Odyssea (A Non-Profit Organization based in Athens - Greece) has recently established a new Employability department and is looking for talented people to join its dynamic team in order to progress its impactful goals. Empowering someone with the skills needed to integrate with the world of work is one of the most important ways to create self reliance and agency. The role of the employability program officer will be to analyze the labor market information to identify job opportunities for Odyssea job seekers. It also involves supporting the team leader in all aspects related to performing profiling, job-matching and mentoring tasks to help job seekers find jobs within agreed timescales.
Responsibilities- Use labor market information to research and build additional relationships with employers, creating further employment opportunities
- Expand network of hiring companies based on data collected and analysed by the employability officer by contacting the relevant hiring companies
- Interview and register applicants on weekly basis
- Propose jobs to job seekers
- Propose people to companies
- Follow up with jobseekers after referring them to employers, and /or after being hired
- Maintain a record system, case notes and other electronic files to ensure high quality standards
- Work closely with staff in the development of monitoring and documentation tools to capture the progress and outcomes of the project, as well as issue-based research tools
- Support the development and timely implementation of Odyssea’s working plans related to aforementioned activities of responsibility.
- Identify, map, report and develop relationships with relevant partner organisations focused on employability services.