Career Preparation Counselor

Job Title: Career Preparation Counselor

Location: Dayton, OH, US

Employment: Full Time

Requisition : 3135

Salary Range: $43,000.00 – $43,888.00 annually

Classification: Exempt

Reports To: Career Services Manager

Shifts available:

• Monday through Friday
• On-Call Rotating Weekends
• 8am-5pm

Salary: $43,888

Job Corps’ national mission is to educate and train highly‑motivated young people, ages 16‑24, for successful careers in the nation’s fastest‑growing industries. Here at Dayton Job Corps Center, we support their mission by teaching eligible young people, the skills they need to become employable and independent, and place them in meaningful jobs or further education. Students here have access to room and board while they learn skills in specific training areas for up to three years.

The program helps them to complete their high school education, trains them for meaningful careers, provides transitional support services, and assists them with obtaining employment. Job Corps graduates either enter the workforce or an apprenticeship, go on to higher education, or join the military.

Responsible for delivering counseling services to students during the Career Preparation Phase (CPP).

• Provides ongoing structured, scheduled, and documented individual career counseling sessions.
• Develops Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) with students and outlines actions necessary to achieve successful placement.
• Assists in center adjustment and serves as a liaison between students, staff, family, and community services. Assists with students’ arrivals. Confers with parents, Admissions Counselors, CTS, social service agencies, and other community resources to ensure adjustment to the center.
• Confers with minors’ guardians within 72 hours of arrival on center to discuss students’ initial adjustment to the program.
• Provides structured, scheduled, and documented individual social‑development and adjustment counseling to all students who are identified as having adjustment issues to the program or are considered to be high risk.
• Develops a counseling plan to address students’ negative behaviors and a plan to reward positive behavior from the students’ initial enrollment until they transition out of the program.
• Identifies student’s personal and academic issues so that the appropriate support can be provided.
• Ensures students’ accountability information, including leaves, attendance, and unauthorized absence (UA) retrieval, is submitted accurately and within established time frames.
• Maintains contact with all students who are in UA status and does everything to retrieve them from UA.
• Reviews attendance sheets for accuracy of documentation.
• Administers students’ Evaluation of Student Progress (ESP) within ePRH and center guidelines.
• Ensures that each student has an evaluation by their 60th day on center. Ensures that there is a formal evaluation prior to the student’s entry into CDP.
• Ensures that students develop Career Success Standards (CSS). Provides individual and group lessons or project assignments during and after the training day and on weekends to help students’ master competencies in all standards.
• Provides accurate documentation of trainee’s matriculation throughout CPP. Ensures that regular communication is documented, including individual and group counseling sessions, UA retrieval efforts, and barriers to successful enrollment.
• Provides crisis counseling, including pregnancy counseling. Provides prompt resolution of any student’s issues or difficulties.
• Discusses sexual harassment and fraternization policy with trainees and counsels behavior as needed.
• Participates in the Career Mentoring Team (CMT).
• Provide support to the Career Development Services System (CDSS) department to ensure student job readiness.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree with at least 15 semester hours of instruction in social services–related instruction.

Experience:

Two to three years of related experience and/or training.

• CPR/First Aid certifications
• Above-average public speaking skills and experience in the same
• Above-average verbal, written, problem-solving, and conflict‑resolution skills
• Comp…