Youth Coach

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Youth Coach

Job Summary:  

CASES is looking for a Youth Coach, are you: 

• Looking to work with young people by engaging them in meaningful conversation, setting goals, and providing support and encouragement?

• An outside-the-box thinker who can employ creative approaches?

• Someone who believes that change is possible?

• Passionate about working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed, youth development lens?

Becoming a Youth Coach at CASES could be what you are looking for. As a Youth Coach, you will:

• Be part of a successful, innovative, and collaborative movement that is changing the landscape of child welfare and the juvenile legal system.

• Join a community of over 500 passionate professionals across organizations.

• Make an immediate impact in the lives of young people by helping them carve out a pathway to success, as they define it.

Travel is expected throughout the assigned borough or to where participant is – feels safest - and a minimum of 80% of the client contact will be in the community.

Salary: The salary for this role is $61,800 per year. 

Shift Hours: This position is full-time Monday-Friday 10am-6pm. Flexibility required to be responsive to youth needs (occasionally accompanying to school in AM, picking up phone calls in PM.

Location Address: 412 East 147th Street, Bronx, NY, 10455

Workplace Flexibility: Flexible - Positions for which staff have flexibility to complete their workday from home or another suitable space, typically after reporting to the office and/or engaging in field or community-based work. Travel is expected throughout the assigned borough or to where participant is – feels safest - and a minimum of 80% of the client contact will be in the community

  What you will be doing:  

• Develop relationships with young people and their families to support participant compliance of in-person contacts twice weekly and weekly phone calls 
• Support young people in the adherence to obligations set forth by their mandate from court 
• Plan activities to attend with participants after school and school breaks 
• Create relationships with Education staff from school's young people attend to support their educational success including monitoring school attendance 
• Partner with young people to establish goals short and long term 
• Be accessible to young people outside of program hours in case of crisis 
• Facilitate groups as needed 
• Daily documentation of contacts/efforts 
• Connect youth to positive activities in their communities and verify their attendance and participation
• Work closely with families to engage them in the development of goal plans and aftercare plans
• Administer assessment tools as needed including mental health, risk, and educational assessments to assist in the development of youth goal plans
• Engage in a weekly team and individual supervision meetings led by supervisor 
• Adhere to ACS-mandated onboarding core trainings and annual training requirements

  What we are looking for: 

• At least 2 years' experience working with young people Desire to learn from youth
• Commitment to youth engagement through collaboration with youth and their families
• Demonstrated ability to engage and motivate youth
• Positive attitude and excellent problem-solving skills
• Trained in or committed to training to become competent in trauma informed approaches as a means of engaging young people
• Experience developing relationships with schools, community-based organizations and/or other youth service providers
• Schedule flexibility: General hours are 10am-6pm, but some activities require us to start earlier or end later

Preferred Skills:  

• Bilingual Spanish & English

Employee Benefits: 

CASES cares about employee wellbeing, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, including: 

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days
• 12 Paid Holidays per year.
• Retirement 403(b) Competitive matching up to 6%.
• Employee Referral Program