Youth Specialist

3 weeks ago

Boston, United States Youth Guidance Full time

**About Our Organization**

Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education, and ultimately, to succeed in school and in life. We believe that no matter what challenges a young person faces, they are more likely to succeed when they have caring adults in their lives. Our highly trained staff guides kids to overcome the life and academic challenges facing the youth. We meet kids where they are — physically and emotionally — to help them focus on their education, make positive choices, and remain on the right path toward life success.

**Position Summary**

Becoming A Man (BAM) Youth Specialists are responsible for guiding young men in grades 7 - 12 to learn, internalize, and practice social skills, make responsible decisions for their future, and become positive members of their school and community. BAM Youth Specialists do this by providing young men with the mindsets, values, and abilities they need to develop into healthy, responsible young men and thrive.

**Essential Duties/Responsibilities**
- Work in collaboration with BAM Supervisor and school administration to recruit and build relationships with up to 60 school-based youth to participate in the BAM
- Lead and facilitate 4 - 5 weekly BAM groups during the school day, utilizing youth engagement, clinical counseling, and men’s rites of passage skills.
- Provide individualized support to all BAM participants, and provide individual, family, and crisis counseling sessions to students on an as-needed basis.
- Participate in monthly staff development training and team meetings on the evidence-based BAM curriculum and other topics relevant to working with youth.
- Participate in supervision and coaching to ensure fidelity of program delivery.
- Document all interactions with youth, including group and individual case notes, clinical assessments, brief encounters, special events, program consents, pre/post surveys, and monthly program narratives based on program protocol.
- Work jointly with BAM Supervisor to manage an annual program budget to plan and execute field trips and special events for students throughout the school year and summer.
- Collaborate with school administration, teachers, and other Youth Guidance programs to provide, and participate in professional development sessions.
- Collaborate and/or coordinate services with the Local School Council, Youth Guidance Parent Family Engagement team, and school parent engagement team.

**Minimum Qualifications**

Education/Experience/Training
- Bachelor’s degree from an approved accredited university and a minimum of two years of youth engagement experience.
- A Master’s Degree in social work, counseling, or a related human service field from an approved accredited university and one year of youth engagement experience preferred
- Minimum of two years of experience providing supervised group counseling.

Skills/Abilities
- Bilingual preferred not required.
- Completion of BAM curriculum training.
- Ability to commit to the continuous improvement of service quality and the organization’s mission.
- Ability to maintain positive relationships with various stakeholders.
- Succinct written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to function well in a group and team settings.
- Ability to demonstrate interpersonal skills that excel in cultural sensitivity and respect for differences.
- Willingness to occasionally participate in youth sports activities.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of advanced psychological concepts (e.g. CBT, Clinical Processing, Modeling, and Group Development) is preferred.

**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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch
- The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal
- The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

**Work Environment**

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This job operates in a professional office environment, school setting and working with the public, **all Youth Guidance employees must be fully vaccinated or approved for a medical or re

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