"Employment Services Professional"

Job Details

Department: TEACCH - Employment Services-427481

Career Area: Other

Is this an internal only recruitment?: No

Posting Open Date: 09/03/2025

Application Deadline: 09/22/2025

Position Type: Permanent Staff (SHRA)

Position Title: Human Services Prog Spprt Tech - Advanced

Salary Grade Equivalent: NC03 / GN05

Working Title: Employment Services Professional

Position Number: 20032279

Vacancy ID: P020494

Full-time/Part-time Permanent/Time-Limited: Full-Time Permanent

Hours per week: 40

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Work Location: GREENSBORO, NC

Position Location: North Carolina, US

Hiring Range: $34,434 - $41,866

Be a Tar Heel!: This Employment Services Professional position is located in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina. Our office is located at 925 Revolution Mill Drive in Greensboro most of our work is performed in the community. We provide employment related services to roughly 500 individuals on the autism spectrum in competitive employment that are spread all over the Triad and surrounding communities. The candidate selected for this position will work with the autism population, employers, families, and the rest of our dedicated team to help people realize their career goals. Join us and be a member of one of the best, if not the best, autism specific employment program in the world.

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit: Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research. Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond. Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce. Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary: The purpose of this position is to assist individuals who have an autism spectrum diagnosis, to meet employment needs. This position further involves coordination of responsibilities involving planning program services/activities, monitoring, evaluating and modifying program activities; and developing resources. As part of the TEACCH and Employment Services philosophy, all staff members including administrative staff members will work directly with adults with autism as part of their job. This position is not center based, and all services are provided in the community. We are required to travel great distances, sometimes at a moment’s notice. Individuals in this position are required to work alone in the community providing supports to autistic adults. In addition to working with autistic adults, we work closely with the other support systems of the individual. This includes but is not limited to, additional family members, employers, other provider agencies, medical staff, residential providers, and local mental health agencies and other providers of funding for the services provided by TEACCH Employment Services. As a result, members of the staff must display good communication skills to maintain positive relationships with the community at large. This position provides services to 15-20 individuals on the autism spectrum who are often new to our Employment Program. They are responsible for guiding these adult individuals through the entire employment process, from intake, to assessment, to finding a job that matches that individual’s skills as identified in the assessment and provide tailored training for competence on the job until the individual achieves competency. They work with a range of individuals, from the most severely impacted to those that are mildly impacted. They set their own schedules and perform all their duties with minimal to no supervision. Their caseload changes from month to month. They work to develop new employment sites through direct contact with employers.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience: Knowledge of the autistic population.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience: Experience working with people on the autism spectrum or with intellectual/developmental disabilities.

Required Licenses/Certifications: Valid driver’s license.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements: Must be able to work in person and perform the same job duties as the client. Demonstration work skills is a part of this position.

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities: Not Applicable.

Position/Schedule Requirements: Evening work occasionally, Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens, Night work occasionally, Overtime occasionally, Valid NC Driver’s License, Weekend work occasionally