UCSD PROS Career Coach

Payroll

Title:

CAREER SVC SPEC 2 SV

Department:
School of Public Health

Hiring Pay Scale: $28.07 - $48.28 / Hour

Worksite:
Remote

Appointment Type:
Limited Appointment

Appointment Percent: 30%

Union: SV Contract

Total Openings: 2

Work Schedule:

Days, 8-Hour Shifts, Monday-Sunday

UC San Diego values and welcomes people from all backgrounds. If you are interested in being part of our team, possess the needed licensure and certifications, and feel that you have most of the qualifications and/or transferable skills for a job opening, we strongly encourage you to apply.

This position is a contract/limited position with the possibility of extension/career conversion.

Reassignment Applicants:
Eligible Reassignment clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.

Candidates hired into this position may have the ability to work remotely.

The new Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science is dedicated to health and social equity and has over 80 primary salaried faculty, 25 secondary faculty, 200+ personnel, 200 postgraduate students, and 550 undergraduate majors. The School includes activities in the Public Health disciplines of Behavioral Medicine, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Policy, Health Equity, Public Mental Health, and Environmental and Climate Health.

The School administers two PhD programs (Public Health and Biostatistics), a Master of Public Health professional degree program, an MS in Biostatistics, the only Health Sciences undergraduate program (BSPH), an MAS in Leadership of Healthcare Organizations run in conjunction with UCSD Extension, and a Preventive Medicine residency program. The School has strong collaborative research programs facilitated by Research Centers of Excellence focused on Wireless and Population Health Systems, Health Promotion and Equity, Women's Health, and Tobacco Control, and has extensive collaborations with the School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Jacobs School of Engineering, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Moores Cancer Center, the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, and with other partners across the UC San Diego campus.

Partnerships with the community and health agencies are fundamental to the School. The School houses five recharge cores providing services to UCSD and external customers, and the School’s faculty and academics hold ~$125M total awarded grants and contracts.

The UCSD PROS program serves a wide array of clients from throughout San Diego County and we specialize in serving adults whose lives have intersected with the criminal justice system including adults under community supervision (probation, parole, court diverted). The UCSD PROS Career Coach also serves adults impacted by violence, including gun violence and other forms of penetrative injuries and who may be living with trauma or mental illness.

Career Coaches will collaborate with other UCSD PROS staff to offer holistic client services.

The position will use the UCSD PROS Career Coaching curriculum to support clients. The position must have high knowledge of challenges and solutions to securing work as experienced by adults under community supervision (probation, parole, court diverted) in San Diego or persons who may have physical or mental health concerns that may impact employment opportunities. The incumbent must be able to work with clients ranging from those with little/no experience to persons enrolled in higher education whose lives have been impacted by the criminal justice system.

The position guides clients job search including job seeking, planning and goal setting, exploration of professional interests, skills and expertise, exploration of current industry prospects as well as local vocational or other training or employment opportunities. The position will help clients develop individualized job search strategies and action plans. The position advises on job search activities through job acceptance. The position is expected to support clients in developing the knowledge, skills and perspective needed to be successful in retaining their employment in order to create economic stability.

Expertise in the San Diego labor market, organizations and supports for job seekers is required.

The position helps clients understand how to: use technology to seek and apply for employment opportunities, conduct online video interviews, and…