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Sacramento Career Opportunities
Department: Resettlement
Schedule: Full Time
The Senior Grants Specialist works within the Community Engagement team and with all World Relief Sacramento (WRS) departments, with their primary goal being to write and support the creation of funding proposals that align with WRS’s strategic plan to provide vital, quality services to program participants. The Senior Grants Specialist will research and identify potential funding opportunities, and work alongside program areas to embed the principles of evidence-based program design, monitoring, evaluation and reporting through proposal development to program implementation.
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Department: Education and Wellness
Schedule: Full Time
The Dari and Pashto-speaking Casework Specialist helps especially vulnerable refugees create stability, developing self-sufficiency plans through a realistic and strengths-based approach, and actively providing appropriate services, enrollments, and referrals based on client need, strengths, and goals. This position is responsible for hosting integration classes, providing translation/interpretation, maintaining accurate and complete case files, and providing individualized client support. The role is part of a larger team and requires working closely with other staff members to design the program and help clients reach goals. This position may require traveling to each class site once a week to present and/or interpret.
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Department: Immigration Legal Services
Schedule: Full Time
The Navigator position is a liaison between Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) Afghan parolees through the ILS and Preferred Communities (PC) programs and community-based service providers. The position increases the capacity of the ILS program to meet the legal needs of the impacted OAW community with an emphasis on Dari/Pashto interpretation, translation, screening, and immigration form preparation under the supervision of licensed legal practitioners. This position requires organizing meetings with community leaders, recruiting volunteers, and conducting community education programming. This position also requires strong oral and written communication skills.
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Department: Education and Wellness
Schedule: Part Time
The ESL Instructor helps refugees learn the basics of English, from speaking simple survival phrases to building basic numeracy and literacy skills, thus fostering self-sufficiency. Instruction may take place virtually or in person. While the majority of this position focuses on teaching preliterate refugee women, the ESL instructor may also develop and implement new ESL curricula to meet the language needs of clients from diverse cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds. The ESL Instructor also supports and gives direction to volunteers who serve as in-class teaching assistants, provide one-on-one tutoring support to clients, and/or assist in material drop-offs. Additionally, this position assists with client recruitment, enrollment, assessment, record keeping, and reporting. Note that this is a limited-term position, ending 6/30/2023, unless additional funding is secured.
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Department: Employment
Schedule: Full Time
The Employment Specialist position is part of the Economic Empowerment Department, with a focus on rapid stabilization and employment placement and retention services for newly arrived refugees. This position is responsible for managing a caseload, employment related casework, assisting clients in developing holistic self-sufficiency plans, specifically guiding participants toward integration and eliminating barriers to employment. This position collaborates with the Economic Empowerment Education Specialist to ensure clients benefit from Job Readiness Training and collaborates closely with the Workforce Development Specialist to find job placements for clients and to provide onboarding and retention support. This position works directly with clients, employers, and other community service providers including the Department of Human Assistance.
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Department: Office Management
Schedule: Full-Time
The Resource and Intake Coordinator will support refugees and immigrants by connecting them with services and resources necessary in their journey for stability in their new community. This position will also work closely with local and national organizations as we strive to support our new neighbors even when World Relief Sacramento is not able to provide the services ourselves.
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Department: Resettlement
Schedule: Full-Time
This Health Navigation Coordinator is responsible for supporting newly arrived Afghans in accessing comprehensive healthcare services and building client self-sufficiency in navigating healthcare systems. This position will work with the Resettlement team to provide new arrivals with case management, services, individual coaching, and connection to resources and benefits. The position focuses on creating stability and uses a strengths-based case management approach to address client needs and promote long-term self-sufficiency in accessing medical care. This position operates within grant-funded programs, requiring specific services to be provided within set timeframes and appropriate documentation of all activities. The role is part of a larger integration team and is responsible for the success of their assigned cases, as determined by the client experience, program outcomes, timeliness and accuracy of reporting, and collaboration with colleagues.
Department: Resettlement
Schedule: Full Time
This Dari-speaking Resettlement Specialist is responsible for guiding newly arrived refugees and other qualifying immigrants through the initial resettlement period, which focuses on creating stability, developing self-sufficiency plans through a realistic and strengths-based approach, and actively providing appropriate services, enrollments, and referrals based on client need, strengths, and goals. This role ensures families feel welcome, are informed of what to expect in their first 90 days and beyond, and are connected to critical services in Sacramento County. This position operates within grant-funded programs, requiring specific services to be provided within set timeframes and appropriate documentation of all activities. The role is part of a larger integration team and is responsible for the success of their assigned cases, as determined by the client experience, program outcomes, timeliness and accuracy of reporting, and collaboration with colleagues.
