Job Description
- Bachelors degree required, masters preferred
- At least 1 year's experience working with High School youth in an urban setting.
- Astute knowledge of performance-based contracting with clients.
- Experience working with students on achieving positive outcomes for success.
- Workshop implementation experience preferred.
- Establish a rapport with all program participants. Assist them in identifying their educational and career goals; help them to formulate future plans.
- Implement and conduct workshops on work readiness, career development, life skills, and student enrichment.
- Recruit students; and conduct intake assessments and interviews.
- Monitor the attendance and academic progress of participants on assigned caseload.
- Provide interpersonal group and individual counseling.
- Provide necessary referrals to community resources.
- Work in a collaborative team, including participation in staff meetings and staff development in order to support student progress.
- Monitor and document student progress in various service areas (guidance and counseling, academic support, life skills, work readiness).
- Facilitate afterschool programming.
Job Details
- Promote and implement the Core Values of the Community Center.
- Participation in all staff meetings and staff training seminars.
- Participation in agency-wide programs and program committees, as assigned.
- Active involvement, as a supervisee, in the supervision process.
- Support the mission of the Commonpoint Queens.
- Other tasks appropriate to the Commonpoint Queens staff, as assigned.