Job Details

GENERAL SUMMARY:

This staff person is responsible for assisting DESC customers who are seeking employment. The Business Service Representative is expected to develop Work Based Training opportunities, including, on-the-job training, apprenticeships, and job placement opportunities for customers. The individual in this position markets and explains all available services, funding, benefits, and current special projects/program available to the business community. This involves marketing primarily by direct contact to the business community. This staff person will communicate with the business community, local unions, and related partnered entities. This individual is responsible to attain the employment related program goals of placing customers into permanent unsubsidized employment as part of a coordinated team effort. This goal must be accomplished while remaining within detailed, restrictive ES/TAA/RESEA/WIOA State, and Federal regulations and guidelines, as well as the attainment of multiple State-performance standards and benchmarks. These duties include identifying and securing employers with bona-fide job openings and developing and entering into formal binding training contracts as an official representative of the agency.