Youth Development Specialist - Part Time
Youth Development Specialist - Part Time
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12-04-2025
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12-04-2025
Job Description
Family Connections is seeking a PT Youth Development Specialist to foster social development through facilitation of recreation and psychoeducational groups.
Core Values:
- CULTURAL PROFICIENCY:Articulates and applies historical context of racism and understands the current reality of consumers and communities of color in order to support racial equity. Actively demonstrates a commitment to supporting equity and inclusion and serves as an advocate with colleagues partners and communities to meet the Agencys goal of becoming an Antiracist Culturally Inclusive Organization.
- RACIAL EQUITY ADVOCATE:Recognizes supports and engages in dismantling institutional racism. Partners with and is accountable to stakeholders including children families and communities of color.
- RACIAL EQUITY MINDSET:Demonstrates awareness of biases internalized racial superiority and oppression. Leads with a racial equity lens and actively uses the racial equity tool in meaningful ways.
- TRANSFORMATIONAL VALUES:Contributes to valuable and positive antiracist transformation in individuals organizations and social systems in an effort to actively progress across the antiracist multicultural institution continuum. Is able to foster a sense of community and shared purpose via collaboration and cooperation with others inside and outside Family Connections. Embodies the principles and practices that form the Agencys culture. Operates from an abundance mentality that recognizes opportunities and is optimistic and realistic about the future.
- Demonstrates cultural competence through an awareness of and sensitivity towards Agencys clients and coworkers cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
- Committed to the value of a nurturing family as the ideal environment for a child and believes in the capacity of people to grow and change.
- Works from a strengthsbased perspective.
- Recognizes that consumers come first and responds to consumers appropriately.
- Knows and adheres to all FC Policies and Procedures.
PROFESSIONALISM:
1. Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member.
2. Respects others professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings.
3. Able to give and receive constructive criticism.
4. Willing to take on extra work when needed (i.e. when there is a vacancy).
5. Performs required tasks according to the program philosophy policies and procedures.
6. Is courteous approachable and cooperative towards others and conducts self in a mature competent confident and respectful manner.
7. Understands and adheres to confidentiality rights of clients coworkers and agency consistent with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and protects personal health information in written verbal and electronic forms.
8. Practices self care has a sense of humor and possess a healthy work/ life balance important to providing great customer service.
9. Ensures the safety & comfort of others by communicating the presence of hazards injuries equipment problems or any need for help and knows the emergency evacuation and all other safety policies (universal precautions etc..
10. In times of crisis is willing to help others and communicates urgent information quickly to supervisor / Team.
11. Maintains good attendance (i.e. Maintains FT or PT schedule as contracted and attendance does not impair or negatively affect the team.
12. Is punctual for client appointments meetings etc.
13. Meets program productivity requirements.
14. Uses good judgment practices ethical decisionmaking and explores all options in problem solving.
SUPERVISION:
1. Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared.
2. Documents supervision.
3. Able to receive feedback and to learn from it.
4. Has insight about self ( and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge toward growth and change.
Youth Development Specialist responsibilities include:
1. Supervise and coordinate recreational programming and field trips.
2. Build and maintain rapport; interacting with students during appropriate times to facilitate social skill development and advocating for students as needed.
3. Facilitate prevention and psychoeducational groups.
4. Insure documentation and data input into Management Information System is completed in timely fashion.
5. Provide case management to students as necessary.
6. Monitor students academic and behavioral progress.
7. Assist in the development and marketing of programs in the school environment and community.
8. Discuss all suspected cases of abuse and neglect with Manager/Coordinator and report to DCP&P.
9. Perform other duties as deemed necessary by the Manager/Coordinator of SBYSP.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Education/Certification:
Minimum High School diploma 3 years experience as a youth service worker; Bachelors Degree in human services field preferred.
Experience:
Proven ability to work with adolescents in an urban setting.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of adolescent development knowledge of community resources knowledge of group process.
Skills and Abilities:
Ability to create a warm nonthreatening therapeutic atmosphere ability to provide nonjudgmental responses ability to counsel adolescents ability to work as a member of a team ability to advocate for students with school personnel ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Professional Characteristics: Open warm empathic attentive listener selfaware ethical creative organized flexible open to criticism patient responsible able to work independently mature selfmotivated dedicated enthusiastic will to take on additional tasks and responsibilities interested in seeking additional training and skills.
Work Environment/Physical Demands: The individual must possess the ability to perform work that requires frequent standing bending reaching squatting kneeling moving and lifting of up to or in excess of 50 pounds.
PROFESSIONALISM:
1. Values and participates in the Team as a proactive member.
2. Respects others professional opinions and tolerates a range of feelings.
3. Able to give and receive constructive criticism.
4. Willing to take on extra work when needed (i.e. when there is a vacancy).
5. Performs required tasks according to the program philosophy policies and procedures.
6. Is courteous approachable and cooperative towards others and conducts self in a mature competent confident and respectful manner.
7. Understands and adheres to confidentiality rights of clients coworkers and agency consistent with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and protects personal health information in written verbal and electronic forms.
8. Practices self care has a sense of humor and possess a healthy work/ life balance important to providing great customer service.
9. Ensures the safety & comfort of others by communicating the presence of hazards injuries equipment problems or any need for help and knows the emergency evacuation and all other safety policies (universal precautions etc..
10. In times of crisis is willing to help others and communicates urgent information quickly to supervisor / Team.
11. Maintains good attendance (i.e. Maintains FT or PT schedule as contracted and attendance does not impair or negatively affect the team.
12. Is punctual for client appointments meetings etc.
13. Meets program productivity requirements.
14. Uses good judgment practices ethical decisionmaking and explores all options in problem solving.
SUPERVISION:
1. Attends supervision consistently and comes prepared.
2. Documents supervision.
3. Able to receive feedback and to learn from it.
4. Has insight about self (i.e. strengths and weaknesses) and utilizes that knowledge toward growth and change.
Youth Development Specialist responsibilities include:
1. Supervise and coordinate recreational programming and field trips.
2. Build and maintain rapport; interacting with students during appropriate times to facilitate social skill development and advocating for students as needed.
3. Facilitate prevention and psychoeducational groups.
4. Insure documentation and data input into Management Information System is completed in timely fashion.
5. Provide case management to students as necessary.
6. Monitor students academic and behavioral progress.
7. Assist in the development and marketing of programs in the school environment and community.
8. Discuss all suspected cases of abuse and neglect with Manager/Coordinator and report to DCP&P.
9. Perform other duties as deemed necessary by the Manager/Coordinator of SBYSP.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Education/Certification:
Minimum High School diploma 3 years experience as a youth service worker; Bachelors Degree in human services field preferred.
Experience:
Proven ability to work with adolescents in an urban setting.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of adolescent development knowledge of community resources knowledge of group process.
Skills and Abilities:
Ability to create a warm nonthreatening therapeutic atmosphere ability to provide nonjudgmental responses ability to counsel adolescents ability to work as a member of a team ability to advocate for students with school personnel ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Professional Characteristics:
Open warm empathic attentive listener selfaware ethical creative organized flexible open to criticism patient responsible able to work independently mature selfmotivated dedicated enthusiastic will to take on additional tasks and responsibilities interested in seeking additional training and skills.
Work Environment/Physical Demands:
The individual must possess the ability to perform work that requires frequent standing bending reaching squatting kneeling moving and lifting of up to or in excess of 50 pounds.
Family Connections is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to excellence. Employment offers are made on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race sex religion national or ethnic origin disability age veteran status or sexual orientation or other protected classes under the State and Federal law.
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Employment Type
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