SR. CAREER SERVICES MANAGER - DOWNSTATE

Job Requisition ID: 51573 
Closing Date: 12/04/2025
​Agency: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Class Title: PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR - 37015 
Skill Option: General Administration/Business Marketing/Labor/Personnel 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary $8,300 - $8,732 monthly
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Sangamon
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: None
Merit Comp Code: Supervisory Exclusion from RC063 Collective Bargaining Coverage

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Position Overview

The Office of Illinois Works is implementing an exciting new team, Career Services, focused on engaging Pre-Apprenticeship Program graduates and supporting them as they move to the next steps in their career in construction and the trades. The Senior Career Services Manager will work in a very dynamic and impactful office within DCEO and will be charged with ensuring that high quality and timely career services are delivered to program graduates along with working with contractors and other external stakeholders to secure job opportunities for program graduates. We welcome interested individuals who are ready to be an entrepreneurial leader searching for opportunities for growth while having lifelong impact on thousands of people throughout the State of Illinois to apply.  

Essential Functions

• Directs the organization, planning, execution, and oversight of the Illinois Works Career Services Program for the Downstate Region, ensuring alignment with regional workforce development strategies and goals. 
• Oversees the delivery of comprehensive Career Planning Services to Illinois Works graduates, ensuring alignment with regional workforce development goals and objectives. 
• Serves as full-line supervisor. 
• Manages contractor and graduate relations.   
• Prepares and distributes reports.   
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college, preferably with courses in business or public administration. 
• Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or business organization. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer three (3) years’ experience working with contractors/employers to secure job opportunities for Illinois Works graduates. 
• Prefers two (2) years’ experience providing guidance counseling or career counseling. 
• Prefers three (3) years’ experience developing and implementing programmatic policies and procedures. 
• Prefers three (3) years’ experience supervising staff. 
• Prefers one (1) year experience overseeing program compliance and process improvement. 
• Prefers intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel Word, Outlook SharePoint and databases, with working knowledge of reporting tracking systems. 
• Prefers three (3) years’ experience and/or comprehensive working knowledge of state and/or federally funded pre-apprenticeship/apprenticeship training programs preferably of construction trades training programs and Dept. Of Labor apprenticeship program requirements.

Conditions of Employment