Youth Resiliency & Wellness Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION TITLE: Youth Resiliency & Wellness Specialist

DEPARTMENT: Operations: Health & Wellness

REPORTS TO:                     Youth Resilience Wellness Coach  

SALARY/FLSA STATUS:   Exempt/Full Time

ORGANIZATION MISSION:

We prepare youth and young adults to be ready for college, career, and life.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Youth Resiliency & Wellness Specialist plays a vital role in advancing the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tampa Bay’s commitment to trauma-informed, emotionally safe, and wellness-centered youth programming. In this position, the Specialist provides consistent guidance, coaching, and hands-on support to Club staff and members, helping to strengthen resiliency skills, emotional regulation, and psychological safety throughout the Club environment.

This role is responsible for delivering structured coping‑skills activities, supporting early intervention for youth displaying signs of stress or dysregulation, and ensuring that wellness routines are carried out with fidelity across all program spaces. The Specialist also contributes to staff development, program quality, and alignment with evidence‑informed wellness curricula and tools.

Additionally, the Specialist promotes the integration of developmentally appropriate physical activity and cooperative recreational play as part of the Club’s holistic wellness approach—recognizing that movement, teamwork, and positive peer interaction naturally reinforce emotional regulation, social connectedness, and overall well‑being.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide training and coaching to Club staff to implement daily trauma-informed, wellness-focused routines that promote a positive and emotionally safe Club environment.
  • Structure and consistency of daily activities
  • Staff-led coping skills and emotional regulation practices
  • Use of trauma-sensitive guidance and discipline techniques
• Introduce and model coping-skills routines, resilience-building practices, and SEL strategies through small-group activities and youth check-ins during on-site visits.
• Deliver early intervention and supportive check-ins with youth experiencing emotional or behavioral stress, helping prevent escalation and strengthening youth coping abilities.
• Help identify environmental triggers within Club spaces and support staff in reducing escalation risks through proactive, relationship-based approaches.
• Achieve and maintain relevant training credentials to support trauma-informed practices in out-of-school time environments.
• Build collaborative relationships with internal leadership and external partners to support mental wellness, trauma-informed care, and access to resiliency-building resources for youth and families.
• Assist in planning or coordinating activities that address emerging youth mental or behavioral health needs.
• Ensure that Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Emotional Vaccines curriculum components, and wellness routines are implemented consistently and effectively across program spaces.
• Help staff incorporate light physical activity or cooperative team‑based games into daily routines when appropriate, as these activities can gently support stress reduction, confidence‑building, and positive peer interactions
• Reinforce how structured group activities — including recreational sports or teamwork‑oriented games — can promote communication, cooperation, and social skills that strengthen youth resilience and emotional wellness
• Collaborate with program staff to ensure that recreational and movement‑based activities remain emotionally safe, inclusive, and aligned with trauma‑informed practices, allowing youth to benefit from the natural wellness advantages tied to active play and team belonging.
• Conduct ongoing check-ins with Club staff to reinforce fidelity to structured wellness tools, ensuring activities are delivered as designed.
• Evaluate effectiveness of routines, strategies, and youth-response outcomes; recommend adjustments to improve overall impact and alignment with program goals.
• Collaborate closely with Club leadership to support high-quality daily programming that reflects trauma-sensitive, positive youth development practices.
• Support staff through demonstrations, observation feedback, and modeling of relationship-based, non-punitive crisis prevention techniques.
• Participate in the planning or implementation of special events, initiatives, or wellness-focused activities as needed.
• Support caregiver engagement efforts, including participation in Parent Pods or sharing wellness strategies and resources that can be used at home.
• Provide consultation to parents or caregivers when appropriate regarding youth wellness strategies or Club-related concerns.
• Support special programs, events, or additional duties aligned with organizational priorities.

RELATIONSHIPS:

Internal: Maintain close daily contact with Club directors, frontline staff, youth members, and direct supervisor to exchange information, provide guidance, model practices, and support program delivery. Must demonstrate sound judgment and the ability to make decisions with limited supervisory input.

External: Engage as needed with community partners, schools, mental health resources, caregivers, and other service providers to coordinate support or address youth-related concerns.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Education, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2–3 years of experience working with youth in community-based, school-based, or out-of-school-time environments.
• Experience supporting youth from low-income backgrounds, communities of color, LGBTQ+ youth, and/or other historically marginalized groups.
• Strong knowledge of trauma-informed care, SEL practices, and behavior regulation strategies for youth.
• Group leadership skills and an understanding of youth group dynamics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to coach, train, and collaborate with staff at all levels.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks independently.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with Club staff, youth, families, and external partners.
• Reliable transportation to travel to multiple Club locations.

TRAVEL:

Travel may be required to multiple Club facilities throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Hernando counties for training and/or other business purposes.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, kneel, stoop, and use a keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to bend and lift and/or move up to 30 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate - high. Flexibility to working schedules may be required due to changing needs. 

DISCLAIMER:

The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this job classification. It is not designed to contain, nor to be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and objectives required of employees assigned to this job. Reasonable accommodation will be possible and based on an individual basis.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:  

Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without discrimination because of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.