Workforce Development Partner

CONTRACTED EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING PROVIDER

Core deliverables

• Create a referral and scheduling process with RRB and assess each participant’s employment interests, skills, work history, documentation needs, barriers, and training readiness.
• Provide job-readiness coaching, resume and application support, interview preparation, and workplace-expectations guidance.
• Connect participants to occupational training, apprenticeships, credential programs, fair-chance employers, and appropriate supportive services.
• Deliver the budgeted workforce-readiness workshop and track referrals, engagement, training enrollment, interviews, placement, and other agreed outcomes.
• Coordinate with the Reentry Navigator on barriers and follow-up while maintaining participant privacy and clear professional boundaries.

Preferred qualifications

• Demonstrated experience serving returning citizens or jobseekers facing significant employment barriers.
• Established relationships with Baltimore-area employers, training providers, or apprenticeship programs.
• Knowledge of fair-chance hiring, record-related employment barriers, workforce funding, supportive-service resources, and measurable outcome reporting.

Program targets

• At least 60% of participants referred to workforce services and at least 50% engaged.
• At least 35% of participants obtain employment or enter training, subject to final grant measurement rules.

Contract manager

Restorative Program Manager or designated RRB program lead

Status

Independent contractor or partner-agency agreement

Service area

Job readiness, training navigation, employment placement, and retention support

Approved allocation

$1,500 for 30 budgeted hours at $50/hour, plus one $475 readiness workshop

Restorative Response Baltimore is an equal opportunity employer. We are

committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.