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Job Description
Title:
Project Director DOJ STOP School Violence grant
FLSA:
Exempt
Reports To:
Chief Program Officer
Organization Summary:
The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth (TLC) is a social enterprise company serving the Greater Philadelphia Area for over 50 years. Founded in 1970 and incorporated in 1983 TLC is an entrepreneurial nonprofit providing innovative education coaching and counseling services to public school students and their families. For more information please visit
Position Summary:
The Director will manage project daily operations ensuring activities are completed and objectives are met within budget. The Director will oversee one 1 Project Trainer at Breakthrough Public Schools in Cleveland Ohio and be the primary liaison between Breakthrough Public Schools and The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
Lead the Project Trainer with initiatives related to decreasing incidents of violence in school
Implement an evidencebased school safety plan.
Conduct assessments of schools and individuals to identify safety risks and individuals determined to be a potential threat to themselves or others receive a school threat assessment and are referred for services.
Enhance multidisciplinary teams that identify school violence threats and mitigate those risks.
Lead the Project Trainer with project work related to addressing student mental health and behavioral challenges and adolescent stressors by way of Socioemotional Learning training
Develop and implement multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment (BTA) and/or intervention teams.
Provide specialized training or create specialized nontraining policies for law enforcement who work in schools and/or with schoolage populations such as school resource officers (SROs) and probation officers: Behavioral threat assessment in school settings.
Serve as the Steering Committee Chair
Work toward goals of improving students mental health reducing adverse behaviors chronic absenteeism and academic deficits that may result from occurring school violence
Manage project daily operations ensuring activities are completed and objectives are met within budget
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Coordinate activities with Breakthrough Public Schools and The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth
Responsible for ensuring project data is collected for evaluation and project continuous improvement
Skills:
Flexible selfdirected motivated and meet deadlines
Prosocial collaboration communication and problem solving
Researchbased knowledge of youthfocused intervention services
Ability to implement and revise partnerships and programs as needed
Capacity to work with and unite disparate groups
Strong sense of compassion and commitment to helping people
Maintaining consistency with program expectations to encourage academic social and personal growth
Strong relationship and teambuilding skills
Ability to work in a teamdriven environment with social services personnel and educators
Ability to communicate clearly
Strong organizational skills
Multitasking capability
Detailoriented
Education and Experience:
Masters degree in education counseling social work or related areas and at least 5 years of administrative experience in education. Additionally the project director will have credentials to train in project evidencebased practices. Preference given to candidates with experience managing federal grants.
Work Environment:
School settings
Work Hours:
This is a 52 week fulltime position.
Travel:
Travel is occasional between schools.
EEO Statement:
TLC is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate on any legally recognized basis including but not limited to race age color religion sex marital status national origin citizenship ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status or any other basis recognized by federal state or local law.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Contract
