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Location: Erie, PA
Company: Highmark Caring Foundation
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: Undergraduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
Identifying Partnerships/Maintaining Partners - 12 hours/wk Enrolling families in CHIP and adultBasic - 5 hours week Community events/Councils?Boards - 5 hours week Traveling 10 hours week Paperwork 4 hours week
Job Requirements
Developing a career plan is up to the individual and their managers. Accessing continueing education opportunity is encouraged and supported
Uppers
Meeting so many wonderful folks and learning the cultures of PA traveling, working independently and collaborating with community groups
Downers
Paperwork, useless recording and reporting.
Lifestyle
To be successful in this position, you must be honest, able to work independently as well as part of a team, able to travel, deverse, able to multi-task, flexable, and willing to work overtime. The dress code is business suits to very casual since you need to meet the clients and agencies where they are. Your partners and job functions dictate dress code, not employer
Advice to Jobseekers
I beleive independent working is the future, less micromanagement and more willingness to hand the job over to employees and trust it will be done. Great opportunity for the right individual. Not perfect for everyone.

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