Career Skills Instructor

Career Skills Instructor

STRIVE is looking for a Career Skills Instructor to assist with serving individuals in their Career Path program. The Career Path program offers occupational skills training, career coaching, job placement assistance, and lifetime services. START, facilitated in the first three weeks of Career Path, focuses on attitude, accountability, personal responsibility, workplace ethics, professional etiquette, and interpersonal skills. The STRIVE START program will not only help individuals land a job but build a career.

Essential duties and responsibilities include facilitating various modules in STRIVE's Career Path program, conducting monthly workshop orientations, specializing in resume creation, interviewing techniques, facilitation, and classroom management, ongoing collaboration with other departments, presenting information using a variety of instructional techniques, organizing and obtaining training procedure manuals and course materials, maintaining documentation and student data in STRIVE cloud-based CRM, and leveraging data to guide program service delivery.

Qualifications include a bachelor's degree, minimum of two years' experience in job readiness or workforce development, ability to interact positively with a variety of personalities and socio-economic populations, knowledge of the local labor market and employer requirements, professionalism, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and cloud-based CRM software, high energy level, flexibility, and excellent administrative, communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills. Bilingual speaking abilities is a plus.

Benefits include health care plans, retirement plan, life insurance, paid time off, paid family leave, short term and long term disability, employee assistance program, legal insurance, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, pre-tax commuter plans, flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care, summer Fridays, financial literacy program, and flexible work schedules.

Location: In person Monday-Friday in STRIVE's NJ office.

STRIVE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. STRIVE prides itself on the diversity of its workforce. STRIVE is committed to equal employment opportunity to all job applicants and employees without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, medical condition, disability, veteran or marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other unlawful criteria.