Specific Education, Certification and Skill Requirements (if applicable): MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Bachelor's degree (e. g., B.A., B.S.W.) and/or equivalent experience. Fluency in Albanian and English required. Candidates speaking an additional third language, most preferably Russian, French or Spanish are strongly preferred.
Job Description: CAMBA’s comprehensive Workforce Development and Refugee Services programs annually provide over 1,800 low income community members with employment, education, training, benefits access, financial literacy and English language services. CAMBA specializes in assisting those with special barriers to employment including low skilled workers, long-term unemployed, immigrants and refugees, limited English speakers, formerly homeless, seniors, formerly incarcerated, trauma survivors and victims of human trafficking. These programs are performance-based, and success is measured by meeting enrollment, employment placement, training, retention and case management goals. (1) Refugee Resettlement Program helps local residents complete Affidavits of Relationships so they can sponsor relatives who are seeking to enter the country as refugees. Refugees are offered acculturation education, reunited with their families, receive counseling, advocacy, and referrals to relevant health, social, education, and employment-related services. (2) Matching Grant Program provides employment services for highly motivated newly arriving refugees and political asylees, providing successful participants with a cash grant for up to three months, equal to or greater than a Public Assistant cash grant, as an incentive for going to work and avoiding public assistance. Participants receive intensive case management, job placement and English language training.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The person filling this position is expected, under general supervision, to: (1) aid individuals and/or families requiring social service assistance; (2) interview and evaluate applicants for services, formulate service plans and goals, and aid clients to implement service plans; (3) locate and make use of appropriate community resources for clients; (4) evaluate actual living conditions of clients though home visits; including the following:
Review all documentation establishing clients' eligibility for program and make file copies. Assist clients in completing all CAMBA intake applications and forms. Create and maintain client files. Conduct initial intake or assessment of clients and clients' families and/or periodic reassessments. Follow-up with clients and with referral organizations regarding client contact and progress with referral organization. Work with clients to break through barriers to client goals and to assist clients in advocating for themselves and in moving toward self-sufficiency. Recommend and implement strategies to persuade clients to participate more fully in this process. Monitor clients' progress toward their goals (dates achieved) via regularly scheduled telephone contact and/or face-to-face home and office visits, and document via progress notes.
Other Information About This Job: Please send resume and cover letter in MS word attachment to: submitresumes@CAMBA.org
