About the Role
As a pedagogical specialist for career orientation and project coordination in schools, you will empower young people to develop realistic career prospects and successfully enter vocational training or employment. You will accompany and support young people directly at Berlin schools and after their school careers, making career orientation engaging, encouraging, and effective.
Responsibilities
- Conception and moderation of workshops for school classes in grades 9-11
- Individual counseling, coaching, and support for young people, including regular one-on-one meetings
- Support for young people in career orientation and the creation of individual career path plans
- Building and maintaining contacts and utilizing digital tools to support students
- Analysis and promotion of individual strengths and competencies of young people
- Intensive networking and cooperation with schools, companies, youth employment agencies, and other partners
- Support and guidance for young people in creating professional application documents and job searching
Requirements
- Completed vocational training or a degree in a relevant field
- Initial professional experience, e.g., in project management, working with young people, or the education sector
- Enjoyment of creating lively workshops, moderating them in a target-group-oriented manner, and trying out new methods
- Resilience, coordination and organizational talent, and experience in conflict and crisis management
- Enjoyment of working with diverse target groups, strong communication skills, and confident demeanor when dealing with decision-makers
- Good time management skills and organized daily work
- Ability to work independently, solution- and results-oriented, and constructively within a team
- Empathy in dealing with the concerns of disadvantaged youth, partner companies, and other project partners
Skills
- Project management
- Working with young people
- Education sector
- Workshop design and moderation
- Target-group-oriented moderation
- New methods
- Resilience
- Coordination
- Organization
- Conflict management
- Crisis management
- Communication
- Time management
- Independent work
- Solution-oriented
- Results-oriented
- Teamwork
- Empathy
- Networking
- Cooperation
- Digital tools
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- Mobile work possible
Experience Level
- Initial professional experience
Education Level
- Completed vocational training or a degree
Benefits
- Hands-on mentality allowing for idea implementation
- Possibility of partial mobile work
- Fully reimbursed Deutschlandticket
- Discounted Urban Sports membership
- Extra vacation days for birthday and Christmas
- Support for professional development through educational leave and internal training
- Ten full paid child sick days
- Regular regional and national employee events
- External employee counseling service (INSITE)
About the Company
- JOBLINGE is one of the most successful initiatives nationwide against youth unemployment.
- Since 2008, we have been supporting young adults with difficult starting conditions through our programs PLAN A, JOBLINGE, and basecamp on their path to training and employment.
- To date, we have accompanied more than 37,000 young people in our programs.
- In the JOBLINGE program, 80 percent of participants successfully enter the job market with our support, often after years of unemployment and lack of prospects.
- At over 30 locations nationwide, nearly 300 colleagues work with more than 2,700 volunteer mentors and over 4,000 partner companies across Germany to open up new perspectives for young people.
- We are also an important factor for our partner companies in acquiring skilled workers.
Equal Opportunity
- We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications – regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity.
