Disability Program Navigator
The Department of Labor (DOL) has established a new position, the Disability Program Navigator, in One-Stop Career Centers throughout the country to better inform people with disabilities about the work support programs available at DOL's One-Stop Career Centers.
Disability Program Navigators:
- Guide One-Stop Career Center staff in helping people with disabilities access and navigate the various programs that impact their ability to gain/retain jobs.
- Facilitate integrated, seamless, and comprehensive services in On-Stop Career Centers to persons with disabilities.
- Improve linkages to the employer community and develops demand-responsive strategies to meet their recruitment and retention needs.
- Facilitate the transition of in- or out-of-school youth with disabilities to obtain employment and enconomic self-sufficiency.
- Serve as a resource on programs that impact the ability of persons with disabilities to enter and remain in the workforce.
- Bring together multiple partners to foster a collaborative effort by building Interagency Action Committees to address systems level barriers and Integrated Resource Teams to address individual level barriers to employment job seekers with disabilities experience.
For additional information contact: The Disability Team, DOLETA at 202.693.3844.
Recommendations for Job Seekers
Excerpted from NCD’s 2009 Report on Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
Recommendation for Job Seekers
Investigate employment opportunities in agencies with critical hiring needs and agencies that have shown a commitment to hiring people with disabilities. For example, almost 80 percent of projected new hires will be in five professional fields: security, protection, compliance and enforcement; medical and public health; accounting, budget, and business; engineering and sciences; and program management/analysis and administration.The Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network (EARN), funded by ODEP, is a free service that connects employers with skilled job candidates. EARN also offers assistance to employment service providers and job-seekers with disabilities by providing them with job leads from employers interested in including people with disabilities in their recruiting efforts. Currently, 162 federal agencies are using EARN services to identify qualified candidates with disabilities.
http://earnworks.com
Questions and Answers: Promoting Employment of Individuals with Disabilities in the Federal Workforce
http://eeoc.gov/federal/qandaemployment-with-disabilities.html
Social Security Administration’s new HIRING INITIATIVE
http://www.ssa.gov/work/scheduleA/
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Social Security Administration |
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Center for Human Resources |
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1301 Young Street, Suite 130 |
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Dallas, TX 75202 |
SSA’s Hiring Plans for 2009: Linking Candidates with Disabilities to SSA Jobs
The Social Security Administration has recently received funding to hire a significant number of employees throughout the country. This hiring initiative offers a unique opportunity for individuals with disabilities who may want to get a job with SSA. These jobs will be at various skill levels including a number of entry-level positions.
What kinds of jobs is SSA offering?
SSA is recruiting employees to work in field offices and teleservice centers where they will assist the public by phone and in person with a wide variety of program related activities such as filing claims, applying for a new or replacement Social Security cards and other types of inquiries. SSA also is recruiting employees to work in claims processing centers and to work in hearings offices in legal and paralegal positions.
Where are these jobs located?
All across the United States; for example, some are in the local SSA field offices or SSA hearings offices, some in the 37 teleservice centers nationwide, some in SSA’s program service centers and some at SSA headquarters in the Baltimore area.
How will SSA recruit?
- SSA will use a variety of avenues to recruit and hire people with disabilities. In particular, the Agency is reaching out to Ticket to Work ticket holders who are trying to return to work, veterans with disabilities through programs such as the Wounded Warrior transitional program, and students with disabilities. Many individuals with disabilities will qualify for consideration under a special placement authority called “Schedule A.”
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Hiring People with Disabilities
- Veterans Hiring Authorities
- Reasonable Accommodation
- Federal Career Intern Program
- Student Programs
- Ticket to Work
- SSA Job Descriptions (Word Version)
Additional Resources
Job Accommodation Network
JAN now has live chat available for accommodation questions. Hover over the "Contact Us" button on the link above to pull up the live chat link.
Texas Department of Assistive & Rehabilitative Services
Texas Workforce Commission