CDO Workforce coordinates and focuses employment, training and education development resources across three counties, providing service to employed people, unemployed people and employers alike. Our goal is to improve the long-term growth and development of the work force.
Department: Extended and Community Learning (ExCL) Center
Reports To: Director of the ExCL Center
Location: SUNY Oneonta, Downtown ExCL Center
Appointment Type: Full-Time, Professional Staff
Salary: SL3, $57,151
Position Summary:
SUNY Oneonta is seeking a Workforce Development Program Coordinator to join the Extended and Community Learning (ExCL) Center. The coordinator will represent SUNY Oneonta and the ExCL Center by advancing the University’s mission as a trusted regional leader and valued community partner. This position plays a key role in addressing community needs in education, economic development, and workforce readiness through responsive, high-quality programming and engagement. The ideal candidate will be a proactive, community-minded professional with strong project management, communication, and interpersonal skills, who thrives in both collaborative and independent environments. This role requires regular interaction with the community, regional partners, learners, and university personnel. While much of the work occurs at the downtown ExCL Center and SUNY Oneonta’s main campus, occasional travel within the tri-county area is required. The position involves both office-based work and event coordination in dynamic settings.
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Our goal is to help job seekers not just find a job, but develop and manage a career. That means helping them when they have a job and when they are looking. We also strive to help employers find the workers they need quickly and the resources to improve training, workforce retention and workforce restructuring.
A DRC is a Disability Resource Coordinator, someone who helps individuals with disabilities find employment.
High School Equivalency (HSE/GED) A high school equivalency or GED/HSE is a recognized alternative to a high school diploma.
Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students and job seekers with real-life work experience that compliments their academic studies. Typically they include job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships.
A Team Helper is anyone who is the lead support person to the job seeker with disabilities along their career journey. It can be a family member, friend, employment counselor, Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC), or case manager.
A stop-gap job is temporary employment until something better or more permanent can be obtained.
Basic needs refers to the goods and services necessary for a minimum standard of living. This includes access to food, safe shelter, clothing, and sanitation. Reliable transportation and education can also be considered a basic need.
A safe space is intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Competitive integrated employment (CIE) is work performed by a person with an impairment or health-related disability (health impairment) within an integrated setting. Wages are at least minimum wage or higher and at a rate comparable to non-disabled workers performing the same tasks.
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