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Career Center Consultant - Veterans Representative

State of Maine

Brunswick, Maine

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$20.68–$28.88 Per Hour
SKILLS
Business Services, Career Counseling, Communication Skills, Consulting, Control Systems, Customer Support/Service, Disability Accommodations, Diversity, Establish Priorities, Federal Grants, Interpersonal Skills, Interviewing Skills, Job Fairs, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Service Delivery, Team Player, Time Management, Trade Shows, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Brunswick, Maine
POSTED
2 days ago
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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

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