IN-FSSA-DDRS-WIOA Partner Navigators Dist8

Job id: 739930

Department: FSSA

Position: WIOA Partner Navigators Dist.8

Location: Vocational Rehab. Office 1531 S Curry Pk Suite 300 Bloomington IN

Duration:12 Months (Hybrid)

• Candidate must reside in District 8 Counties Owen Monroe Brown Greene Lawrence Daviess Martin and Orange counties.
• Embedded WIOA partner navigators will coordinate services that advance competitive integrated employment for individuals served across partner programs.

Job Description:

• Increase the number of individuals with disabilities served across partner programs and leverage supports and resources to serve those individuals.
• Streamline access to services across partner programs reducing or eliminating gaps or barriers in accessing needed services and identifying a shared service delivery approach.
• Implementing successful practices to support participant navigation through Workforce services including the transition from high school into postsecondary training with a clearly defined vocational goal; securing wraparound supports to promote successful completion of postsecondary training for youth and adults especially with individuals experiencing barriers to successful completion; facilitating access to meaningful workbased learning activities; and coordinating other needed services to support quality employment outcomes.
• WIOA partner navigators (WPNs) will be embedded in the culture of the designated Work One center(s) and VR office(s).
• WPNs will be an embedded resource with knowledge of programming services and access points across partner programs.
• WPNs will be skilled in relationship building to support appropriate linkages and mutual delivery of services to shared participants across partner programs.
• To facilitate this approach WPNs will be housed at both partner sites embedded in the culture of partner agencies regularly attend staff meetings and obtain and retain knowledge of partner program services.
• Their primary role is to connect individuals with disabilities to appropriate partner programs promote a streamlined crossreferral process improve service and program access for individuals with disabilities and guide braided service delivery across programs.
• WPNs will serve as a resource for colleagues and may arrange for ongoing crosstraining across partner programs.

Requires skills:

• Bachelors degree plus at least two years of experience in training social services workforce services vocational rehabilitation or education
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft
• Selfstarter who can work independently
• Knowledge of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Demonstrated experience with building and retaining partner and stakeholder relationships.
• Experience in working with individuals and job seekers with disabilities strongly preferred.