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Description
West Virginia University Research Corporation is seeking applications for a Disability Employment Specialist with the Center for Excellence in Disabilities
About the Opportunity
West Virginia has one of the highest proportions of individuals with disabilities in the nation. Unfortunately, our state also has one of the highest unemployment rates among individuals with disabilities in the nation. The purpose of this position is to identify, coordinate, and evaluate employment-related initiatives within the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities (WVU CED). Employment is one of four areas of emphasis for the WVU CED and involves many state, regional, and national partners who share the mission of increasing employment among individuals with disabilities. This position will provide center-wide program development and advise all center employment related programs and client service. Additionally, this position will contribute to center success participating in strategic employment planning with partners and provide needed oversight for employment groups to share information from national models, state demonstration projects, and materials and trainings, that facilitate employment policies and practices supportive of individuals with disabilities.
This is a new role within the WVU CED. The number of partner and center initiatives with an employment focus have risen drastically over the last five years with no one available to coordinate efforts, identify lessons learned, produce information that could invoke policy changes statewide, and stimulate collaborative research in this area. The person in this role will work independently with partners but collaboratively with the center director to ensure key elements are included in the strategic planning across programs.
This position serves as a resource contact and independently uses professional concepts and techniques, as well as organizational policies, to solve a wide range of moderate to complex problems in imaginative and practical ways. Depth skills, knowledge, and interpretive abilities, as well as some creativity, are required to successfully perform duties. Work effort often addresses non-routine matters within established protocol, guidelines, and/or policies. Work effort has significant impact on client services and operations, producing moderate to major organizational, legal and financial results and/or liabilities. Position duties may require oversight of projects or programs, including coordination of work by others providing support of basic objectives. This position supervises at least one position that focuses on client employment needs upon intake. Finally, position duties must be on-site rather than remote as these activities require relationship building and direct client employment capacity assessment.
The primary function of the position is to provide support to center team members and state partners in areas related to identifying employing individuals with disabilities and how to apply those opportunities in innovative ways.
At WVU Research Corporation, we strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU Research Corporation offers a comprehensive benefits package with a variety of options to suit your needs:
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• PTO
• 403(b) retirement savings with a fully vested 3% employee contribution match, (Employees have the option of contributing an additional 1-3% of their earnings to the plan, which is also matched by the WVURC)
• A range of health insurance and various other benefits
• Dependent Education Scholarship
• WVU Perks
• And More!!
What you’ll do:
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