Partnerships Specialist, Education ​/ Teaching

Employer Partnerships Specialist

Since 1982, over 160,000 youth have been helped with Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) programs. Y.O.U. helps teens and young adults, ages 14-24 living in economically distressed communities succeed by providing educational and workforce opportunities, skills development, and access to career pathways. We offer school-based and community-based programs designed to meet the needs of Northeast Ohio employers, with a focus on those industry sectors that provide the most opportunities for career success.

At Y.O.U., we are dedicated to excellence and continuous improvement of the quality of our services to youth, employers, and the community.

The Employer Partnerships Specialist (EPS) for LAUNCH is responsible for cultivating new and maintaining current partnerships with employers to develop and provide meaningful work experience opportunities for LAUNCH participants with the expectation that it will become a permanent hire. This EPS will partner directly with collaborative staff to embed Work Experience values into their programming and will facilitate all participant placement processes.

The EPS will facilitate employer registration and worksite validation, for all LAUNCH work experiences and help support the unsubsidized placement of LAUNCH collaborative partners. The EPS also provides feedback to the Program Managers about the attitudes, abilities, and skills our employer partners are looking for in an entry level worker.

Essential Functions

• Nurture and support existing employer partnerships and LAUNCH partners, with in-depth engagement, while gathering information about the LAUNCH partner's employment needs.
• Work directly with LAUNCH partner organizations, making presentations about the value of participating in work experience programming to program participants and communicating regularly about participant statuses and interests.
• Recruit employers that can provide meaningful work experiences to LAUNCH participants, particularly related to in-demand career fields, that could lead to permanent hire.
• Develop relationships with employers and secure worksites for young adults in both the private sector and subsidized worksites
• Conduct periodic worksite visits as needed to ensure participants are working in a safe environment that will lead to a meaningful work experience.
• Conduct employer registration and worksite validation meetings, phone calls, and processes.
• Edit, distribute, and track the worksite terms & conditions agreement, ensuring timely collection of supervisor signatures
• Add & update systems records related to both participants and employers in Salesforce and our Y.O.U. data collection excel sheets
• Communicate regularly with Senior Manager for the Young Adult Workforce and Manager of CCMEP about Work Experience participant statuses and participate in scheduled LAUNCH meetings when requested.
• Provide excellent customer service to employers and partners as it relates to worksite registration and matching youth participants in a timely manner.
• Handle escalated issues from worksites with tact and diplomacy.
• Match program participants to available work experience opportunities and permanent placement opportunities following Y.O.U. protocols on a routine basis, within short time frames, to include worksite reassignments.
• Engage with partner management and job coaches to build relationships, helping partner staff to align their participant's interests with opportunities to develop and grow through job exploration.
• Assist with career fairs, resume writing workshops, and other professional development events for LAUNCH participants.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision benefits available with coverage beginning the first of the month following date of hire.
• Company paid life insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program and Long-Term Disability
• Retirement Plan with generous employer contributions
• Generous paid time off package including 17 paid holidays
• Professional Development Assistance Program

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business, Communications, Education, Social Work) from an…