"We love our veterans into a future they can scarcely imagine."
— Career Coach
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We are in the business of changing lives. Yes, the technology, resources and networks are important; but it's our dedicated volunteers who make all the difference. If you want to help a veteran launch a meaningful new career, consider one of these roles:
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Volunteer position descriptions
Career / Success Coach
Career Success Coaches are the heart of our Career Launch programs for veterans transitioning to jobs in the growth economy. It is through our Success Coaches that we actualize our mission on an individual level, “to love our veterans into a future they can scarcely imagine.”
Success Coaches have overall ownership for an individual veteran’s successful career launch. We define that to be sustainable employment in any organization that uses the skills required. The Success Coach guides each veteran through the entire process, from enrollment to a solid career launch in their chosen field. He/she ensures that the veteran takes full advantage of available training and resources to achieve this launch goal.
The projected commitment for this assignment is 8 to 24 hours total over a period of 9 months, allocated as follows: Preparation Phase: 6-20 hours over 60-120 days; Launch Phase: 2-4 hours over 180 days. These estimates can vary widely, depending on how much “love” you have to give.
Many companies provide a matching grant for volunteer work, so your donated hours as a Success Coach can be a multiplier. The additional financial support goes a surprisingly long way toward helping veterans make successful career transitions.
Description:
Good to have:
Success Coaches have overall ownership for an individual veteran’s successful career launch. We define that to be sustainable employment in any organization that uses the skills required. The Success Coach guides each veteran through the entire process, from enrollment to a solid career launch in their chosen field. He/she ensures that the veteran takes full advantage of available training and resources to achieve this launch goal.
The projected commitment for this assignment is 8 to 24 hours total over a period of 9 months, allocated as follows: Preparation Phase: 6-20 hours over 60-120 days; Launch Phase: 2-4 hours over 180 days. These estimates can vary widely, depending on how much “love” you have to give.
Many companies provide a matching grant for volunteer work, so your donated hours as a Success Coach can be a multiplier. The additional financial support goes a surprisingly long way toward helping veterans make successful career transitions.
Description:
- Helps veteran with transition into the civilian workplace as needed, with resume preparation, workplace protocols, business communications basics, professional networking (e.g., using LinkedIn, local user groups, etc.) and other personal support;
- Ensures that the veteran stays focused on steady, measurable progress, and takes full advantage of available training and other resources provided;
- Provides job networking advice and interview preparation support;
- Makes introductions and recommendations to hiring managers at target employers;
- Educates potential employers about the advantage of sponsoring workplace learning programs and/or hiring newly trained veterans;
- Coordinates as needed with other Success Team members, e.g., sponsoring VSO, Learning Coach, training facilities, potential employers;
- Provides feedback to Veterans2Work focused on improving the effectiveness of the program.
Good to have:
- Desire to help a returning service member successfully launch a new civilian career;
- 5+ years of business experience;
- A good professional network or the ability to reach potential employers on the veteran’s behalf;
- Prior military service, though helpful, is not required.
Learning Coach
Learning Coaches are content experts, steeped in the practical application of the the curriculum. They are both mentors and ready resources to their veteran students, helping them understand and incorporate new material
Learning Coaches are always focused on the pragmatic, providing support in the context of a successful career launch.
The total projected commitment for this assignment is 1-2 hours per week over a period of 12-24 weeks.
NOTE: Your company may provide a matching grant for volunteer work, so your donated hours can translate to additional financial support that goes a surprisingly long way toward helping other veterans make successful career transitions.
Description:
Good to have:
Learning Coaches are always focused on the pragmatic, providing support in the context of a successful career launch.
The total projected commitment for this assignment is 1-2 hours per week over a period of 12-24 weeks.
NOTE: Your company may provide a matching grant for volunteer work, so your donated hours can translate to additional financial support that goes a surprisingly long way toward helping other veterans make successful career transitions.
Description:
- Helps veteran learn and apply training;
- Makes introductions and recommendations to hiring managers at target employers;
- Coordinates with other Success Team members, e.g., sponsoring VSO, Learning Coach, training facilities, potential employers;
- Provides feedback to Veterans2Work for improving the effectiveness of the program.
Good to have:
- Desire to help a returning service member successfully launch a new civilian career;
- Solid familiarity with the technology / application
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- Measurable outcomes. For the veterans enrolled in our Career Launch programs, six months continuous employment is the end objective. Our average success rate is just shy of 80%, average time to train, prepare and place is 90 days, with an average all-in cost of $3,500. The placement of veterans using the VetMatch predictive hiring tool is expected to cost less than $1,000.
- Low costs. We are able to deliver such results at such low costs because of our unique and robust network of volunteers, partners and employers, and donated resources.
- High returns. As measured against the benefits, these are unusually high performing investments. Our $3,500 expense, for example, to retool and launch a veteran into a high growth career, yields a 5,000% return when measured against the difference in net present value of expected lifetime earnings. The returns on VetMatch placements are similarly outsize.
- 100% funding efficiency. We allocate income earned from employer services first to overhead. This we do to realize our goal of applying 100% of donated funds to the core mission.
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