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About the Role

Friends of the Children Austin is seeking a Professional Mentor (Friend) to empower youth facing obstacles through long-term relationships. This role involves nurturing individual strengths, ensuring well-being, teaching life and academic skills, and providing enrichment activities, all while modeling responsible behavior and managing multiple priorities. The ideal candidate will be culturally competent, trauma-informed, and adept at database management, with a commitment to making a minimum 3-year commitment.

Responsibilities

Embody a commitment to positive expectations.
Nurture and promote each child’s individual strengths, talents and abilities.
Help assure physical and emotional well-being.
Teach life and academic skills in creative ways.
Provide diverse enrichment activities.
Model responsible behavior.
Simultaneously manage multiple priorities to ensure goals are met.
Be comfortable with, and adept at, logging information into a database in a timely and accurate manner.
Spend time with children, one-on-one and in the classroom.
Develop, maintain, and follow a Roadmap or Transition Plan for each child.
Set realistic expectations and goals based on each child’s strengths, talents, abilities and needs.
Teach life skills and healthy habits to contribute both to basic development and learning, and to contribute to building positive self-esteem.
Develop a talent/skill/area of interest with each child to help develop positive self-esteem and experience growing confidence.
Provide enrichment resources and activities which include opportunities for cultural awareness, diversity and community service.
Contribute to children acquiring behavioral management skills, tolerance, respect for others, courtesy, and compassion.
Develop positive relationships with families, teachers and others involved in each child’s life.
Facilitate the development/progress of academic skills and learning.
Model and promote good problem solving and decision-making skills.
Participate in the programming and resources available through the organization, effectively utilizing program resources to meet the needs of each child.
Maintain spending within budgetary guidelines.
Complete, distribute and collect time summaries, activity journals, short term plans, expense reports and evaluation materials accurately and in a timely manner.
Attend and actively participate in team meetings and staff functions.
Provide information and support to development team and related activities as needed.
Fulfill other responsibilities as required.
Transport children in personal vehicle as required for mentoring activities within a 30-mile radius of the Friends Austin office.
Maintain a current driver’s license, good driving record, and ensure that your vehicle insurance is current.
Maintain First Aid/CPR certification.

Requirements

Be culturally competent and trauma informed.
Have superior scheduling and time management skills.
Have data entry and database management skills, as well as a commitment to detail accuracy.
Be willing and excited to make a minimum 3-year commitment.
Ability to relate to children and to develop and sustain trusting, supportive relationships with them.
Strong cross-generational interpersonal skills.
Demonstrated ability to work with children in varied capacities and settings to help them learn and grow.
Ability to cultivate trusting relationships with children, parents, teachers, community members and other supportive adults in a youth’s environments.
Ability to use creativity and initiative in planning activities to continually develop children.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and communicate appropriately within the workplace.
Ability to work independently in diverse environments with limited supervision.
Ability to work as a team player.
Ability to manage several concurrent issues and solve problems effectively exercising appropriate discretion and judgment.
Ability to set goals and develop plans to meet those goals to ensure the development of each child.
Ability to complete administrative tasks accurately and on time.
Ability to handle high mobility and driving demands safely and with good judgment.
Ability to have compassion, patience, and cultural competency for families/youth who have experienced trauma.
Basic computer and keyboarding skills, proficiency with e-mail and database systems.
Ability to exercise good judgment independently, in various situations and environments, and under varying levels of stress.
Maintain a current driver’s license, good driving record, and ensure that your vehicle insurance is current.
Maintain First Aid/CPR certification.

Skills

Spanish proficiency preferred
Data entry
Database management
Detail accuracy
Scheduling
Time management
Written communication
Verbal communication
Organizational skills
MS Outlook
OneDrive
SharePoint

Location

Austin

Work Type

Full time
Exempt

Experience Level

Minimum 3-year commitment
Three years’ experience working/volunteering with children

Education Level

Associate degree required
Bachelor’s degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

$61,060

Benefits

Three weeks of paid vacation
Paid holidays
Paid sick leave
Standard IRS mileage rates will be reimbursed

About the Company

Friends of the Children Austin is one of the fastest growing chapters of a 30+ year-old national professional mentoring organization, impacting generational change by empowering youth through relationships with professional mentors.
We do this by providing children facing the most obstacles with a long-term, paid, professional mentor, who we call a “Friend,” from kindergarten through high school graduation, 12+ years – no matter what.
At Friends of the Children, we put children first and use our values to change the way the world treats and views youth facing great barriers.
A committed leadership team and the opportunity to grow with a quickly scaling non-profit.
You’ll be part of a dynamic and supportive national network, with a proven, evidence-based, highly unique model.
A team of talented employees who are passionate about working together to create an extraordinary organization.
Respect for work-life balance.
Most of all, you get to be a leader at an exceptional organization that helps children facing incredible odds change their life story every day.

Equal Opportunity

Friends of the Children Austin is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to addressing discriminatory practices. The equal employment opportunity policy of Friends of the Children Austin provides fair and equal opportunities for all employees and job applicants. Friends of the Children Austin hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.