Career Center Advisor

The ideal candidate is an equity-minded, compassionate, and highly organized career services professional committed to helping individuals overcome barriers and achieve meaningful education, training, and employment goals. This position will provide career advising and case management to a blend of WIOA Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Out-of-School Youth participants, as well as Ohlone College students and community members.

The ideal candidate has experience providing individualized career advising and coaching, developing employment and training goals, connecting individuals to education, training, and employment opportunities, and supporting participants throughout their workforce journey. They will be responsible for managing an active caseload, maintaining regular participant engagement, tracking participant progress and outcomes, and providing consistent follow-up to support successful outcomes.

The ideal candidate is highly detail-oriented and understands the importance of program compliance, accurate documentation, case notes, data entry and tracking, file maintenance, and meeting program deadlines and performance expectations. They are comfortable working with data and tracking systems and understand that accurate and timely documentation is an essential part of effective case management and grant-funded programming. Experience with WIOA is a strong plus, as is experience working with other grant-funded, workforce development, or outcomes-driven programs.

They are skilled at building rapport with individuals from diverse backgrounds, including youth and young adults, adult learners, career changers, dislocated workers, and individuals experiencing barriers to employment. They bring strong communication, sound judgment, initiative, and a solutions-oriented approach, while recognizing when collaboration or additional guidance is needed.

They are collaborative, dependable, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced career center environment. They work effectively as part of a team while taking ownership of their caseload, responsibilities, documentation, and participant outcomes.

Above all, the ideal candidate balances compassion with accountability, builds strong relationships with participants and partners, maintains high standards for their work, and is committed to delivering equitable, responsive, and high-quality career services to the diverse individuals and communities we serve.

Under the direction of an administrator, provide career advice and assistance to students/job seekers; provide resources for career development; prepare, coordinate and implement workshops for job seekers; provide Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) enrollment services; conduct community and campus outreach regarding career counseling services; conduct internal audits of client files.

This position is funded by categorical funds, and employment is subject to those funds being available.