Youth Coach

The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES); New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 53,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting

12 Paid Holidays per year

Retirement 403(b) with company match

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

CASES is seeking a Youth Coach to engage with young people through meaningful conversations, goal-setting, and supportive, strengths-based guidance. The role emphasizes trauma-informed youth development and requires travel throughout the assigned borough, with at least 80% of client contact in the community.

Salary is $61,800 per year. The position is full-time, with hours 10am–6pm, Monday–Friday, and includes flexible work arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years' experience working with young people.
• Commitment to youth engagement through collaboration with youth and their families.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and motivate youth.
• Trained in or committed to trauma-informed approaches.
• Experience developing relationships with schools, community-based organizations or other youth service providers.
• Schedule flexibility to accommodate 10am–6pm hours.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with young people and their families to support participant contacts.
• Support youth in adhering to mandates from court.
• Plan after-school activities and school-break attendance.
• Collaborate with school staff to support educational success and monitor attendance.
• Partner with youth to set short- and long-term goals.
• Be accessible outside program hours in case of crisis.
• Facilitate groups as needed.
• Document contacts and efforts daily.
• Connect youth to positive community activities and verify participation.
• Engage families in goal and aftercare plan development.
• Administer needed assessments to inform youth goal planning.
• Participate in weekly supervision meetings and onboarding trainings.

Skills

Bilingual Spanish & English

Youth engagement

Trauma-informed

Communication skills

Flexibility

Job description

Job Title:

Youth Coach

Job Summary:

• Looking to work with young people by engaging them in meaningful conversation, setting goals, and providing support and encouragement?
• An outside-the-box thinker who can employ creative approaches?
• Someone who believes that change is possible?
• Passionate about working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed, youth development lens?

Becoming a Youth Coach at CASES could be what you are looking for. As a Youth Coach, you will:

Travel is expected throughout the assigned borough or to where participant is – feels safest - and a minimum of 80% of the client contact will be in the community.

Salary:

The salary for this role is $61,800 per year.

Shift Hours:

This positionisfull-timeMonday-Friday 10am-6pm. F lexibility required to be responsive to youth needs (occasionally accompanying to school in AM, picking up phone calls in PM.

Location Address:

412 East 147th Street, Bronx, NY, 10455

Workplace Flexibility:

Flexible - Positions for which staff have flexibility to complete their workday from home or another suitable space, typically after reporting to the office and/or engaging in field or community-based work.

What you will be doing:

• Develop relationships with young people and their families to support participant compliance of in-person contacts twice weekly and weekly phone calls
• Support young people in the adherence to obligations set forth by their mandate from court
• Plan activities to attend with participants after school and school breaks
• Create relationships with Education staff from school's young people attend to support their educational success including monitoring school attendance
• Partner with young people to establish goals short and long term
• Be accessible to young people outside of program hours in case of crisis
• Facilitate groups as needed
• Daily documentation of contacts/efforts
• Connect youth to positive activities in their communities and verify their attendance and participation
• Work closely with families to engage them in the development of goal plans and aftercare plans
• Administer assessment tools as needed including mental health, risk, and educational assessments to assist in the development of youth goal plans
• Engage in a weekly team and individual supervision meetings led by supervisor
• Adhere to ACS-mandated onboarding core trainings and annual training requirements

What we are looking for:

• At least 2 years' experience working with young people Desire to learn from youth
• Commitment to youth engagement through collaboration with youth and their families
• Demonstrated ability to engage and motivate youth
• Positive attitude and excellent problem-solving skills
• Trained in or committed to training to become competent in trauma informed approaches as a means of engaging young people
• Experience developing relationships with schools, community-based organizations and/or other youth service providers
• Schedule flexibility: General hours are 10am-6pm, but some activities require us to start earlier or end later

Preferred Skills:

• Bilingual Spanish & English

Employee Benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days
• 12 Paid Holidays per year.
• Retirement 403(b) Competitive matching up to 6%.
• Employee Referral Program

Our Values

At CASES, we like to move with PURPOSE, which reflects our values:

PEOPLE| Hold people’s stories with dignity

UNITY| Commit to a shared mission

RESPECT| Celebrate the strength of diversity

PROGRESS| Always work to improve

OPTIMIZE| Make the best use of resources

SOLUTIONS| Work together to solve problems

EMPATHY| Seek to understand others

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.

Schedule flexibility: General hours are 10am-6pm, but some activities require us to start earlier or end later

35 hours per week excluding breaks