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Account Manager/Community Partners
Seedco
Description
Overview of Seedco, The Workforce1 Career Center: Seedco is a national community development organization focused on creating opportunities for low wage workers and community entrepreneurs. We help people join the workforce and achieve economic self-sufficiency, assist small businesses, and promote asset building for residents and businesses in economically distressed communities. For more information on Seedco, check out www.seedco.org>www.seedco.org.
Seedco manages the Upper Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center through a contract with the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). The center involves a partnership of agencies and organizations working together to provide a full array of employment services including career advisement, job search counseling, skills training and job placement and retention services that are matched to the staffing needs of the business community.
Overview of position: Seedco is seeking qualified candidates for a full-time Account Manager for Recruitment and Placement at the Upper Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center located on West 125th Street. Our Recruitment and Placement team consists of eight account managers reporting to a Senior Account Manager and a Community Partner Coordinator who work to jointly serve the high volume of job seekers seeking employment through our center. We focus on meeting a minimum of 90 placements per week as a team, with at least 20% of these placements coming from referral relationships with community partners. The Account Manager focusing on Community Partners will work closely with the Community Partner Coordinator and center recruitment and placement team to effectively screen referrals from our network of community partners either on-site or at the Center and to provide valuable assistance to partners in referring job ready candidates. In order to achieve the desired employer recruit-to-hire ratios of at least 3:1, it important that the candidate be team-oriented, problem-solving, professionally-driven and highly-motivated to: 1) maintain a consistently high number of satisfied employers; and 2) match the right candidates to all job openings generated by the team. Relevant and up-to-date knowledge of the NYC job market is essential. Please note that we are not looking for traditional job developers focused on individual weekly and monthly placement quotas.
Key Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
? Developing a recruiting plan for each employer outlining the timeframe, outcomes and processes to be used to satisfying the hiring demand; ? Sharing secured job order information with the team; training them on the specific nuances of each employer seeking to interview candidates; ? Manage referral channels for a variety of different constituents and programs; ? Recruiting appropriate job seekers from community partner referral partners and other relevant agencies and institutions to prescreen them for referrals to all employers; ? Work closely with Community Partner Coordinator to provide accurate and informative feedback to community partner network to improve future referral quality; ? Developing a recruiting plan for each employer outlining the timeframe, outcomes and processes to be used to satisfying the hiring demand; ? Sharing secured job order information with the team; training them on the specific nuances of each employer seeking to interview candidates; ? Working with the team to identify appropriate job seekers from within the center; efficiently prescreening them for referral to all employers served by the team; ? Complying with administrative responsibilities including follow-up with employers on hiring status and updating progress notes on interview results of job seekers; ? Tracking referrals and placements on a daily and weekly basis; and ? Other and all related tasks as necessary and required.
Key Qualifications: Candidates should possess the following qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree required;
• At least 3 years of directly related experience required;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience in a team-based work environment;
• Must be articulate, motivating and possess strong sales skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively with people of diverse cultures and backgrounds;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume, target oriented environment;
• Existing contacts within businesses and experience presenting to business/industry preferred; and
• Bilingual Spanish/English a plus. Compensation: Based on experience. Full benefits package. Seedco is an EEO employer.
How to apply: Forward resume and cover letter in MS Word format to: jobopenings@seedco.org. You must put "Account Manager CP (Req#10-24)" in the subject line of the e-mail in order for it to be processed. Email is preferable to fax. Please, no phone calls about the position.
Please visit www.seedco.org for more job opportunities.
