Job Developer / Placement Specialist

Quad YouthBuild is hiring a full-time Job Developer/Placement Specialist to partner with employers and teach career-readiness classes while coaching participants ages 16–24 toward employment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain active relationships with employers, unions, Registered Apprenticeship programs, workforce agencies, training providers, and postsecondary partners.
• Source quality options including jobs, apprenticeships, internships, job-shadowing, work-based learning, and career pathways aligned with participant readiness and goals.
• Perform regular outreach through employer visits, networking, presentations, and labor-market research; maintain an organized pipeline of contacts, opportunities, referrals, interviews, and results.
• Coordinate job referrals through interview and application steps, including onboarding and employer commitments (including MOUs when appropriate).
• Plan, prepare, and directly teach career-readiness classes several days per week.
• Provide instruction on résumés, applications, interviewing, workplace communication, professional conduct, financial literacy, job search, career exploration, and job-retention skills.
• Create lesson plans and learning activities, assess progress, and maintain attendance and instructional records.
• Deliver 1:1 career coaching including mock interviews, employment-readiness assessments, and support for career plans.
• Evaluate placements for suitability and factors including safety, wages, hours, transportation, accessibility, and advancement potential.
• Support ongoing participant and employer follow-up to address employment and retention concerns; help with reemployment when placements end.
• Conduct authorized worksite, home, and community visits to locate or reengage participants; provide authorized transportation or accompaniment as required by agency policy.
• Coordinate with the Case Manager and other staff on barriers, postsecondary transitions, follow-up services, and clear next steps.
• Document employer contacts, services, referrals, interviews, placements, wages, hours, outcomes, retention contacts, transportation, and outreach in required systems.
• Obtain acceptable verification of reportable outcomes and meet program reporting deadlines and grant requirements.
• Participate in case conferences, staff meetings, recruitment, job fairs, program events, and assigned participant-supervision rotations.
• Protect confidential information and follow organizational safety, transportation, documentation, and communication procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in workforce development, business, human services, counseling, education, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in workforce development, employer engagement, job placement, business services, career coaching, youth development, or a related field.
• Ability to establish employer relationships and connect individuals to employment, training, apprenticeships, or education.
• Ability to teach or facilitate structured group instruction, plan lessons, manage a classroom, and assess learning.
• Strong communication, organization, independent follow-through, coaching, confidentiality, and documentation skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently to employers, worksites, homes, and community locations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, or comparable tools; ability to learn program data systems.
• Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, acceptable driving record, and ability to meet agency vehicle-use and participant-transportation requirements.
• Ability to meet organizational background-screening requirements.

Technologies

• Microsoft Office
• Google Workspace

Benefits

• 403(b)
• 403(b) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Mileage reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

Schedule and Travel

• Monday–Friday, 7:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m., with occasional early-morning, evening, or weekend activities.
• Frequent local travel is essential for employer and partner meetings, job fairs, worksite visits, interviews, onboarding assistance, and authorized participant transportation/accompaniment plus home or community visits.
• Classroom instruction happens several days per week; community activities must be planned around teaching responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with opportunity youth; community outreach or reengagement.
• Experience with Registered Apprenticeships, construction pathways, or work-based learning.
• Experience with grant-funded workforce programs.
• Experience working with local employers and labor markets.
• Experience providing employment-retention services.

Success Factors

• Consistent, effective classroom instruction and responsive employer partnerships.
• Suitable employment and training opportunities that support assigned placement and retention measures.
• Timely participant outreach and complete, accurate documentation.

Job Details

• Job Type: Full-time
• Pay: From $40,000.00 per year
• Location: Hammond, LA (onsite)
• Ability to Commute: Hammond, LA 70401 (Required)
• Work Location: In person