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Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?

YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.

We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work -- apply today!

What You'll Do

The career navigator works with people experiencing low income who are "furthest from opportunity" to enroll them into the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) program to assist them to find full time employment that supports their career and housing goals. The career navigator provides career navigation, counseling, and coaching, as well as critical job readiness skills, connections to WorkSource and community resources, and job placement and job retention assistance with area employers.

This position has a social justice component that requires critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principles of antiracism and grounding those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply. 

Expectation of your role

• Recruits participants from the community, then interviews, and screens applicants to determine eligibility.
• Assists participant to identify dependable strengths and helps participant identify gaps and barriers including those rooted in racist policies and systems.
• Provides participant-centered job search training and coaches participants to develop key job skills, impactful resumes and cover letters, and effective job search techniques.
• Assists participants with job readiness, job placement, job retention, wage progression, housing stability and financial capability goals.
• Connects participants with culturally relevant resources (e.g. transportation, housing, medical, mental health, childcare, domestic violence, financial assistance, etc.) and provides financial support services on an as-needed basis
• Maintains accurate participant files and consistently and thoroughly enters client data into funder-required databases including the ETO database
• Travels to multiple locations to meet with participants and provides remote career navigation utilizing Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Sign, and other software.
• Actively engages in agency-wide Race & Social Justice Initiative (RSJI), participates in Racial Equity Workplans, and strives for racially equitable outcomes; takes responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe and welcoming community by making room for people of color, trans and gender-non-conforming folks and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions.

Must have's to be successful

At least