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Department: Resettlement
Schedule: Full Time
The Resettlement Associate (RA) exist to support the Resettlement Staff in completing time-sensitive tasks while ensuring high quality work and thorough follow-up in accordance with program requirements.
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Department: Resettlement
Schedule: Full Time
This Resettlement Specialist is responsible for guiding newly arrived refugees and other qualifying immigrants through the initial resettlement period, which focuses on creating stability, developing self-sufficiency plans through a realistic and strengths-based approach, and actively providing appropriate services, enrollments, and referrals based on client need, strengths, and goals. This role ensures families feel welcome, are informed of what to expect in their first 90 days and beyond, and are connected to critical services in Sacramento County. This position operates within grant-funded programs, requiring specific services to be provided within set timeframes and appropriate documentation of all activities. The role is part of a larger integration team and is responsible for the success of their assigned cases, as determined by the client experience, program outcomes, timeliness and accuracy of reporting, and collaboration with colleagues.
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Sacramento Contract Opportunities
Description:
At World Relief, we believe that part of healthy client care is access to language services. As a contract interpreter, you would be part of helping refugees access the full spectrum of our services we offer at World Relief through your interpretation services, ensuring that, as directed by our team, expectations and boundaries are communicated, that services are fully understood by the client, and that service needs are appropriately communicated.
Our interpreters may be given opportunities to serve our clients in Cultural Orientation classes, and in understanding grants and services in the areas of employment, money management, services to children & youth, at airport pickups, & airing grievances.
The Contract Interpreters in Arabic, Armenian, Dari, Pashto, or Russian, are responsible for accurately interpreting services and service needs between World Relief staff and clients of World Relief in a manner that reflects an established and nurtured relationship between client and staff. Because we are providing services to our clients, all communication, names of clients, and client information, interpreters must understand and value confidentiality as their responsibility.
The interpreter must interpret information accurately, without adding to or taking away from the message, while also recognizes & navigating sensitive cultural differences. The interpreter is professional and courteous at all times and uses appropriate terminology and will use common industry procedures and practices as outlined in World Relief onboarding.
Essential Functions:
- Accurately interpret/translate services and service needs between World Relief staff and clients of World Relief in a manner that reflects an established and nurtured relationship between client and staff.
- Interpret information accurately, without adding to or taking away from the message, while also recognizing & navigating sensitive cultural differences.
- Use appropriate terminology and will use common industry procedures and practices
- Be able to render correct concepts and meanings according to the conventions of established interpretation protocol, avoiding omissions or additions.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Fluency in Dari or Pashto or Arabic, or Russian and English and skilled in the associated cultural dynamics.
- At least 2 professional references that have accessed your interpretation services are required.
- Ability to provide cultural competency and assess regional and accent differences to find ways of communicating between clients & staff.
- Excellent listening, retention and note-taking skills to maintain a high level of accuracy during interpretation.
- Education or work experience in language-related fields such as teaching, language assessment, translation or interpretation preferred but not required.
- Complete WR’s onboarding training for interpreters
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Legally authorized to work in the US/Canada.
- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Ability to read and write the requested languages – required.
Expected Functions:
- Have a schedule that allows you to be occasionally available for interpretation services during regular business hours.
- Be on time to appointments, arriving at least 15 minutes early for a paid pre-session with the staff to discuss goals, guidelines, and concerns for the interpretation session.
- Speak clearly in both languages using proper pronunciation, enunciation and polite expressions.
- Maintain a professional demeanor throughout the interpreting sessions at all times.
- Ability to remain calm during interpreting sessions regardless of emotions from the client.
- Demonstrate commitment to cultural sensitivity and working in a diverse environment.
- High speed Internet connection for electronic communication. This internet connection should provide download speeds of no less than 5 Mbps and upload speeds of 3 Mbps.
- A laptop or computer in order to conduct video calls if needed.
- Reliable transportation to and from appointments if needed.
- Must be willing to complete WR Sacramento’s qualification process for interpreters which requires creating free accounts on multiple websites
Pay: $22-27/ hour (depending on experience) or 0.12 cents/ word
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Employment Partners
Today, World Relief helps prepare thousands of immigrants for work in their communities through job placement, workplace education and training, financial literacy training, economic empowerment and resiliency, and ongoing career counseling. We also partner with a vast network of employers who value the experiences of immigrants. If you are an employer interested in hiring our clients, you can learn more here.
Did you know?
Clients who seek a job through World Relief, on average, earn a wage 184% above the Federal minimum wage, and those who engage in our Career Pathways activities see a 33% increase in wage by the end of the program.
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