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Position: CareerCenter Consultant
Job Class Code: 0723
Grade: 20 Professional Technical
Salary: $20.68/hr - $28.88/hr
Location: Brunswick
Opening Date: July 14, 2026
Closing Date: July 28, 2026
Job Summary:
Would you like to join a team of hardworking professionals who support Maine’s workforce with an additional focus on veterans, eligible spouses of veterans, and businesses across Maine? If you are a veteran or eligible spouse (see minimum qualifications), enjoy working with the public, and want to make a difference by helping job seekers connect with jobs and businesses connect with workers, then this career is for you! The successful candidate will spend their time focused on connecting Maine’s veteran population to good jobs. They will deliver workforce services to job-seeking veterans and businesses. Don’t miss out on this opportunity, especially if you have prior experience in veteran services, vocational services, or career counseling, and/or business services.
Frequent regional and occasional statewide travel is required and reimbursed at the current approved state mileage rate.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Conduct interviews, vocational assessments, and provide career guidance; coordinate support services; refer customers to programs or services; and make referrals to job openings.
- Conduct outreach efforts, including off-site hours at locations where job seekers, specifically veterans, may spend time, including other veteran agencies.
- Develop and conduct workshops.
- Deliver business services to area employers in order to develop employment opportunities for customers.
- Conduct and participate in informational sessions, job fairs, and trade shows.
- Develop and negotiate training agreements for apprenticeship programs, internships, and on-the-job-training employment opportunities for employers/businesses.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of job search strategies and workforce placement techniques.
- Ability to assess individual skills, interests, and needs in relation to career opportunities.
- Strong interview and consulting skills.
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse customer base.
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.
Minimum qualifications:
Any combination of education and/or work experience that demonstrates competency in:
- Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively working with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences, effectively communicates and works with coworkers as team members.
- Customer/Quality Skills: Anticipates, monitors, and meets the needs of customers and responds to them in an effective, appropriate manner. Demonstrates commitment to identifying customers’ apparent and underlying needs and continually seeks to provide the highest quality service and product to all customers.
- Accountability Skills: Holds self-accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives and sets priorities. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Accountable for own development, including learning necessary job knowledge and associated laws, rules, and policies. Identifies and participates in learning opportunities. Complies with established control systems and rules.
- Planning/Organization Skills: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals for self and strategies to achieve them. Using flexibility and resiliency skills, appropriately and effectively adjusts work, plans, and priorities to changing circumstances. Monitors own progress and evaluates outcomes.
Additional Requirements: As required by federal grant, the successful candidate will be a qualified service-connected disabled veteran, a qualified eligible veteran, or other qualified eligible persons as defined by Title 38, USC, Section 4101(5). The successful candidate will attend live, instructor-led virtual training provided by the National Veterans’ Training Institute (NVTI) and paid for by the US Department of Labor. The training must be completed within 12 months of hire and will be considered work time for compensation purposes. Transportation for regional travel will be required regularly and reimbursed at the State of Maine per-mile rate. Statewide travel will be occasionally required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience serving people with diverse backgrounds.
- Experience serving military veterans.
- Experience working with businesses and community organizations, particularly for workforce development purposes.
- A high level of experience in Microsoft office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Experience using virtual platforms and understanding of virtual services.
Contact Information: Questions about this position should be directed to: Rene.L.Smith@Maine.gov
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