Title I Career Planner
State of Iowa
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Career Planner
State of Iowa
309 Iowa Workforce Development
Location
Iowa, 50319
Salary
$23.75 - $34.91
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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March 23, 2026
SES Pay Grade
Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This role involves helping job seekers in Cedar Rapids by coaching them on resumes, interviews, and job searches, while also supporting local employers with recruitment and connecting them to candidates.
It requires strong people skills to build relationships and guide people toward employment opportunities.
A good fit would be someone patient and organized who enjoys teamwork and making a difference in people's careers.
Key Requirements
- Strong customer service skills with courtesy and respect in all interactions
- Ability to coach and motivate job seekers on job search strategies, resumes, and interviews
- Experience facilitating workshops or one-on-one sessions, in-person or virtual
- Proficiency in documenting services and managing data in database or case management systems
- Knowledge of labor market information and job matching processes
- Skills in employer engagement, including recruitment support and relationship building
- Familiarity with unemployment insurance rules and re-employment activities
Full Job Description
Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) is seeking a Career Planner to join our team at the IowaWORKS office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Position Details
- Location: 1025 Kirkwood Pkwy SW, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Schedule: Full-time | Monday – Friday | 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
- Work Flexibility: Hybrid telework and alternate schedules available after six months of employment
What You’ll Do
Provide customer-focused services, assessing needs, and delivering career guidance.
Coach job seekers, assisting with resumes and interviews, connecting customers to workshops and employment opportunities, performing job matching, and documenting services in the database system.
Support employers with recruitment and job orders while maintaining employer relationships.
Assist unemployment claimants with re-employment activities and follows unemployment administration rules and Iowa law when addressing unemployment insurance claims and appeals.
Core Responsibilities
Customer Service and Team Collaboration
- Provide courtesy, respect, and politeness during all interactions with customers, both internal and external.
- Work with and ask customers appropriate questions to determine services they are seeking and/or needing.
- Interact effectively and build respectful relationships among coworkers and partners.
- Collaborate with team members within the American Job Center (AJC), resulting in a better experience for customers.
- Provide feedback as well as potential solutions to team and/or leadership and provide first day service to Veterans.
- Promptly greet customers upon entry into the IowaWORKS Center in a friendly and professional manner.
Career Coaching and Customer Support
- Coach, motivate, and encourage job seekers on all aspects of the job search and assist customers to build their personal and job skills for the primary goal of successful employment.
- Provide customers assistance with preparing and tailoring resumes and cover letters and facilitate mock interviews for customers, identifying ways to improve their interview responses.
- Process paperwork for partner and team programs and services.
- Refer, direct, and result customers to appropriate workshops and employment events.
- Facilitate workshops or one-on-one appointments in-person or through virtual conferencing platform for customers/participants of system programs and services, update workshops and presentations as new information is available.
- Accurately document all services, appointments, or other pertinent information in the database system and send/receive work-related documents for customers.
Employment Services and Labor Market Guidance
- Assist customers by answering questions about employment and training opportunities.
- Perform “job matching” referring career opportunities to candidates in the IowaWORKS System. Provide appropriate partner referrals and relay current labor market information to job candidates.
Business Services and Employer Engagement
- Provide direct services to business for recruitment of employees and provide information and guidance to employers on how to use the IowaWORKS system.
- Identify sources for potential new employer customers for the AJC and participate in development and implementation of customized recruitment strategies and events.
- Provide follow-up contact and services to job seekers and business.
- Utilize case management system for tracking and maintaining employer information.
- Critique and enter job orders and referrals into the IowaWORKS system and network with businesses to determine hiring practices and employer needs.
Unemployment Insurance and Re-employment Support
- Connect unemployment claimants with re-employment activities at the AJC.
- Adhere and refer to unemployment administration rules and Iowa law when working with customers in regard to filing unemployment insurance (UI) claims, answering questions and concerns.
- Use database system to review salary histories, cross reference database systems to ensure personal identification information matches and adjudicate issues within the claim in accordance with all UI laws.
- Provide information to customers for UI appeals when necessary and prepare and participate in all UI appeal hearings relating to issued adjudications decisions.
About Iowa Workforce Development
IWD is a state agency committed to providing employment services for individual job seekers and to connecting employers to available workers through our IowaWORKS partnership.
IWD continually strives to improve processes and align the organization to provide effective, demand-driven products and services.
IWD staff in Des Moines consists of administrative services, disability determination services, information technology, labor market information, unemployment insurance services, vocational rehabilitation services, and workforce services.
The agency also maintains a statewide delivery system for IowaWORKS Offices where both employers and job seekers can receive workforce assistance.
Employer Highlights
IWD is focused on serving Iowans and providing outstanding customer service. Our strength is driven by the skills and talents of our people. IWD offers a rewarding team atmosphere, a flexible working environment, and a great total compensation package for our full-time employees, including:
- Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS)
- Retirement Investors Club (RIC)
- Hybrid telework opportunities for eligible classifications
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Vacation Leave
- Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays (9 days/year)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
The State of Iowa participates in E-Verify; a federal program that helps employers confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.
Within the required timeframe, new hires will be verified through the E-Verify system to ensure authorization to work in the United States.
The State of Iowa also complies with the federal Right to Work laws, which protect employees’ rights to work without being required to join a labor organization.
For more information, please visit www.e-verify.gov.
No applicant for employment with the Iowa Department of Workforce Development can have a current, ongoing overpayment balance with Iowa Workforce Development without a payment plan in place. Selected positions will be subject to a criminal background check.
Qualifications
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university;OR
an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of full-time public contact work obtaining, analyzing and evaluating data such as job/claims interviewing, testing, referral and/or placement, sales representative, credit investigation, or related public contact work dealing with job applicants and employers in a variety of supportive clerical and outreach functions for one year of the required education with a maximum substitution of four years; OR
employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to twelve months of full-time work as a Workforce Associate. For additional information, please click on this link to view the job description.
Additional Information
Travel may be required for positions in this class. Employees must arrange transportation to and from assigned work areas.Check your resume before applying to catch common mistakes