Community Partnerships Coordinator
Reports To: Executive Director/Program Manager
Status: Full-Time
Funding Allocation: Approximately 70% YouthBuild / 30% RCCR Community Partnerships & Engagement
Position Summary
The Community Partnerships Coordinator serves a dual role supporting YouthBuild workforce development as the job developer and RCCR’s broader community-engagement efforts.
Approximately 70% of the position is dedicated to YouthBuild and focuses on employer development, career readiness, apprenticeships, work experiences, job placement, employment retention, and postsecondary career pathways for YouthBuild participants.
Approximately 30% of the position supports RCCR-wide community partnerships, communications, special events, volunteer engagement, business relationships, and organizational visibility.
The position serves as a key external representative of RCCR, developing relationships that create opportunities for YouthBuild participants while expanding RCCR’s presence and partnerships throughout the community.
YouthBuild Responsibilities – Approximately 70%Employer & Career Pathway Development
· Develop and maintain relationships with employers that provide career opportunities aligned with YouthBuild participants’ interests, skills, and goals.
· Establish relationships with construction companies, contractors, skilled-trades employers, unions, apprenticeship programs, workforce agencies, and employers in other appropriate industries.
· Develop pathways from YouthBuild pre-apprenticeship training into registered apprenticeships, employment, advanced training, and other career opportunities.
· Identify internships, job-shadowing opportunities, work experiences, informational interviews, and other career-exposure activities.
· Conduct regular employer outreach and meetings to identify workforce needs and employment opportunities.
· Promote YouthBuild and its participants to prospective employers through presentations, meetings, networking, and direct outreach.
· Develop long-term employer relationships rather than relying solely on individual job openings.
· Identify opportunities for employer partners to participate in career panels, mock interviews, classroom presentations, worksite tours, mentoring, and other YouthBuild activities.
· Maintain relationships with postsecondary institutions, credentialing organizations, and training providers that can provide advancement opportunities for participants.
· Monitor local labor-market and employer trends to identify viable career pathways for YouthBuild participants.
Career Readiness & Participant Preparation
· Meet with participants to understand their employment interests, career goals, skills, and placement needs.
· Coordinate closely with the YouthBuild Coordinator/Case Manager regarding participant readiness, barriers, goals, and transition planning.
· Provide individual and group career-readiness instruction.
· Assist participants with resumes, job applications, job-search strategies, interviewing skills, workplace communication, professional expectations, and workplace behavior.
· Conduct or coordinate mock interviews and other employment-preparation activities.
· Help participants understand available apprenticeship, employment, postsecondary, and advanced-training pathways.
· Ensure participants are appropriately prepared before referral to prospective employers.
· Coordinate career fairs, employer panels, recruitment events, job-site visits, guest speakers, and other career-development activities.
Job Placement & Employment Retention
· Match employment-ready YouthBuild participants with appropriate employment, apprenticeship, work-experience, or advanced-training opportunities.
· Facilitate introductions and interviews between participants and employers.
· Maintain communication with participants and employers following placement.
· Provide employment-retention support throughout the required follow-up period.
· Intervene when attendance, communication, performance, transportation, workplace conflict, or other barriers threaten a participant’s employment.
· Provide appropriate mediation between participants and employers when necessary.
· Work with the YouthBuild Coordinator to connect participants with supportive services needed to maintain employment.
· Help participants pursue advancement, increased wages, additional credentials, or higher-level career opportunities when appropriate.
Placement Documentation & Performance
· Track employer contacts, referrals, interviews, job offers, placements, starting wages, hours, apprenticeship enrollment, postsecondary enrollment, and other outcomes.
· Obtain and maintain required employment and placement verification, including employer verification, pay documentation, enrollment verification, or other required records.
· Track employment and postsecondary retention throughout the required follow-up period.
· Maintain accurate employer and workforce-partner records.
· Assist with required YouthBuild data entry and performance reporting.
· Maintain documentation necessary to demonstrate achievement of placement and retention outcomes.
· Participate in YouthBuild staff meetings, case conferences, partner meetings, monitoring activities, and program-improvement efforts.
YouthBuild Community & Business Engagement
· Represent YouthBuild at workforce-development, employer, industry, apprenticeship, Chamber, and business meetings when participation supports YouthBuild employment and partnership objectives.
· Network throughout the public and private sectors to increase awareness of YouthBuild and develop opportunities for participants.
· Develop partnerships with businesses and community organizations that can provide employment, mentoring, training, volunteer, or career-development opportunities.
