ASAP Case Manager
ASAP Case Manager
No matter where you are on your professional journey, picture the beauty of a road less traveled. Whether your career is just beginning in the Golden Heart City or you are answering a call to the Last Frontier from another part of the globe, Tanana Chiefs Conference has an opportunity that will speak to your sense of adventure and a community that you can call home.
Representative Duties:
- Manages an active participant caseload that will coordinate ongoing client assessments to identify needs, strengths, and barriers related to personal, social, educational and employment goals.
- Performs Needs Assessment to identify skills, work experience, educational needs, and training needs to achieve employment of each adult caretaker or parent receiving assistance in the PL 102-477 Programs.
- Will work with the Tribal Workforce Development Specialist in order to help applicants and recipients of the PL 102-477 Program to complete self-sufficiency plans, needs assessments and monitor on-going case management.
- Coordinates work supportive services that are approved in the PL 102-477 plan and Alaska Temporary Assistance Manuel that have been identified on Needs Assessment and written on the client’s family self-sufficiency plan.
- Tracks and Monitors all client cases to assure clients compliance with mandated federal work activity and state requirements. Meets all work participation rates for community service or work activity requirements within the federal guidelines. Monitors and makes recommendation of any sanctions within program guidelines to the Eligibility Specialist.
- Along with the Special Projects Assistant coordinates subsidized employment for targeted recipients that are under PL 102-477, developing job contracts with outside employers, processing reimbursement payments to employers, communicating with Eligibility Specialist when recipient is employed.
- Will provide post case management to working clients whose cases have closed, and perform home visits and work site visits to recipients of the PL 102-477 Program.
- Compiles and collects data relating to clients progress and prepares monthly or weekly reports to Work Assistance Program Director. Responsible for maintaining adequate documentation within program guidelines.
- Conducts program surveys and data entry of survey results on recipients of the PL 102-477 programs.
- Coordinates information and provides any technical assistance for Tribal Workforce Development Specialists. Assists TWDS in meeting local work participation rates or coordinating services.
- Responds to client and staff or outside agency inquires through visits and telephonically.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school Diploma or GED equivalent.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Rural Development, Social work or related field of study required. May substitute work experience on a year-by-year basis.
- Minimum two years of work experience in working with public and or employment assistance programs or two years of counseling experience. Vocational counseling experience helpful.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret federal regulations and program requirements.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment and familiarity with various menu driven software programs.
- Strong computer skills using Microsoft Office such as Word, Publisher, and Excel.
- Must pass background check pursuant to Alaska DHSS and federal Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act requirements.
Job Summary: Job incumbent is responsible for assisting families and individuals who are unemployed or at risk clients and families receiving assistance in the PL 102-477 programs. Responsible for planning, developing, initiating and coordinating client services focusing on assessment of interests, aptitudes, removal of barriers to employment, development of prevocational job related skills, on the job training, job placement, job coaching and job retention. The primary objective is to identify client’s strengths, needs, and barriers related to employment and in becoming self-sufficient. Job incumbent will work with the families and individuals to assess skills, work experience, educational needs, barriers to achieving independence, and the employability of each adult caretaker or parent.
This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents.
Please visit our website https://careers.tananachiefs.org/ for a complete and accurate job description.
Benefits offered:
- 15 days PTO the first year
- 12 days employer paid Holiday’s
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Healthcare spending or reimbursement accounts such as HSAs or FSAs
- Retirement benefits
- Education assistance or tuition reimbursement