Youth Development Specialist (hourly)

Metropolitan Family Services; Midway, Hammond (TX, IN); On-site; USD 25,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental Coverage

Vision Coverage

HSA Employer Match

Teladoc Access

401K Plan

Job summary

Metropolitan Family Services is seeking a Youth Development Specialist to support our Community Schools program in Texas. The role focuses on designing activities, mentoring youth, and promoting positive growth through youth voice and leadership opportunities.

Responsibilities include direct service delivery during school and after-school hours, collaboration with families, and teamwork with staff. The position requires a high school diploma or GED and 3+ years of youth-related experience.

Qualifications

• Experience working with youth and youth development programs.
• Ability to engage diverse groups effectively.
• Open-minded and yes-minded approach.
• See youth as experts and empower their voices.
• Apply strength-based perspective in activities.
• Communicate with parents as needed.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365/Microsoft Office.
• Available to work a flexible schedule including evenings and some weekends.

Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate activities meeting diverse youth needs.
• Use positive youth development to foster leadership and resiliency.
• Mentor youth to support growth, life skills, and social-emotional learning.
• Deliver direct services through academic, recreational, and life-skills activities.
• Offer services during school hours or after school times.
• Contact parents/guardians to address needs as needed.
• Collaborate with team members and supervisor; attend meetings and trainings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Youth development experience

Diversity collaboration

Open-minded attitude

Youth empowerment

Strengths-based approach

Parent communication

Microsoft 365 proficiency

Evenings/weekends availability

Education

High School diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

If asked to describe the culture at Metropolitan Family Services, we could do that in one word. COMMUNITY! Reflected in both our internal culture as well as through the services we provide, community is at the heart of all we do.

Metropolitan Family Services(MFS) empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. Part mentor, part motivator, part advocate, since 1857, Metropolitan Family Services has been the engine of change that empowers families to reach their greatest potential and positively impact their communities. Are you looking to have an impact on more than just a company’s bottom line? Then we’d love to hear from you!

We are currently looking to fill hourly Youth Development Specialist roles to join our Community Schools team!

Our Community Schools operate during non-school hours and expand positive choices and opportunities for youth while achieving academic success.

SALARY: The average hourly rate for this position will fall in the range of $18.00 and $35.00. Where candidates fall in this range will be based on skill and experience level.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Responsible for designing and facilitating activities that meet the diverse needs of youth clients and community needs.
• Utilizes a positive youth development and strength-based approach to empower youth, promote youth voice, and offer leadership opportunities.
• Mentors' youth to foster resiliency, positive growth, life skills, and social emotional learning. Promotes personal, social, and educational growth.
• Provides direct service to youth and adult clients (parents, guardians, community members) by creating and leading academic, recreational, and/or life skills activities.
• Services may be offered during the school day or out-of-school time.
• May contact parents/guardians to address specific needs of youth.
• Works collaboratively with team members and supervisor.
• Attends team meetings, trainings and agency wide events as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES:

• Experience working with youth, facilitating youth development or related programs.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups.
• Maintains an open minded and yes minded approach.
• Ability to see youth as experts of their lives.
• Understands a strength-based perspective.
• Ability to communicate with parents as needed.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365/Microsoft office or the ability to learn within the first 6 months.
• Available to work a flexible schedule that includes evenings and some weekends.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School diploma or GED, required.
• 3+ years youth-related experience, required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Satisfactorily pass all screenings and criminal background checks.

TRANSPORTATION/TRAVLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Driving for work preferred with a personally owned vehicle. Travel between sites required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch. The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing and viewing a computer terminal.

Metropolitan Family Services puts our people first with a top-of-the-line benefits package.

Some highlights include:

• Medical Coverage, Dental Coverage, and Vision Coverage.
• Metropolitan Family Services contributions of $2,000 to individual, and $4,000 to family, HSA accounts, pro-rated to your benefits start date.
• FREE General Medicine and Behavioral Health Teladoc services provided to all team members.
• Ascensus 401K plan services with a 4% employer match, vested at 100% on day one of eligibility.

And so much more!

Some of the above benefits are available for part-time and temporary workers, but not all. Be sure to inquire upon your hire as to which benefits apply to you.

MORE ABOUT US:

Metropolitan is Illinois' first comprehensive human services agency and reaches more than 122,970 individuals and families in Chicago, Evanston/Skokie, the southwest suburbs, and DuPage County with services promoting education, economic stability, emotional wellness, and empowerment.

Qualifications

Skills

Preferred

Expert

Education

Required

High School or better.

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