· Assist program leadership in strengthening YouthBuild’s reputation among employers and workforce partners.
RCCR Community Partnerships & Engagement – Approximately 30%Community Partnerships
· Develop and maintain relationships with businesses, civic organizations, educational institutions, churches, nonprofits, government agencies, neighborhood organizations, and other community stakeholders.
· Represent RCCR at community, civic, business, neighborhood, and partnership meetings as assigned.
· Identify opportunities for RCCR participation in community events, presentations, resource fairs, collaborative initiatives, and volunteer activities.
· Develop relationships with businesses interested in sponsorships, volunteer opportunities, in-kind contributions, or other support for RCCR.
· Maintain organized records of community partners, sponsors, volunteers, and partnership opportunities.
· Coordinate partner recognition and stewardship activities.
· Help connect RCCR program managers with potential community and business partners.
Annual Housing Fair
· Serve as the primary staff coordinator for RCCR’s Annual Housing Fair.
· Recruit and coordinate exhibitors, community partners, sponsors, presenters, and volunteers.
· Coordinate event logistics, outreach, promotion, registration, materials, and event-day activities.
· Work with RCCR programs and partners to ensure broad representation of housing and community resources.
· Conduct post-event follow-up and maintain relationships developed through the Housing Fair.
Annual Fundraiser
· Coordinate planning and implementation of RCCR’s annual fundraiser.
· Recruit participating businesses, teams, sponsors, volunteers, and community partners.
· Coordinate event logistics, promotion, registration, sponsorship recognition, and event-day activities.
· Work with RCCR leadership to expand participation and community awareness of the event.
Volunteer Engagement
· Serve as RCCR’s primary liaison with annual volunteer community events
· Identify appropriate RCCR projects and coordinate volunteers, supplies, schedules, staff involvement, and partner communication.
· Coordinate other corporate, college, church, and community volunteer activities throughout the year.
· Develop relationships with organizations interested in recurring volunteer partnerships.
Communications & Community Awareness
· Coordinate and distribute RCCR’s bi-monthly Constant Contact communication/newsletter.
· Gather program updates, success stories, accomplishments, events, photographs, and other information from RCCR staff for inclusion.
· Maintain an organizational calendar of community events, outreach opportunities, partnership meetings, and major RCCR activities.
· Assist with promoting RCCR programs, events, accomplishments, and partnership opportunities.
· Coordinate RCCR’s presence at community fairs, festivals, resource events, and other public activities.
· Assist with preparation of organizational materials, presentations, displays, and outreach information.
· Help ensure consistent communication and follow-up with RCCR’s community partners.
Organizational Representation
· Serve as an RCCR ambassador at external meetings and events as directed.
· Increase awareness of RCCR’s housing, homelessness, recovery, workforce-development, and community-development programs.
· Identify new partnership opportunities and communicate those opportunities to appropriate RCCR leadership and program staff.
· Build relationships that strengthen RCCR’s visibility, referral networks, volunteer base, employer connections, and community support.
Planning, Documentation & Accountability
· Develop annual goals for employer development, participant placements, community partnerships, communications, events, and outreach.
· Maintain calendars, contact records, event documentation, and partnership information.
· Provide regular updates to leadership regarding employer development, participant placement, community partnerships, upcoming events, and outreach activities.
· Maintain sufficient documentation of work activities to appropriately distinguish YouthBuild-funded responsibilities from RCCR-funded community-engagement responsibilities.
· Coordinate with RCCR leadership and program managers to prioritize external engagement activities.
· Perform other related duties consistent with the position, funding requirements, and RCCR’s mission.
Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in business, communications, workforce development, marketing, human services, public relations, or related field preferred; relevant professional experience may substitute for education.
· Experience in workforce development, employer relations, job development, community engagement, business development, nonprofit outreach, event coordination, or related work preferred.
· Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to develop professional relationships.
· Comfortable engaging employers, business leaders, civic organizations, participants, volunteers, and community partners.
· Strong public-speaking, presentation, and written-communication skills.
· Strong organizational and event-management skills.
· Ability to independently develop relationships, generate opportunities, and follow projects through completion.
· Ability to manage multiple projects, events, deadlines, and relationships simultaneously.
· Proficiency with standard computer applications and electronic communication platforms.
· Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the service area and attend occasional community events outside normal business hours.
· Knowledge of community resources and experience working with community organizations.
· Ability to use client management systems and Microsoft Office 365 programs, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements
· Maintains physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities, which may include walking, bending, stretching, lifting, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time and operating assigned equipment.
Pay: $52,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
