JOB TITLE: Lead Youth Career Coach (SW and HP)

DIVISION: Youth Services

DEPARTMENT: Youth Services

LOCATION: Youth Reengagement Center (Southwest Detroit) and Highland Park American Job Center

REPORTS TO: Youth Services Manager

FLSA STATUS: Exempt/Salaried

CLASSIFICATION: Full-Time Regular

APPROVED DATE: 7/1/2026

JOB SUMMARY: The Lead Youth Career Coach supervises the Case Management, and Employment Services teams, providing leadership, guidance, programming, and oversight to ensure high-quality service delivery and achievement of program outcomes. This position coordinates the staffing, logistics, and implementation of programming for WIOA Youth, YouthBuild, and other workforce development contracts, ensuring compliance with funding requirements and performance goals. The Lead Youth Career Coach oversees case management and programming designed to promote educational attainment, work readiness, leadership development, apprenticeship exposure, work-based learning, supportive services, and access to vetted employment opportunities, while monitoring participant progress and program quality to ensure successful youth outcomes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Yes

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit for extended periods of time, and have sufficient hand, arm, and finger dexterity to operate a phone, computer keyboard, and other office equipment. Must be able to lift a minimum of 10 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a normal office environment with little discomfort due to noise, dirt, dust and the like. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a person assigned to this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties and responsibilities that may be performed by a person so classified. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.