Background: The REP program serves newly arrived immigrant and refugee, high school students with mentoring workshops focused on providing youth the foundational knowledge needed to be successful at pursuing their education and career goals in the United States.
Job Overview: Under the supervision of the Youth Coordinator, the In-School Youth Specialist is responsible for REP service provision and outcomes, including screening referrals from teachers, client processing and enrollment, curriculum development, providing assessments, creating individualized service plans, case management including client success coaching towards youth goals, referrals to community organizations for care givers, follow up services, and financial requests. This role will also be responsible to coordinate school enrollments for newly arrived youth including working with families to ensure youth are enrolled into and attending school. The position will also be responsible to provide additional recommendations for student support on campus.
The Youth Specialist will develop relationships with local school districts and site staff, including building rapport, learning about opportunities on campus, and connecting youth to appropriate staff for support. Youth Specialist will be responsible to provide teachers with a clear understanding of REP objectives and enrollment criteria along with a clear referral process. The Youth Specialist will be responsible for enrolling clients into REP and assigning mentors to each youth. They will be responsible to develop goal maps with each youth and provide guidance to mentors on how to follow up on the plans monthly to ensure progression towards goals. The Youth Specialist will also train mentors on related skills and processes. All activities will advance skill acquisition and support school engagement and progression. This role will oversee the development and implementation of REP workshops aimed education support, life skills development, employment information, and skills assessments. In addition, the Youth Specialist will be responsible for overseeing progress made through mentoring programs and will report findings through maintaining casefiles, case notes across ETO, and internal tracking systems.
Additionally, Youth Specialist will support with school enrollments- working alongside IRC’s Reception and Placement team the specialist will work with newly arrived families to enroll students into proper schools. Specialist will meet with students and families to go over US school norms, expectations for school, and answer any questions the family may have. The specialist will work directly with the school to connect the students to resources and appointments needed for their new school.
Major Responsibilities:
Client Outreach & External Partnership Development
Case Management
Facilitation & Teaching
Program reporting and administration
School Enrollments
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Youth Programs Coordinator
Job Requirements:
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Compensation: Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
US Benefits: We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure, medical insurance starting at $143 per month, dental starting at $6.50 per month, and vision starting at $5 per month, FSA for healthcare and commuter costs, a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching, disability & life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles.
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: No requirements