Employment Specialist 2 (BES2) – Limited Duration Opportunity in Newport

Oregon City Oregon; Newport; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in United Kingdom is seeking candidates for a role to assist job seekers in assessing skills and overcoming barriers to employment. Responsibilities include providing referrals to services, tracking progress, and ensuring high-quality customer interactions. Candidates should demonstrate resilience, multitasking abilities, and customer focus. This is a limited duration assignment with the potential for future funding and permanence.

Qualifications

• Ability to attend to multiple tasks simultaneously and remain calm.
• Customer service skills to exceed client expectations.
• Adaptability in changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Meet one-on-one with job seekers to assess their skills and goals.
• Provide referrals to various community resources.
• Help identify and solve barriers to employment.

Skills

Multi-tasking

Customer Focus

Resilience

Working with Information

Job description

* Support Job Seekers: Meet one-on-one with Oregonians to assess their transferable skills, interests, and employment goals.* Connect to Resources: Provide referrals and access to services such as STEP support, work experience opportunities, GED/high school completion programs, training, and community-based resources.* Break Down Barriers: Help identify and address obstacles to employment, offering solutions and support to overcome them.* Track Progress: Use program data systems to monitor activities, attendance, and outcomes to ensure success.* Commitment to valuing diversity and promoting inclusion.* Multi-tasking: Ability to attend to multiple tasks simultaneously and enthusiastically, deliver high quality work on time and remain productive and calm in pressured environments.* Customer Focus: Ability to professionally interact with a high volume of diverse customers providing service that exceeds the customers’ expectations.* Resilience: Ability to be comfortable with changing or uncertain environments. An ability to remain professional, calm and adaptive communication style with diverse customer needs or customers that are frustrated, upset or critical.* Working with Information: Ability to efficiently and effectively use data, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning to gather information and apply laws, rules and policies to solve problems and make decisions. Ability to comply with requirements regarding sensitive and confidential data.**Required: Attach a resume and cover letter****.** Your cover letter must not exceed two (2) pages. Please make sure your cover letter clearly addresses the desired attributes and minimum qualifications you have under the “What We Are Looking For” section above. **Please upload your documents in the “Resume/Cover Letter” section of the application.** In addition to your related work experience and education, we will use the desired attributes and required minimum qualifications to determine who to interview.This is a **limited duration assignment** currently funded through **(10/13/26)**. Limited duration appointments are regular status and benefits eligible. **This position may be extended beyond this date and/or have continued funding approved in the future with the potential to become permanent.** **Veterans:** Eligible veterans who meet the qualifications of the position will be awarded veterans' preference. For more information, please visit .