At least one (1) year of experience in employment and career advising working directly with individuals facing multiple barriers to employment.
- Experience and expertise in the most current effective job search strategies including cold calling, networking and social media.
- Strong presentation, interpersonal, organizational and facilitation skills
- Experience in intake and assessment and identification of job seeker needs and expectations
- Knowledge of and ability to integrate major career development theories/models, counselling/coaching skills and career exploration /assessments
- Ability to negotiate the challenges of linking person-directed career planning to the realities of labour market influences and employer needs.
- Understanding of the barriers and challenges that job seekers face.
- Strong ability to build and foster professional and cooperative relationships within a diverse work environment and job seekers.
- High degree of professionalism, ethics, tact, diplomacy and respect for boundaries. Self-awareness of personal bias and assumptions; confidentiality and adherence to professional codes of conduct a must.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office 2016: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Online facilitation experience and ability to navigate virtual platforms such as, Zoom, is considered an asset
- Willingness to work within anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks.
To apply, submit your resume and cover letter with the job title in the subject line of your email to: careers@acesd-ghana.org
African Canadian Centre for Employment & Skills Development (ACESD) thanks all applicants for their interest.
