Job Description

Job Title: Trade Career Navigator

Status : FTE

Brighton Center, Inc. is a private non-profit community-based organization with the mission to create opportunities for individuals and families to reach self-sufficiency through family support services, education, employment, and leadership.

Purpose:

The role of the Career Navigator will be to define, develop, execute, and lead a pre-apprenticeship program that leads to customers engaging in trade apprenticeships, employment opportunities, and connections with post-secondary education programs while maintaining a focus on the agency's mission and core values.

Job Responsibilities:

As the Trades Career Navigator, you will identify, engage, and empower individuals seeking to learn and establish themselves as a trade worker. By partnering with prospective trainees to understand their goals and potential barriers, you will:

• Work collaboratively to facilitate a smooth transition through the pre-apprenticeship process and support their transition to apprenticeship, education, or employment opportunities
• Connect with prospective trainees and community referral partners via direct outreach at events, information sessions, and one-on-one appointments in community settings and through digital outreach using social media channels.
• Recruitment and retention of customers, completing intake assessment and barrier assessment meetings.
• Ongoing case management and service planning services.
• Assist customers with connecting to community resources to stabilize their situation.
• Assist with career planning, resume development, and job search.
• Maintain data entry requirements, track and report outcomes, and work with community partners to coordinate services and schedule programming.
• Organize, host, and facilitate workshops during the three-week cohort sessions.
• Connect and engage with individuals of diverse backgrounds.
• Passionately believe that each person has inherent worth and dignity and the ability to become self-sufficient.
• Be a strategic thinker with demonstrated skills in growing referral bases, relationship management, marketing, and social media.
• Be innovative, organized, and results-oriented.

Requirements:

• Skilled Trades Industry knowledge preferred, instructional experience a plus
• Demonstrated experience in customer service
• Demonstrated experience in marketing and/or community engagement
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive, professional relationships
• Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and ability to navigate database applications
• Reliable transportation
• Ability to adapt and maintain flexibility in a fast-paced and changing environment

What we offer:

• Competitive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits 
• Retirement Plan-employer contribution of 4% of gross salary for 403b and additional 2% match option
• Generous Vacation and Sick Leave
• 11.5 Paid Holidays
• Childcare Discount
• Agency Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Professional Development
• Education Awards

This position has a salary range of $41,500 - $43,888.

If you are interested in this position, please log on to and apply today! Come join a growing agency!

We are an equal-opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to gender, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

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Brighton Center wraps a community of support around individuals and families by tackling the issues that prevent people from becoming self-sufficient, removing the barriers they face, and creating hope so that goals can be achieved and dreams realized. From our modest beginnings in 1966, we have grown to provide a wide range of programs and services, which include meeting basic needs, adult and early childhood education, youth services, housing & financial wellness, workforce development, substance abuse recovery for women, and neighborhood-based programs.

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