Senior Family Navigator (Senior Community Program Specialist)

University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB); Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation/leave benefits

Health insurance

Professional development

Tuition remission (limited)

Life insurance

Flexible schedules / teleworking where

Job summary

The Embrace Initiative, in partnership with University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), seeks a Safer Stronger Together Senior Family Navigator to coordinate family support across Maryland state agencies. The role connects families to resources, advocates for access, and helps transform systems with community partners.

The position is grant-funded and located in Cambridge, MD, with potential evening/weekend hours as needed.

Qualifications

• Grant-funded contractual position.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with agencies to serve shared families across systems.
• Serve as liaison with families and public agencies to advocate for resources.

Job description

The Embrace Initiative: A Civic Engagement Initiative at University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, caring, and team-oriented Safer Stronger Together Senior Family Navigator (Senior Community Program Specialist).

The mission of The Embrace Initiative is to collaborate with community to create a world that is safe, just, and equitable. We accomplish our mission through partnerships between grassroots, non-profits, city agencies, and institutes of higher education by engaging in accessing resources, removing barriers, making connections, and transforming systems.

The Embrace Initiative is partnering with state government to launch the Safer Stronger Together Initiative (SST). The Safer Stronger Together Initiative was developed by leadership of the MD Department of Human Services (responsible for child welfare, public benefits and child support services), the MD Department of Juvenile Services (the state's juvenile justice system), and the MD Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (statewide correctional, parole and probation services). The three agencies have identified over 2,000 families across Maryland who touch two or more of their three systems. The Safer Stronger Together Initiative, in close partnership with the Embrace Initiative at UMB, will bring staff at these three agencies together to collaborate and coordinate to serve shared families. The Safer Stronger Together Family Navigator will be assigned to a site within one of the three agencies to act as the liaison with the families and the public agencies, to assist families in advocating for themselves, and taking advantage of available resources.

This grant-funded, contractual position is located in a community-based organization in Cambridge, MD, and requires the ability to work evenings and weekends as necessary.

Benefits Information

• Contingent Category II staff receive a generous leave package that includes over 2 weeks of vacation each year, paid holidays, sick time, and time for community service
• subsidized comprehensive health insurance and supplemental retirement options
• professional learning and development programs
• limited tuition remission for employees enrolled at UMB
• life insurance and long-term disability
• flexible work schedules and teleworking options (if applicable per job)

UMB is a public university and constituent institution of the University System of Maryland. All employees are expected to work primarily physically within the State of Maryland.

Primary Duties

• Responsible for all aspects of coordination of