Career Center Consultant - Veterans Representative

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Opening Date: July 14, 2026

Closing Date: July 28, 2026

Location: Lewiston

Class Code: 0723

Grade: 20 (Professional/Technical)

Salary: $20.68 - $28.88/Hour

Would you like to join a team of hardworking professionals who support Maine’s workforce with an additional focus on veterans, eligible spouses of veterans, and businesses across Maine? If you are a veteran or eligible spouse (see minimum qualifications), enjoy working with the public, and want to make a difference by helping job seekers connect with jobs and businesses connect with workers, then this career is for you!

The successful candidate will focus on connecting Maine’s veteran population to good jobs. They will deliver workforce services to job‑seeking veterans and businesses. Frequent regional and occasional statewide travel is required and reimbursed at the current approved state mileage rate.

• Conduct interviews, vocational assessments, and provide career guidance; coordinate support services; refer customers to programs or services; and make referrals to job openings.
• Conduct outreach efforts including off‑site hours at locations where job seekers, specifically veterans, may spend time, including other veteran agencies.
• Develop and conduct workshops.
• Deliver business services to area employers in order to develop employment opportunities for customers.
• Conduct and participate in informational sessions, job fairs, and trade shows.
• Develop and negotiate training agreements for apprenticeship programs, internships, and on‑the‑job‑training employment opportunities for employers/businesses.

• Knowledge of job search strategies and workforce placement techniques.
• Ability to assess individual skills, interests, and needs in relation to career opportunities.
• Strong interview and consulting skills.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse customer base.
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.

Any combination of education and/or work experience that demonstrates competency in:

• Interpersonal
  
  Skills:
  
  Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively working with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences, effectively communicates and works with coworkers as team members.
• Customer/Quality
  
  Skills:
  
  Anticipates, monitors, and meets the needs of customers and responds to them in an effective, appropriate manner. Demonstrates commitment to identifying customers’ apparent and underlying needs and continually seeks to provide the highest quality service and product to all customers.
• Accountability
  
  Skills:
  
  Holdself-accountable for measurable, high‑quality, timely, and cost‑effective results. Determines objectives and sets priorities. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Accountable for own development, including learning necessary job knowledge and associated laws, rules, and policies. Identifies and participates in learning opportunities. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Planning/Organization
  
  Skills:
  
  Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long‑term goals for self and strategies to achieve them. Using flexibility and resiliency skills, appropriately and effectively adjusts work, plans and priorities to changing circumstances. Monitors own progress and evaluates outcomes.

As required by federal grant, the successful candidate will be a qualified service‑connected disabled veteran, a qualified eligible veteran, or other qualified eligible persons as defined by Title 38, USC, Section 4101(5). The successful candidate will attend live, instructor‑led virtual training provided by the National Veterans’ Training Institute (NVTI) and paid for by the US Department of Labor. The training must be completed within 12 months of hire and will be considered…