Job Coaches needed - help your neighbor pursue meaningful work

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Do you enjoy helping people hone their workplace skills and pursue meaningful work?

Memorial Assistance Ministries (MAM) Employment Services is a self-sufficiency program that helps clients identify and overcome their obstacles to finding and keeping a steady, meaningful job, helping them gain the edge to compete in today’s tough job market. Clients are highly motivated and willing to learn. Staff and volunteers work together to cultivate an attitude of caring, understanding, encouragement, and support, while creating an environment of positive attitude and the expectation of personal responsibility and hard work from participants. All MAM Employment Services programming is offered at no charge to clients.

In this volunteering opportunity, Job Coaches primarily provide one-on-one Job Coaching and facilitate Job Readiness classes to prepare clients get a job, keep a job, and for advancement. The Coaching topics include Resume Writing, Interviewing Skills, Creating an Elevator Speech, Job Search Strategies, Dealing with Obstacles, and building Soft Skills.

Since many of your clients may be learning English in addition to searching for a steady and meaningful job, ESL Training (two, 2-hour sessions via Zoom) is provided. We ask that Job Coaches commit to 1 day per week, 3 hours at a time, for a duration of 6 months to a year. Typically, Job Coaches see one client per hour (3 clients per day). Currently Job Coaching is held remotely and will move to in-person when able (Westchase District).

**We currently have an especially high need for someone familiar with Engineering-related employment**

We ask that you have:

• Demonstrated ability to work with persons from all walks of life and treat them with dignity and respect.
• Ability to easily build rapport and trust with clients.
• Strong understanding of the hiring process, including hands-on experience in recruiting, interviewing, screening, OR assisting and supporting job applicants.
• Strong interpersonal skills at both the individual and group level; specifically, the ability to listen empathetically to clients and to suggest corrective courses of action persuasively; AND the ability to create and deliver presentations before groups
• Excellent organizational skills with ability to prioritize tasks in an environment with no support staff.
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in business administration or human resource management plus three years of coaching/training experience; OR Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a social science plus five years of coaching/training experience in a business or HR setting, OR a high school diploma plus ten years of coaching/training experience in a business or HR setting.
• Self-sufficient in MS Office, email, Internet, etc.
• English fluency (read, write, speak, and understand)