Career Development Professional 4 – Mobile
The Career Development Professional 4 – Mobile is a community-based role identifying, sourcing, building community connections, and promoting services to enhance client outcomes. They work with clients in a variety of settings such as libraries, community centers, or coffee shops.
Working within the community, the Career Development Professional 4 – Mobile is self-motivated with strong networking and communication skills. They also demonstrate sound time management skills and possess an elevated level of accuracy, attention to detail, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
The ideal candidate possesses:
- Relationship building and maintenance skills
- Networking skills
- Self-motivation
- Advanced facilitation skills
- Sales skills
- Ability to meet people where they are in the community
- Understanding of community/personal boundaries
- Accountability in meeting set outcomes
- Ability to seek out new opportunities
- Ability to set your own appointments, schedule, and ability to track it all
- Self-management skills
- Autonomy
Qualifications
- Post-secondary or equivalent
- Recommended to have a CCDP designation (obtained or working towards)
- Formal training in case management practices
- Able to perform or conduct needs assessments
- 5+ years of experience in the field
- Demonstrated all competencies of CDP 4
- Demonstrated the ability to foster community relationships
Training
- Case Management
- Communication
- Ethics
- Labour Market Information (LMI)
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Career Theory
- Digital Literacy
- Mentorship
- Health & Wellness
- Challenging Clients
- Facilitation
Competencies
- Band 1: Professional Practice: Competencies enabling effective practice. (All Competencies within Band)
- Band 2: CDP Characteristic: Competencies distinguishing the field of career development practice. (All Competencies within Band)
- Band 3: CDP Extended: Competencies required to deliver specialized services provided by CDPs. (Competencies 18 & 19)
- Band 4: Outreach and Leadership: Competencies reflecting the strategic role of career development professionals. (Competencies 23 & 26)
Competency bands are from the National Career Development Professional Competency Framework
Competency Evaluation
This easy-to-use online tool allows managers and employees to conduct industry standardized performance reviews based on the National Competency Framework. Each set of questions is tailored to an employee's specific career to ensure they receive a fair and thorough evaluation and make sure that managers have the information they need to support their team's development and success.
Other Titles
- Itinerant Case Manager
- Mobile Case Worker
- Portable Case Worker
- Community Career Worker