Training Specialist II; SLATE

Job Description
- Employment Training Specialist II (SLATE) (260000ML)
Job Description Employment Training Specialist II (SLATE) - ( 260000ML )Description

Position Grade: 209G

Department: SLATE (St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment)

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Location:
Downtown
- St. Louis, MO

Examination Number: EX1783

Incumbents develop employment opportunities with employers, research and identify potential job openings, recruit employment and training program clients and manage client cases to provide employment and training; and they may serve as lead workers engaged in assessing employment skills of clients, developing plans to improve employment potential, and advising and counseling clients about training/employment skills.

• Researches and identifies job openings. Meets with employers to promote city employment and training programs and coordinate clients for job placement.
• Assists employers with scheduling client interviews, employment verifications and placement follow-up.
• Assists in marketing employment and training programs. Recruits clients.
• May establish client program eligibility. Assesses clients’ career potential. Organizes and implements Job Fair to match clients with employers.
• Conducts employment counseling to determine client desires. Develops client strategic plans for training and employment.
• Arranges aptitude, interests and employment skills tests.
• Recommends skills training, on-the-job training, work experience, academic training (GED) or other training or improvement to increase chances of employment. Advise clients of available funding for training, apprenticeship opportunities, and educational opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to enter data and run reports in MoJobs.gov.
• Data Utilization:
  Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
• Human Interaction:
  Requires the ability to provide paraprofessional level counseling in semi-specialized areas, such as providing vocational and training advice, employment placement, and job skills development.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use:
  Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as motor vehicle, computer terminal, typewriter, telephone, fax machine, calculator/adding machine, computer printer and photocopier, and or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as job orders, employment vacancy ads, client resumes, employment verifications, placement verifications, program reports, placement reports/case notes directories, training manuals, financial aid forms, individual plans, school catalogs, program manuals and regulations, statutes, procedures, guidelines, timesheets, vendor reports, and non-routine correspondence.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, decimals and fractions.
• Functional Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.
• Situational Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
• Environmental Factors:
  Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to disease and irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
• Physical Requirements:
  
  Requires the ability to lift, push and pull up to twenty pounds such as office supplies. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements:
  Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of odors to assess client hygiene. Requires the…