Peer Mentor at Rising Ground, Inc. – Brooklyn, New York

Job Summary:

The Peer Mentor will facilitate parenting skills training and related workshops, organize community projects, and conduct outreach and recruitment for the program. Develop relationships with community-based organizations that will serve as ongoing referral sources. The Peer Mentor will achieve specific target recruitment goals each quarter for the Brooklyn and Harlem location.

Job Responsibilities:

• The Peer Mentor will collaborate with the directors to develop and implement a recruitment strategy to identify fathers.
• The Peer Mentor will support the Fatherhood Initiative to deliver eight required activities: 1. Orientation, 2. Parenting Skills Training, 3. Supervised Visitation Coaching, 4. Case Management, 5. Community Projects, 6. Support Groups, 7. Family Events, and 8. Workshops.
• The Peer Mentor will support The Fatherhood Initiative serve and customize services for fathers with varying levels of child visitation, coparent engagement, court and agency orders, skills, and needs. Fatherhood will offer four service tier options to participants. The Fatherhood Initiative will implement parenting skills training to participants with two different curricula: ProFatherhing15 and Supporting Father Involvement (SFI).
• Provide individual, family and group counseling, provide direct services/case planning to clients including mediation/conflict resolution training to fathers to facilitate effective co-parenting and visitation. When necessary, Case Managers will assist with supervised or monitored visitation opportunities for fathers.
• Enter progress notes in DYCD data system of record.

Qualifications:

• Lived experience as a father that has either disconnected from and or had supervised visitation with a child.
• Has a history of being an effective group leader with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal and written communication are essential
• Computer proficient
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus

Supervisory Responsibility: No

Work Environment: Hybrid (See Agency Remote Work Policy)

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: Full time position, scheduled appropriate to the needs of client and families. This position calls for a thirty-five (35) hour work week, but more than 35 hours per week may from time to time be required.

Travel (if required): Travel requirements may include travel from Rising Ground sites and various locations. Work-related travel expenses will be reimbursed by agency.

Physical Requirements: Must have the ability to complete all standard administrative and support tasks including but not limited to climbing up and down stairs, operation of computers/phones/fax/printer/copy machine, and the ability to lift boxes, furniture, and equipment up to 50lbs. Must be able to travel from the various locations and sites of Rising Ground.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s

perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or

veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring,

compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer,

layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.