Job Title: Site Lead, Jefferson County Employment and Training Program (JET)

Department: Center for Opportunity Rehabilitation and Employment

Reports To: Site Coordinator

Location: 1515 Dover Street, Lakewood, CO. 80215

Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm, some weekends and evenings

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Salary: $20 - $23 per hour

Schedule: 40 hours per week

Updated: November 17, 2023

We seek to create hope, opportunity, and choice, with work as the means through which people with disabilities and other hurdles to employment can more fully participate in the mainstream of life. For over 50 years Bayaud Enterprises has been an innovator in the community in reducing hurdles for individuals to engage in the workforce and attain self -reliance. We do this through personalized Employment Services, Social Enterprises (Business Solutions) which provide employment for those needing supported employment, and Individual and Community Services like providing free laundry with the Laundry Truck and support in finding housing and accessing different resource programs through the help of our Navigators. We create Hope, help to find Opportunities, and inspire Choices.

Bayaud Enterprises partners with Jefferson County to conduct outreach and recruitment for a job readiness, employment, and training (JET) for individuals and families experiencing homelessness and/or affected by COVID that are not currently engaged in other community programs. The overall purpose of this program is to provide paid Day Work Experiences, support services and job readiness and up skilling that may lead to employment in the community.

SUMMARY

JET program engages in routine seasonal labor and maintenance of Jefferson County parks and creek beds and other city/private sites to include maintaining flower beds, weeding, removing trash, cleaning facilities, removing graffiti, painting, irrigation and working with the public. The Site Lead is an integral part of the program who will focus on facilitating work crews on site, ensuring the completion of work on job sites, managing crisis interventions if needed, and connecting participants to proper referrals as needed. The Site Lead position will oversee all job site activities; ensuring that participant workers are trained appropriately for their site (ie. personal safety, use of equipment, body mechanics, PPE, reporting of accidents/injuries, etc.). This position ensures that the logistics of the sites are managed (transportation, food, equipment). The Site Lead drives the van and is responsible for keeping it clean and disinfected after each workday and assists with daily payout.

Work is performed under general supervision of Bayaud's Site Coordinator, and in coordination with the Intake Coordinator, Clinical Employment Specialists and Case Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage and safely facilitate a small work crew (up to 6 people) of unhoused population in Jefferson County daily outside work: weeding, picking up trash, removing graffiti, trimming branches, etc.
• Develop a good rapport with of unhoused population and understand their hurdles to employment, caused by or exacerbated by personal experiences of poverty and homelessness.
• Provide positive rehabilitation supports and mentorship to of unhoused population who may also experience significant disabilities.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships and coordination with staff from Jefferson County departments to identify locations to work and possible individuals to outreach.
• To ensure tasks can be completed.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Drive the company vehicle daily to and from meeting area to the work site.
• Clean and disinfect the vehicle and work tools daily after each workday.
• Assist in on-boarding participants in preparation to work.
• Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality customer service.
• Provide mentorship, advocacy, and rehabilitation support of unhoused population.
• Provide excellent customer service to our participants, business partners and County partners.
• Observe, compare, or monitor data, objects, and people's behavior to determine compliance with prescribed safety and operating standards, and make decisions about their ability to participate in certain activities or whether they need additional training.
• Add data entry in a timely manner.
• Other duties, as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), grammar, and reasoning skills.
• Independent worker with little direct supervision, but able to work as part of a larger employment focused team.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information without breach.
• Knowledge of crisis intervention, trauma informed care, and mental health first aid, a plus.
• Demonstrate experience providing services to the populations we serve.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) with 1 year experience working with target populations.
• Bilingual, English/Spanish a plus.
• Peer Recovery Coach Certification encouraged (must complete within 6 months of hire).

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Driver's License

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear; the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment will be a combination of being in a temperature-controlled office environment and out in the field in Colorado weather. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear; the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.

This position is not eligible for an "Alternative Work Plan". All duties must be performed in the office or in the community with participants. Special projects will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

TRAVEL

Travel will include Meetings in the community. Pick up/delivery of supplies or items needed for participants. Other travel as needed. Will drive a company vehicle for these purposes. If a personal vehicle is used for work travel, this driver will be reimbursed at the federal rate for mileage.

Equipment Used: PC, telephone, copy machine, fax, postage meter, calculator.

Bayaud Enterprises is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to create an inclusive environment for all employees. Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve.