Self Determination Coordinator - San Jose

Youngwomenfree; California (MO); On-site; USD 35,232,000 - 50,179,000; Full time

Job summary

Youngwomenfree is seeking a Self-Determination Coordinator to empower youth through restorative justice, cultural grounding, and gender-specific support. The role emphasizes building self-determination and advocating for youth in navigating housing, education, and community resources.

The position involves on-site work with young cis and trans women, girls, and gender-expansive youth, coordinating intakes, life maps, and leadership programs while aligning with the organization’s mission and

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with youth in restorative justice or similar context.
• Ability to conduct intakes, assessments, and goal setting.
• Strong advocacy and navigation of community resources.

Responsibilities

• Build rapport with youth on-site and in community settings to ensure access to support.
• Conduct interviews and assessments and develop Self-Determined Life Maps with resources.
• Collaborate with program staff to connect youth to leadership and advocacy opportunities.
• Provide orientation and training to staff, interns, and volunteers on guiding principles and procedures.
• Plan and oversee Self-Determination activities, culture circles, and youth-driven projects.
• Coordinate early career exploration, scholarships, college tours, and mentoring opportunities.
• Engage participants as community experts and create leadership-based opportunities.
• Monitor referrals and maintain relationships with external agencies and system partners.
• Participate in strategy meetings and local campaigns as needed.
• Support youth in navigating systems such as juvenile justice and foster care.

Skills

Rapport building

Interviews

Advocacy

Leadership development

Community partnerships

Job description

The Position: The Self-Determination Coordinator role is grounded in YWFC’s approach to personal and structural transformation and is guided by the organization’s guiding principles of Sisterhood/ Siblinghood, Self- Determination, Spirituality, and Social Justice The Self-Determination Coordinator works to ensure that participants of YWFC’s programs have the space, resources, access, and advocacy needed to support them in their healing journey, as well as accessing their own power and voice to navigate the systems and conditions that impact their lives. The Self Determination Coordinator works closely with all program staff and program participants, playing a critical role in supporting young cis and trans women and girls, trans men and boys and gender expansive youth* in finding their voice, building self-determination and using their expertise and experiences to advocate on behalf of themselves and others. The role of the Self Determination Coordinator is to ensure that youth at YWFC are provided support from a peer-based, restorative justice framework that is culturally grounded, and gender-specific. Additionally, the SD Coordinator ensures that the organization has the proper resources, support, and partners in place to support this work. They are responsible for conducting initial intakes and assessments, working with youth to identify their needs and strengths, assisting them in developing personal and professional goals, and providing support in accessing community resources, such as housing, child care, educational programs, etc. Additionally, this position is responsible for ensuring that all coaching approaches and methods are in line with the organization’s mission, vision, values, theory of change, methodology, as well as ensuring that we fulfill grant requirements, and YWFC annual goals and Site goals.

Salary 31.25.hr

General Duties

• Building rapport with youth on-site at YWFC and off-site at program locations including juvenilehall, jail, group homes, and county jail, to ensure folks receive the appropriate support throughphone calls, snail mail, advocacy letter, and referrals appropriate services
• Conduct interviews, assessments, and develop Self-Determined Life Maps and provide resourcesfor youth onsite at the Center and off-site at program locations including juvenile hall, jail, andgroup homes, and in the community
• Work as a part of the YWFC team, supporting youth connect to YWFC after detention throughself-determination advocacy and leadership programs, and ensuring activities are cohesive andcoordinated amongst program staff
• Provide orientation and training to new staff, interns and volunteers who will support leadershipprogramming of YWFC’s guiding principles, methodology, and policy and procedures
• Plan, facilitate, and oversee Self-Determination Advocacy activities, including Culture and HealingCircles and Programs, youth-driven community projects, special events, and other outings
• Coordinate early career exploration and leadership development, including sharing jobopportunities, scholarship information, college tours, financial aid workshops, career mentoring,and healing centered opportunities
• Engage participants as community experts and provide leadership based economic opportunitiesfor participants to begin to engage in YWFC’s work as appropriate and as a part of a larger sitebased strategy
• Collaborate with other program staff on building organizing and advocacy capacity and skills foryouth ready to step into leadership roles and engage in YWFC advocacy initiatives.
• Monitor referrals and maintain relationships with the staff of external stakeholders and systempartners working with participants, including, but not limited to Probation Departments, PublicDefender's, community-based agencies, School districts, Social Workers, etc.
• Participate in necessary meetings with other team members to ensure holistic support andadditional support strategies needed to better support participant
• Participate in YWFC’s movement, policy, and local campaign work on an ongoing basis including;participating in strategy and strategy related meetings as necessary, participating in work toadvance local campaigns, represent the organization publicly as requested and approved, andparticipate in coalitions and other community based work as approved/ requested by supervisor
• Support participants in navigating systems (juvenile justice, foster care, mental health, etc.) byproviding advocacy, resources, and ongoing support in self-advocacy strategies and education.
• Build authentic, deeply supportive relationships with youth participating in programs and orensure staff working with youth are maintaining YWFC standards of conduct, exemplifying YWFCvalues, and utilizing YWFC methodologies and frameworks

Reporting and Evaluation

• Maintain and enter data into appropriate data collection systems for reporting for both city and county, and foundation grant requirements and internal organizational systems/databases in atimely manner
• Maintain weekly program notes and reporting, and collect data pertaining to programmatic goalsto contribute to quarterly progress reports
• Oversee all reporting requirements for your respective work plans (monthly reports, datacollection, operations reports, Supervision check ins, etc.) and ensure all proper forms arecompleted, progress is monitored, and data is updated.
• Provide monthly program summaries to the Site Director including quantitative and qualitativedata of all programmatic activities, trainings and outcomes pertaining to programmatic goals
• Ensure programs and program activities are evaluated and updated on an ongoing basis and thatfeedback and findings from evaluations are used to develop, revise, and update programs andactivities
• Track participant attendance and engagement, and provide support and accountability to youtharound consistent attendance and engaged participation
• Ensure program forms, overviews, flyers, curriculums, and any other significant program data isupdated and stored appropriately, in accordance with YWFC’s filing and storage procedures

Administrative Duties

• Participate in special projects, and tasks as needed and directed by supervisor and other YWFCDirectors in efforts to support the advancement of YWFC and site goals
• Create ongoing opportunities for leadership development of youth that we work with includingopportunities to learn new tasks and skills, take leadership in the work, and engage in ongoingopportunities.
• Respond to emails, text messages, and other correspondence in a timely manner
• Participate in YWFC events, staff meetings, trainings, and staff development opportunities on anongoing basis
• Embode and model the values of the organization: Sisterhood/Siblinghood, Self-determination,social justice, and spirituality.