ASD​/Career Specialist-PRISM

Position: ASD Career Advancement Specialist

Location: PRISM

Reports To: Program Coordinator

Hours: Full-time/40 hrs. Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm, w/flexibility for evenings/weekends

Triangle has an immediate opening for an ASD/ Career Advancement Specialist at the PRISM/Main Street site. The qualified candidate will equip adults with disabilities to help them achieve their career and personal goals This will be done by maximizing their abilities and leveraging their interests through competitive employment opportunities as well as engaging, fun and customizable programming experiences.

• Adheres to Triangle policy and procedures
• Fosters a positive, solution-oriented culture consistent with Triangle's mission
• Promotes employment, self-advocacy, and independence across programs and participants
• Acts as a role model within and outside of Triangle
• Maintains a positive and respectful attitude towards participants, staff, and community partners
• Communicates regularly with supervisor
• Demonstrates flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload
• Consistently reports to work on time prepared to perform duties of position, with a willingness to flex hours as needed

• Equips neurodiverse participants with job readiness skills to secure potential employment or collegiate pathways
• Supervises & supports groups of participants in a program and variety of settings including social gatherings, volunteer sites, recreational outings, and other community related outings
• Creates an inviting, customizable, exciting and innovative earning environment
• Takes lead in developing and implementing activities and employment/collegiate opportunities focused on personal and professional development
• Aids in the development & implementation of new, flexible and engaging career and social experiences to meet program/participant driven goals
• Monitors member's respective utilization of contracts
• Facilitates and implements after hours social opportunities and community engagement as needed
• Monitors individual job performance, attitude, and behavior for appropriateness for those that are employed
• Implements independent living, self-advocacy, and soft skills into daily activities and programmatic offerings
• Provides individualized support to participants, when necessary, both during programming and 1:1 job/collegiate pathway coaching
• Conducts initial/ongoing assessments for personal growth
• Proactively communicates with families or members over employment/collegiate progress and needs
• Provides supports to members and assists in developing natural supports to ensure integration and increased or maintained independence in the community
• Trains and develops independent skills related to employment and collegiate pathways, such as travel training, hygiene, self-advocacy, etc.
• Provides transportation for groups or individual career seekers to interview, employment assessments, job searching, and other employment activities in the community
• Communicates in a professional manner with employers/collegiate stakeholders
• Works with Case Management team to ensure individual's ISP/Life Plan goals are being met
• Participates in ISP/Life Plan meetings with Department of Developmental Services, participants, and families or other members of support team as needed
• Takes direction from Site Manager/Program Coordin to collect accurate data as needed for ISP/Life Plans, behavior plans, monthly progress notes, etc.
• Submits billing and related progress notes on a daily basis utilizing Penelope software
• Contributes to monthly ISP/Life Plan goal tracking notes
• Other duties as assigned

• Performs 1:1 job development with or on behalf of participant and complete documenting/ billing in database
• Ad…