Senior Youth Staff Member

Job Description

Job Description

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Learn about local community issues and policies through a social justice and racial equity lens
• Gain support for issue areas through education and public outreach
• Research, design, and facilitate youth-led trainings
• Research and develop youth-focused resources and materials
• Serve as media spokesperson on relevant issues
• Help with recruitment, hiring, and orientation of new youth leaders and/or staff
• Attend training opportunities that enhance the organizational brand as needed and/or available
• Assist with conferences, academies and other PSE-led opportunities
• Engage with PSE’s Portfolios and Circle Meetings as needed
• Advocate for change in community focused on racial equity, youth power building and PSE’s portfolios Just Growth, Just Energy, Just Opportunity and Just Energy
• Develop relationships with residents and other community stakeholders and deliver community-based activities
• Mobilize residents and community-based organizations around racial equity and youth power
• Execute digital organizing approaches to work towards stronger youth power
• Participate in PSE staff meetings, retreats, and community meetings as needed
• Commit to timely submission of all reports (timesheets/invoices) and all fiscal and personnel policies and requests
• Act as a Team Lead in their absence
• Attend programmatic YES! For Equity meetings with full-time staff
• Attend Portfolio meetings as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned by YES! for Equity Team Leads

SUPERVISORY SUPPORT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist adult leads on training and onboarding new youth staff
• Help Adult staff communicate with youth staff as needed
• Be available to answer questions and bring up concerns of/regarding youth staff
• Be prepared to lead virtual meetings with or without adult staff present
• Help ensure tasks assigned to youth staff are completed in a timely manner