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About the Role
A Job Coach is paired with up to 15 young people and works with youth (9th grade or age 14 to age 26). The coach builds trusting, long-term relationships with youth, encouraging them to graduate high school, pursue further education, and develop progressive career experiences. The role also involves navigating the transition into adulthood and independent living for those aging out of foster care.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with up to 15 young people.
- Provide ongoing social/emotional support.
- Work 1:1 with young people to develop individualized academic and career development goals.
- Connect young people to quality schools, programs, resources, and opportunities.
- Help young people persist in settings, navigate challenges, celebrate successes, and plan for the next step.
- Assist youth in reflecting on experiences and setting new goals if a program is not successful.
- Collaborate with Case Planners, Tutors, Specialists, and foster/birth parents.
- Connect young people to peer group supports and build positive relationships.
- Ensure young people aging out can access and maintain stable housing and build independent living skills.
- Re-engage disconnected youth and help them re-enroll in an academic setting.
- Assess the fit between the young person and their academic setting and help them transfer if needed.
- Visit the young person's school/program and build relationships with staff.
- Review transcripts and academic data, provide educational advocacy, and discuss progress towards graduation/HSE.
- Ensure young people are attending school and have necessary supports.
- Expose students to post-secondary pathways.
- Assist students with post-secondary planning.
- Connect students to the College Specialist to apply to colleges, opportunity programs, and financial aid.
- Provide college persistence coaching.
- Assist students with planning for apprenticeship and vocational education paths.
- Assist young people in obtaining working papers.
- Conduct career exploration activities with young people.
- Assist young people in selecting at least one career development experience each year.
- Work with young people to identify potential longer-term career pathways.
- Connect young people to the Career Development Specialist for workforce development programs and job applications.
- Connect young people to agency-based job readiness and/or internship programs.
- Provide persistence coaching to young people enrolled in external programs.
- Ensure young people coordinate with a Housing Specialist for housing applications.
- Accompany young people to visit supportive housing residences.
- Help young people move in and obtain furniture.
- Help young people maintain housing by providing independent living and life skills supports.
Requirements
- Regularly required to stand; walk, use hands and fingers, handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; talk and listen, and taste or smell.
- Frequently required to walk.
- Occasionally required to keep balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Must be able to use a computer and learn software programs.
- Required to operate a fax, copier, scan, and other office equipment.
- Needs to be able to speak, read and write fluently in the English language.
- Must be able to write in the English language using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.
- May frequently lift 0-25 lbs.
- May occasionally lift 25-50 lbs.
- May rarely lift over 50 lbs.
- May frequently push/pull 0-25 lbs. of force.
- May occasionally push/pull 26-45 lbs. force.
- May rarely push/pull over 45 lbs. force.
- Will be required to sit, stand and walk throughout the work day.
- May occasionally stoop.
- May occasionally kneel.
- May occasionally crouch.
- A Bachelor's degree and at least two years of experience working with at-risk or system-involved young people.
Skills
- Social/emotional support
- Academic goal development
- Career development
- Relationship building
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Advocacy
- Independent living skills
- Budgeting
- Computer proficiency
- Office equipment operation
- English fluency (speaking, reading, writing)
Location
- Irvington, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years of experience working with at-risk or system-involved young people
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $55000.00 - $60000.00