Match Grant Specialist (Part-time) - 2024526

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.  In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
World Relief seeks a Match Grant Specialist to provide direct client services and referrals to refugees enrolled in the Match Grant Program of World Relief Fort Worth. These services are related to both employment services and general case management.

Role & Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


• Provide Match Grant (MG) specific orientation to all suitable clients and process enrollments in a timely manner, including opening new case files.
• Provide case management services in accordance with the grant agreement for 240 days. Including regular in-person contact, financial support, accountability and connection to resources as needed.
• Provide employment services, including job readiness training, resume building, and application assistance to clients.
• Work with clients to remove barriers to employment and realize the goal of family self-sufficiency.
• Provide services that empower and strengthen clients’ motivation to formulate realistic yet ambitious resettlement plans and capacities to become self-sufficient within 240 days.
• Work with colleagues, resettlement partners, volunteers, and employment staff to ensure that client’s needs are met in a planned, effective, and timely manner, while honoring confidentiality.
• Document all contacts and services in client case files and maintain case note logs. Keep the MG file up-to-date with required forms and reports.
• Administer program funds to clients according to program policies and procedures. Keeping up-to-date documentation and staying within the predetermined budget constraints.
• Assist with scheduling and providing transportation to client appointments
• Provide one-on-one and/or group employment training
• Assist clients with job search activities including completing and submitting applications, and attending interviews
• Facilitate referrals for basic services available to refugee clients through efficient communication with interns, volunteers and community resource providers.
• Attend trainings and conferences as requested by supervisor
• Perform all duties in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner
• Undertake other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Multicultural competency, the ability to work with people from other cultures who have varying degrees of proficiency with the English language.
• Computer competency, including the use of MS Office applications, the internet, and electronic databases
• Great people skills, including the ability to coach clients and interact with staff and employers in a business setting sometimes under pressure
• Detail-oriented, quick-learner, and have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Requirements

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document