Job Summary
Family Gateway’s Vocational Specialist is responsible for developing partnerships with agencies,
institutions, companies, and community members that can contribute to increasing gainful living wages
for adults in families experiencing or who have experienced homelessness. A successful candidate in
this role will be able to both develop strategic partnerships that advance employment opportunities for
adults living in supportive housing and emergency shelter who are unemployed/underemployed, while
also lending professional support and guidance to adults, readying them for gainful employment
opportunities.

Job Duties & Responsibilities
Community Outreach & Partnership
• Identify, develop and enhance partnerships with career development collaboratives between
Family Gateway and agencies, institutions, companies and community members that will hire
individuals with barriers such as criminal backgrounds, no/inconsistent job history, or low
educational attainment.
• Conduct outreach to employers to find training and professional development opportunities for
adults in supportive housing and emergency shelter.
• Maintain highest level of cooperative and professional relationships with employers, community
members and corporate contacts.
• Provide referrals to employment support agencies that offer job training, internships,
apprenticeships, or training programs.
• Recruit for talent that will serve mutual interests of organizations that have partnered with
Family Gateway and adults who are seeking employment services.

Employment Services
• Review referral, complete intake to assess client employment barriers employment interests.
• Establish professional relationships with adults in shelter/supportive housing environments that
are unemployed, underemployed or have minimal educational attainment.
• Increase household income in 60 days or less than by partnering adults with opportunities that
will allow for a living wage.
• Collaborate with varying program case managers to identify and assess the needs of adult family
members that are unemployed/underemployed.
• Meet, assess, and create action plans with adults that are in need of employment support on a
weekly/biweekly basis.
• Engage adult family members in need of support in identifying & assessing strengths that will
assist create short and long-term employment goals.
• Identify & reduce barriers to gainful employment.
• Empower those in need of services with skills & support on job applications, resumes, interview
attire, and interviews.
• Host or connect to partners for job fairs, employment skills training/classes/seminars.
• Create an employment board/online forum with daily updates of available employment leads
and opportunities.
• Connect adult family members with opportunities that will allow for professional growth such as
skill certification classes/programs or collegiate opportunities.
• Offer resources, training and skills that will encourage/promote employment retention and
professional growth.
• Attend monthly vocational meetings with Housing and Shelter Director.
• Populate monthly/quarterly/annual reports that will document vocational program results (i.e.,
the number of individuals served, average number of days from unemployed to employed,
average household income increases, etc.,).
• All other duties as assigned.
Education, Experience and Requirements
• HR experience strongly preferred, specifically recruiting and networking experience.
• Ability to travel to varying locations up to 30% of the time.
• Ability to work on site at least 2 days a week.

Please send cover letter and resume to Ta’Cherrie Durant tdurant@familygateway.org
No phone calls, please.