EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST

Employment Specialist - 70028789

This open competitive advertisement is for a Career Service position located at Circuit 15-0 West Palm Beach. The mission of an Employment Specialist is to empower individuals under community supervision by providing comprehensive job readiness training, fostering partnerships with employers and educational institutions, and offering continuous support to help them secure meaningful employment and successfully reintegrate into society.

Job duties include meeting with offenders to help them find jobs and provide resources while they are under supervision, organizing and leading classes on job readiness, building partnerships with employers, schools, and community groups to create job opportunities and training for offenders, supporting offenders by regularly checking in, helping with job searches, and coordinating job fairs and volunteer work, and working closely with probation officers and community agencies to ensure offenders get the help they need to succeed.

Benefits include paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; comprehensive health insurance and life insurance with accidental death and dismemberment benefits; supplemental dental, vision, life, disability, and hospitalization insurance; tuition-free college courses; and retirement plans with the Florida Retirement System: Pension Plan (Traditional Retirement Pension Plan), Investment Plan (401(K)-Type Retirement Plan), Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP), and Deferred Compensation.

Requirements include a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or 4 years of professional or nonprofessional experience in job placement, parole, probation, sworn law enforcement, public investigations, clemency, victim services work, administrative work, or corrections work or any combination of education and work experience as described above for a total of 4 years. Support of knowledge, skills, and abilities should be demonstrated on the application, in the education, in the work experience, in the work sample, in the interview, and/or during reference checks.

Additional information includes a background screening requirement, employment eligibility, and veterans' preference.