Vocational Consultant

Join Our Team as a Vocational Consultant Kansas City Metro | Community-Based Role | $23.27/hour + Mileage Reimbursement If you’re passionate about helping individuals explore careers, build job skills, and achieve meaningful employment, this opportunity is for you. Join Center for Developmentally Disabled (CDD) — a nonprofit serving Kansas City for over 50 years — as a Vocational Consultant, supporting individuals with developmental disabilities through career discovery, job development, and long-term workplace success. Why You’ll Love Working at CDD

• Mission-Driven Impact: Help individuals discover their strengths, build employment skills, and secure inclusive community jobs.
• Meaningful Community Partnerships: Build strong relationships with employers, schools, and organizations across the metro.
• Professional Growth: Paid training, required employment-support certifications, mileage reimbursement, and full-time benefits.
• Supportive Team Culture: Collaborate with caring professionals who share your commitment to opportunity, dignity, and independence.
• Variety Every Day: Community-based role that blends coaching, career planning, employer outreach, and documentation.

What You’ll Do

• Conduct discovery, exploration, assessments, career planning, and development of employment goals.
• Support clients with job exploration, job shadowing, informational interviewing, assistive technology review, and skills assessment.
• Facilitate job development, job placement, onboarding assistance, and on-the-job coaching as needed.
• Develop individualized career plans that reflect strengths, interests, needs, natural supports, and workplace preferences.
• Transport clients to assessments, interviews, community activities, and job-related appointments.
• Maintain accurate case files, documentation, client annual intake paperwork, session notes, and summaries in Therap.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with employers, volunteer sites, funders, families, and school personnel.
• Complete required employment-support certifications during the first year and continuing education annually.
• Collect satisfaction surveys from clients and families twice per year.
• Support Summer Work Programs, intake processes, and job-coaching needs.
• Complete Event Reports, follow timekeeping requirements, and participate in team collaboration.

Required What You Bring

• High school diploma or GED
• Valid driver’s license, auto insurance, and reliable vehicle
• Ability to pass background screening
• Ability to complete CPR, First Aid, and required employment-services certifications
• Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Compassionate, person-centered approach with commitment to community inclusion

Preferred

• 1+ year experience providing employment support, job coaching, or community-based services
• Familiarity with service coordination, IDD support programs, or vocational rehabilitation principles
• Experience using Therap or similar data-entry systems

The Role at a Glance

• Pay: $23.27/hour + mileage reimbursement
• Schedule: Full-time; hours vary based on client needs and caseload
• Work Setting: 100% community-based across the KC metro
• Classification: Non-exempt with benefits and paid training
• Certifications: 14 hours of initial training + 6 hours supervised mentoring (first year), plus annual continuing education
• Reports To: Employment & Community Coordinator

Ready to Make a Difference? If you’re passionate about helping others reach their potential, we’d love to meet you. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. About CDD For over five decades, Center for Developmentally Disabled has helped individuals with developmental disabilities live, work, and thrive independently in their communities. Our mission is to promote dignity, opportunity, and inclusion — and we’re looking for compassionate professionals like you to help us continue that work. Apply today at www.CDDKC.org and start changing lives tomorrow!