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YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish CareerWork$ Ready Instructor in Auburn, Washington
Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?
YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.
We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work -- apply today!
What You'll Do
YWCA CareerWork$ Ready is an online job readiness training created during the response to the unprecedented need to help job seekers reenter the workforce during the pandemic health crisis. CareerWork$ Ready program targets low income; disadvantaged job seekers reenter the workforce during the pandemic health crisis. The CareerWork$ Ready Instructor's primary responsibility is to provide coaching and training sessions to participants of the YWCA CareerWork$ Ready program. The CareerWork$ Ready Instructor will also provide employment preparation, career navigation, job placement and retention support to CareerWork$ Ready program participants. Secondary responsibilities include working with the CareerWork$ Ready team to recruit, evaluate and screen candidates for program enrollment and assisting student's in identifying strengths and overcoming barriers to successful completion of both CareerWork$ Ready and BankWork$ programs and employment. This job has remote work, as an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.
This position will prioritize resources for communities structurally positioned furthest from opportunity and will center services on the needs and experiences of BIPOC communities within Seattle King County, especially Black/African American, Latinx, and refugee/immigrant individuals and families residing in Seattle King County.
This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking around how the external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principals of antiracism work and grounding those principles in everyday work, as well as working well in non-white environments and championing anti-racism policy, are required job skills and core values.
Expectations of your role:
Work with community employers and partners to recruit, screen, and interview and assess applicants for program services
Use provided curriculum materials to deliver 3-week Training classes responsive to the needs of job seekers.
Maintain client tile documentation on each participant including accurate documentation on classroom performance and produce regular reports indicating participant placement, and salary progression.
Stay current to changes and trends through professional development and gaining insight through partner feedback
Learn and use technology to enhance teaching and the educational experience when appropriate.
Plan and organize instruction in ways that maximize student learning and modify, where appropriate, instructional methods an