Job Developer (Community Action & Human Services)

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree. Additional responsibility in customer service, job development, or employment opportunity assistance may substitute for the required college education on a year for year basis.

Recruitment Notes

This is job development and related work in finding and creating job opportunities for enrollees and applicants in a job training and employment assistance program. Employees in this class are primarily responsible for developing job opportunities through personal and telephone contacts with various employers in business, industry and government.

Emphasis of the work is on keeping informed on local labor market conditions, maintaining contact with counselors to help assess enrollees employment needs and provide guidance in making contacts with employers, and finding or developing job opportunities of various occupational types. Some employees in this class may also be assigned responsibility for encouraging employers in the development of subcontracts for job training. Incumbents may be assigned to job training centers or programs. Work is performed under the general supervision of an administrative or professional superior who assigns work, assists with unusual problems and evaluates completed work for effectiveness of results through conferences and written reports.