Job: Work and Gain Employment and Education Skills Case Manager

Job Description

Job Type: Full time, Salaried

Wage: $31,490 - $35,904 /yr.

Location: Canon City, CO.

Job Description:

Our Mission Statement:

Sharing the love of God by helping families and individuals with their basic needs.

Job Summary

Work and Gain Education & Employment Skills (WAGEES) is a successful community-based program that facilitates reentry for people under the Colorado Department of Corrections supervision (i.e. parole, transition in Community Corrections). WAGEES Community Partners work in partnership with the Colorado Department of Corrections to help coordinate services and provide opportunities and support for successful reentry.

Case managers work directly with potential and existing participants on a wide variety of essential tasks ranging from finding employment, housing, education, vocational training, to assisting with basic needs such as obtaining identification documents, transportation, clothing and food. The goal is to assist each participant in their successful transition and reintegration into the community, maintaining sobriety, and creating and achieving short and long-term goals.

Hours and Pay: 40 hours a week, Salary position. $31,490 - $35,904 annually.

Agency Expectations:

● Adhere to agency policy and procedures.

● Demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload.

● Consistently report to work on time prepared to perform duties of position.

● A strong work ethic having the needs of the organization and the clients as the primary priority.

● Ambassador for Loaves and Fishes Ministries along with all employees, and responsible for the marketing and promoting the organization and its program both internally and externally.

● Lead in being a heartfelt team member of Loaves and Fishes Ministries.

● Display Christ like qualities in attitudes, work, interpersonal relationship and action.

● Assist in communicating our mission and core values in word and deed inside and outside of the program.

● Help plan program events such as fundraisers, graduations, and other special events.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Completes a detailed interview and intake process with new participants.
• Advises participants of their basic rights and responsibilities associated with the program and explains program benefits, requirements, and procedures.
• Assists participants in finding employment and housing and in getting enrolled in community services and educational programs or vocational training. Sometimes this will involve direct assistance and sometimes referrals to alternate resources.
• Enters and retrieves numerical and narrative data from an automated system, keeping detailed records of all pertinent interactions with participants immediately after they occur. Detailed and extensive data entry is required for every interaction with participants.
• Establishes and maintains case files according to program regulations.
• Plans, organizes and prioritizes workload to ensure that necessary tasks are completed in accordance with regulations relating to eligibility and timeliness.
• Maintains client confidentiality.
• Conducts informal assessments of participant strengths, needs and barriers to self -sufficiency.
• Builds and establishes rapport with participants and involves the participant in the decision making process.
• Provides support and coaching of participants to assist them in achieving their goals.
• Works with other staff and partner organizations to help provide solutions to barriers affecting participant participation.
• Determines program eligibility in accordance with program requirements.

Required Skills, Abilities, Knowledge and Experience:

• High School graduate with some college preferred (experience can substitute for education).
• Valid Colorado Driver’s License.
• Ability to safely transport participants in large vehicles.
• Willingness to submit background checks for in-reach events at State Prisons
• Willingness to travel through the various parts of the state for educational and training purposes
• Build and maintain professional relationships with CDOC staff and parole.
• Work as a team to conduct room searches and random drug testing for house members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Personal relations skills with a desire to work with persons in crisis and vulnerable individuals and to establish a strong and trusted rapport while motivating others towards achieving their goals.
• Excellent organizational skills and documentation skills. Ability to track many varied tasks, and keep completing the most important tasks first.
• Computer proficiency in:
• Microsoft Office programs
• Google Suite: Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Docs
• Mastery of basic computer skills: file organization, computer navigation
• Ability to work independently with strong sense of focus, task-oriented, nonjudgmental, open personal qualities
• A strong sense of and respect for confidentiality involving both clients and fellow employees
• Demonstrate high ethical behavior and integrity in working with clientele, co-workers and supervisors
• Prior work experience with poverty-specific population preferred
• Knowledge of community resources

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to operate a variety of office equipment including computer terminal, telephone, fax machine, calculator/adding machine, photocopier.
• The physical ability to make bed's, climb stairs, and do light home maintenance.
• Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, feet and limbs performing semi-skilled movements such as data entry.
• Ability to exert sustained moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling. Ability to sustain prolonged visual concentration.
• Ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks.

Loaves & Fishes Ministries in an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants must submit to a background check.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Experience:

• Case management: 1 year (Preferred)

**Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “View Application” below for more detail on this specific job.