Just Us, Economic Empowerment Supervisor in Queens, New York at Rising Ground, Inc.

Job Summary:

JustUs is an ACS-funded Gender Responsive Diversion Program facilitated by Rising Gound. This program is a holistic, gender-responsive program for girls, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary youth (TGNBNC) youth who are involved, or at high risk of involvement, in the youth justice system. The project - which is grounded in the tenets of healing-centered, anti-oppressive practice - brings together highly skilled individual coaching; evidence-based clinical interventions; opportunities for young people to engage in group-based activities; economic empowerment skill building; and space where young people can come together to build community. All elements of the project are intentionally designed to support young people in cultivating their leadership skills; building their self-reliance; forging healthy social relationships; developing diverse strategies to avoid engaging in criminalized behavior/activities; and greatly enhancing their educational experiences and work opportunities.

Job Responsibilities:

The full-time Education & Employment Specialist will provide youth-driven, healing-centered, anti-oppressive, education & employment support and advocacy to all young people engaged in the project. This is an exciting and demanding opportunity for someone looking to participate in the expansion of a program that is designed to become a national model. Core responsibilities include:

• Connect with all young people seeking education and employment services within the program;

• Intentionally and regularly engage all young people in, at least, biweekly individual sessions focused on assisting young people with attaining education and/or employment;

• Design and facilitate a large and diverse series of education & employment themed workshops based on the interests of the young person enrolled in the program;

• With each young person, co-construct individualized engagement plans and assess and revise the throughout the length of the young person’s engagement with the program;

• On a rotating schedule, be available to help staff the Teen Hub on the weekend;

• Engage in collaboration and case coordination with all program staff and a vast network of stakeholders;

• Participate in weekly supervision, team meetings, group supervision, and attend other required meetings as required

• Maintain program records, case files, and funder reports with accuracy and attention to timeliness detail;

• Other duties are required.

Qualifications

• Experience providing case management services and/or working with adolescents;

• BA/BS required; MSW, MHC-LP or other graduate clinical degree preferred;

• Highly organized, self-motivated worker who can easily manage competing demands;

• Creative problem-solver who anticipates challenges and seizes opportunities for collaboration;

• Able to implement vision, think strategically, exercise good judgment, and lead change;

• High level of self-awareness and ability to give and receive feedback well.

• Impeccable attention to detail, systems, and processes;

• Ability to work with flexibility, independence, accountability, passion, and humor;

• Meaningful commitment to practicing from a healing-centered, anti- oppressive stance;

• Lived experience within systems that impact the young people who will be involved in the project including the youth justice and criminal legal system strongly preferred but not required.

Supervisory Responsibility

No

Work Environment:

Normal

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

Exempt/10:30am-6:30pm

Travel (if required): No

Physical Requirements:

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.