Director of Education and Employment

Job Title: Director of Education and Employment

Reports To: Chief Program Officer

Department: Programs

Job Type: [Full-time] – Salary Exempt

Salary Range: $90 to $100k

Objective of Role: The Director of Education and Employment manages workforce development programming, including robust job readiness training, increased permanent job opportunities, and overall career and life opportunity development for Participants. The successful candidate has successfully led workforce development initiatives and young adult development programs, and can scale the already successful GOSOWorks program.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a robust workforce development program including relationships with, and contract with businesses and other organizations to place GOSOWorks participants in subsidized, paid, part-time, internships, and permanent employment utilizing research and outreach.
• Manage staff and all aspects GOSO’s workforce development program, including job readiness training, employment placement, government contracts, wage subsidy program, payroll and tax compliance, and ensuring reimbursements.
• Lead the programming, staff development, and curricula for the assessment, counseling, job readiness, job placement, and career development of participants.
• Research and access government and private funding in collaboration with the Development staff.
• Cultivate and build relationships with internship sites, including quarterly site visits and evaluations of internship sites.
• Ensure metrics and goal management and data collection on program outcomes utilizing Salesforce database and other tools and models.
• All other duties as required.

Essential Skills:

• Relationship building expertise with organizations who offer career, jobs and other opportunities.
• Demonstrated capability working with and developing young adults.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and networking skills.
• Strong commitment to social and racial justice, criminal justice reform, and youth development.

Core Competencies: 

• Excellent work ethic
• Commitment to working in a mission driven organization
• Demonstrated personal ethics and values
• Cross-team collaboration and cooperation
• Team-player who works well with a diverse group of people

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master degree a plus.
• 3 – 5 years of experience in workforce development.
• English-Spanish bilingual a plus.
• Computer literate and skilled in using Microsoft Office,Word and Excel, Google applications, and related programs. Ability to learn GOSO’s Salesforce database and any other databases and software.
• Knowledge of young adult development programs and curricula.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary commensurate with experience. GOSO offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Please send a resume with cover letter to: View email address on click.appcast.io. Resumes without a cover letter will not be considered.

GOSO is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

About GOSO: Getting Out and Staying Out has a vision of a world where neither a person’s race nor their prior contact with the legal system determines their future. To work toward that vision, we partner with young people impacted by arrest or incarceration on a journey of education, employment, and emotional well-being. For many of our participants, that journey begins while they are detained or incarcerated, on Rikers Island or in youth detention centers. We work with all interested individuals, regardless of the charges that they face, engaging them in future planning through programing focused on education, employment, and emotional well-being while helping to meet their immediate needs, whether physical (warm clothing, commissary supplies), psychological (correspondence and communication to help maintain links to the outside world), or legal (coordinating with public defense attorneys on courtroom advocacy). Among the major programs that are under the GOSO umbrella are Stand Against Violence East Harlem (SAVE), GOSOWorks, and multiple education programs (including Pathways-to-Graduation, a high school equivalency program). GOSO served its participants and the Harlem community throughout the Pandemic and, in fact, expanded its budget in the past few years. We are currently building our external relations functions, including development, in order to position GOSO for continued growth and expanded impact on those at the heart of our mission.