Local Veterans Employment Representative
State of Iowa
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Local Veterans Employment Representative
State of Iowa
309 Iowa Workforce Development
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 job involves helping veterans find work by reaching out to businesses, organizing job fairs, and promoting training programs to connect employers with skilled military talent.
You'll work at a workforce center in Burlington or Davenport, Iowa, advocating for veterans, transitioning service members, and their families.
It's a great fit for someone passionate about supporting veterans, with experience in outreach, networking, and workforce development.
Key Requirements
- Strong communication and presentation skills for engaging employers, community groups, and stakeholders
- Knowledge of veteran employment programs, including SkillBridge, HIRE Vets Medallion, and Home Base Iowa Business
- Experience in outreach, job development, and coordinating events like job fairs
- Ability to collaborate with businesses, unions, apprenticeship programs, and federal contractors
- Understanding of workforce services, training initiatives, and credentialing for veterans
- Location-based requirement: Must be able to work from IowaWORKS centers in Burlington or Davenport, IA
- Commitment to becoming a subject matter expert on hiring and retaining veterans and military families
Full Job Description
Only applicants who meet the Minimum Qualification Requirements and meet all selective requirements (listed below) will be placed on the eligible list.Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) is seeking a Local Veterans Employment Representative to join our team at our IowaWORKS location.
Domicile will be determined based on the hired candidate’s location at one of our IowaWorks location in Burlington or Davenport, IA.
About Iowa Workforce Development
IWD is a statewide agency focused on connecting job seekers with opportunities and supporting employers in building strong, skilled workforces.
Through IowaWORKS centers and partner offices across the state, IWD delivers demand-driven workforce services that strengthen Iowa’s economy and communities.
What You’ll Do
Lead outreach initiatives with employers to educate them on best practices and develop new pathways for the recruitment and hiring of Veterans, including collaboration with federal contractors, employer groups, and partner organizations.
Core Responsibilities
- Advocate and promote the hiring of veterans with business, industry, chamber of commerce, media and other community-based organizations by participating in appropriate outreach activities:
- Outreach to employers
- Coordinating and attending job fairs
- Host opportunities for employers to meet qualified veterans
- Promote job development activities with employers.
- Coordinate with unions, apprenticeship programs and businesses or business organizations to promote and secure employment and training programs for veterans.
- Inform Federal contractors of the process to recruit qualified veterans.
- Assist in the assessment and development of new training initiatives in the Local Workforce Development Area (LWDA).
- Contact employers (in-person and virtually) to gain knowledge of job processes, conditions of employment, and general occupational and industrial information.
- Identify job openings and provide information on business services offered through the Workforce Centers.
- Give presentations before audiences of business or community leaders concerning services available through the Workforce Center and veteran programs.
- Promote credentialing, licensing, job driven training and apprenticeship opportunities for veterans.
- Promote IWD as a 3rd party administrator of the Department of War (DoW) SkillBridge program.
- Support Iowa employers in gaining approval as a DoW SkillBridge Industry Partner.
- Guide businesses through the application and training plan process while addressing program-related questions.
- Opportunities to present to business or community leaders on the SkillBridge program and the benefits it can provide as a workforce pipeline.
In this role you will become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the hiring and retention of:
- Veterans, Transitioning Service Members, Guardsmen/Reservists and their families
- Provide training and technical assistance to employers that wish to become "Veteran-Ready"
- Promote best practices to businesses including but not limited to becoming a designated Home Base Iowa Business (HBI), the HIRE Vets Medallion Program, and Veteran Resource Groups
- Advocate for "job-ready" Veterans that have been referred by career planners within the Office of Veteran Workforce Services
- Educate and train One-Stop staff and stakeholders regarding veteran issues and concerns. Coordinate and participate with other business outreach efforts
- Integrate and collaborate with the One-Stop's Business Service Team(s) to advocate for hiring veterans
Benefits
Joining the IWD team and becoming a State of Iowa employee comes with a range of valuable benefits, including:
- Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off, including nine paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave with no cap on the sick leave accrual.
- Prepare for the future with the IPERS retirement package, as well as an additional optional deferred compensation retirement plan.
- Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care.
- Free Life and Long-term Disability Insurance with the option to purchase additional coverage.
- Employee Assistance Programs and Discount Programs for support.
Click here to learn more about all of the amazing benefits the State of Iowa offers.
Hours of Work: Monday – Friday 8:00am-4:30pm. Hybrid telework and alternate work schedule opportunities after 6-months of employment has been completed.
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 seeking 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. Select positions will be subject to a criminal background check.
Requirements
895 Military VeteranA person who served in the active military, naval, or air service, and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
Qualifications
Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:- Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in marketing, journalism, public relations, graphic design, communications, human resources, business, or economics and two years of full-time work experience in marketing, journalism, public relations, graphic design, communications, human resources, business, or economics.
- A total of six years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where 30 semester hours of accredited college or university course work in marketing, journalism, public relations, graphic design, communications, human resources, business, or economics equals one year of full-time experience.
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