Workforce Development Coach

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Position: Workforce Development CoachGrade / Salary: (3-4) $20.00-$25.00 per hour / 40 hours per week / 12 months
*** Pay depends upon experience and credentials*** Location: Marieb Early Learning Center - Main campus, 1723 North Orange Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34234Reports to: Director of Family Services
Summary: The Workforce Development Coach (WDC) is responsible for supporting families in increasing their employability skills, advancing their education, and obtaining employment to support family well-being. The WDC provides vocational case management, referrals, training, and support services to families, along with developing and implementing a Parent Training Program. The WDC works collaboratively with staff, families, and community partners. Work is reviewed through regular coaching and feedback with the supervisor.

• Identify family strengths and needs related to family engagement outcomes as described in the Head Start Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework, including family well-being, parent-child relationships, families as lifelong educators, families as learners, family engagement in transition, family connections to peers and the local community and families as advocates and leaders;
• Collaborate with families in a family partnership process that identifies needs, interests, strengths, goals and services and resources that support family well-being, including economic stability;
• Research and recommend new resources within the community;
• Develop and implement a Parent Training Program (PTP) that provides families with opportunities to work in a variety of areas within Children First, i.e. early childhood education, food services, clerical services or facilities maintenance;
• Share information with staff, as appropriate, consistent with HSPPS #1303 subpart C (PII) and IDEA
• Assist families to understand economic stability and mobility;
• Participate in identification and recruitment of eligible families;
• Maintain regular contact with families to promote continuing services;
• Provide community resource referrals relevant to family needs and serve as liaison with those resources; follow up as appropriate;
• Participate in agency- and community-sponsored events to promote family economic mobility through education, training, and employment
• Assist in providing parents with educational and employment support services;
• Provide opportunities for parents to understand vocational services;
• Review and analyze data to monitor and identify risks and inform strategies for continuous improvement of family outcomes according to the Parent, Family, Community Engagement Framework;
• Utilize agency identified database systems to review, record and report on program progress toward meeting compliance measures, including and follow-up action required;
• Provide regular measures of progress to all parties involved;
• Ensure quality data is collected and entered to support the reliability, validity and timely submission of the agency Program Information Report (PIR);
• Data collection, entry, quality, integrity, analysis, and reporting.

Experience and Education:

• ­Baccalaureate Degree in Human Resources, Social Work, or related field with coursework in social services.
• ­Two years of experience in the family social services or education…