Education and Career Coach

3 days ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Mercy Home For Boys and Full time
Job Description

Mercy Home for Boys and Girls is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Education and Career Coach to join our team. As a key member of our Education and Career Resources department, you will play a vital role in supporting the educational and vocational goals of our youth and young adults.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assess and implement Mercy Model programming with assigned youth and young adults, including strengths discovery, goal setting, problem solving, in-vivo mentoring, and skills coaching.
  • Coordinate with treatment teams to identify roles in youth's future planning and include key players (family, mentors, etc.) to support youth in vocational and educational planning.
  • Develop, implement, manage, and monitor operational, administrative, and programmatic processes and activities related to post-secondary education and vocational planning for youth and young adults.
  • Be responsible for the career and post-high school educational assessment of young adults and the case plan related to their individual needs for career and post-secondary planning.
  • Work collaboratively with Residential, Education and Career Resources, and Community Care staff to ensure collaboration with advocate in relation to PSO/CR planning.
  • Maintain educational and vocational records for each assigned young adult, including use of BluePrint database for school records.
  • Collate and collaborate on information, data, and statistics as it relates to QI and Education and Career Resources department.
  • Work directly with young adults in seeking on-campus, part-time, and full-time employment, participate in internship prep process, and support on-campus employment as applicable and assigned.
  • Be responsible for external job placement monitoring and serve as liaison with employers.
  • Implement the Job Preparation Program and Financial Literacy with each young adult.
  • Research, understand, and communicate summer employment and internship opportunities for young adults.
  • Coordinate driver's education for assigned home.
  • Plan, execute, and attend post-secondary and career program exposure visits.
  • Attend weekly Program staff meetings to maintain clear and direct communication for young adults' educational and vocational needs.
  • Ensure direct communication with the Education and Career Resources team and Program staff for timely daily notification of a young adult's availability for academic or vocational tutoring.
  • Maintain confidentiality of young adults when working with tutors.
  • Work two evenings a week to assist during evening programming, including tutoring, job skills classes, job lab, or evening education and career workshops.
  • Actively seek out, explore, and assess community resources in regard to PSO/CR opportunities for youth and young adults.
  • Employ all aspects of de-escalation and behavior management techniques as outlined in CPI protocol.
  • Learn, align with, and execute the treatment philosophies, modalities, and practices of the Agency.

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