Workforce Development Specialist

We are recruiting for a motivated Workforce Development Specialist to join our team!

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Department

DH STD CONTROL PROGRAM PAV L

Job Summary

The Workforce Development Specialist, with minimal supervision, is responsible for the design, development, coordination, delivery, and evaluation of workforce development services.

This role is responsible for delivering career coaching and training across all departments of the organization. This position operates in a strong team-based environment where collaboration, individual execution and coordinated delivery are all critical to fulfilling the needs of the service recipient.

This position supports the HIV Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) Program within the Denver Prevention Training Center, a program in the Public Health Institute at Denver Health.

This team works with CDC funded community-based organizations (CBOs), state and local health departments (HDs), and other organizations working towards ending the HIV epidemic across the nation.

This position works with a diverse team of subject matter experts to delivery culturally responsive, affirming, and equitable tailored training and technical assistance.

To learn more about our team, program, and services, please visit www.denverptc.org

Essential Functions :

• Work with employees to develop, monitor and implement development plans and provide direction to ensure reaching their goals. (10%)
• Completes and individualized overview of available services and works with participant to connect to appropriate services. (10%)
• Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving individual goals by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with program referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts. (10%)
• Facilitates customer access to training, education, certificates and to employment services, as well as job-specific information. (10%)
• Manages a caseload of participants and provides career coaching and mentorship. (10%)
• Delivers training and technical assistance services as a subject matter expert through classroom, online, or web-based delivery in a manner that engages the learner, adheres to adult learning theory and produces the desired results. (10%)
• Collaborates with organizational leaders, hiring managers, key departments (examples : Talent Acquisition, Org Development, Nursing Education, etc) and community partners to meet career goals for our staff. (10%)
• Applies cultural humility towards individuals of other cultures or other lived experiences, maintains a humble and respectful attitude, challenges their own cultural biases, and approaches learning about other cultures as a lifelong process. (10%)
• Monitors the supply of available jobs at Denver Health. (10%)
• Provides staff with ongoing support, mentoring, and job coaching. (10%)

Education :

Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience :

4-6 years working with adult professionals on consulting-based activities including coaching, workforce development training, formal career mentoring.

Required

Licenses :

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Ability to prioritize and lead tasks to achieve daily work expectations with minimal direction from supervisor
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate with employees and organizational leaders alike
• Must have the ability to efficiently manage a large participant caseload (Active and Follow-up) in a fast pace environment.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Strong customer services skills.
• Ability to use and problem solve audiovisual equipment and apply use of multimedia into presentations.
• Demonstrated proficiency in using Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrated proficiency in using a Learning Management System.
• Some experience with online task management tools.

Shift

Days (United States of America)

Work Type

Regular

Salary

$65,190.00 - $97,785.00 / yr

Benefits

Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

Tuition reimbursement & assistance

Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer+ free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program

National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

Respect

Belonging

Accountability

Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured.

Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.

We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit : https : / / www.

denverhealth.org / for-professionals / careers / diversity-and-inclusion

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.