YouthBuild Contract Specialist

We invite you to join Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation, a Missouri Community Action Agency, as part of our expanding Adult Education program. The YouthBuild Contract Specialist oversees and directs the planning, organizing, and implementation of the YouthBuild Program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the daily operations of the YouthBuild program, including the coordination of the education, construction, life skills, job placement, leadership, and case management components.
• Develop and implement a program participant recruiting strategy.
• Ensure the educational, vocational and/or job placement of YouthBuild graduates, in coordination with other YouthBuild staff.
• Manage the YouthBuild contract and budget, including ensuring allowability of costs, tracking expenses, and appropriately distributing and documenting participant support funding.
• Manage all grant reporting and data tracking per Department of Labor YouthBuild and YouthBuild USA requirements. Ensure accurate and timely reporting and that project is meeting program outcomes.
• Cultivate and maintain community partnerships to achieve YouthBuild outcomes; manage Memorandums of Understandings (MOUs) and other key collaborations.
• Develop systems and program operations in conjunction with YouthBuild and other agency staff and participants. Maintain a focus on continuous quality improvement.
• Participate in YouthBuild USA committees, training opportunities and events as needed; ensure continuous improvement via YouthBuild USA certifications and affiliation.
• Submits monthly requisitions for assistance to A/P and submits billing to appropriate funding source
• Provide daily supervision to a crew of program participants engaged in work-based learning on an affordable housing construction site.
• Facilitate construction training curriculum to meet the standards of industry-recognized credentials, including carpentry skills, proper tool and equipment usage, demolition, framing, insulation, roofing, drywall, and finish carpentry.
• Serve as a liaison and on-site contact for general contractors, sub-contractors, and project sponsors.
• Serve as Safety Officer, ensuring program participants follow proper safety procedures and protocols, including MHYC and OSHA standards. Promote a positive safety culture.
• Provide consistent and ongoing feedback, formal and informal, to all program participants.
• Promote a solution-focused youth development environment in which program participants have the opportunity to develop new skills
• Maintain thorough records throughout the length of the program, including, but not limited to tracking programmatic activities, training, project accomplishments, daily attendance and time records.
• Support YouthBuild Program efforts to lead program participants toward achieving program goals, including high-quality project completion, certificate and diploma attainment, post-program placement, and positive program participant experiences.
  

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position supervises the YouthBuild Case Manager/Job Recruiter.

Education and/or Experience and Professional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 2 years experience in construction management
• Past supervisory role is preferred.
  

Other Qualifications:

• Must be able to work a flexible schedule which will include evenings. Must be able to travel the six-county area occasionally and go out-of-area on a periodic basis.

DAEOC is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment based on race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin or other protected classification.