Senior Curriculum Specialist

****Please note this is an internal opportunity for current Youth Guidance employees****

Position Summary: Senior Curriculum Specialist (SCR) primary responsibility is to serve as a supervisor and mentor to Curriculum Specialist (CS) by providing traditional and clinical supervision. This includes focusing on the CS's professional development in learning BAM Training Academy model. The SCR will also provide support and consultation to BAM Counselors regarding curriculum implementation via curriculum development/revision, curriculum cohort training, and on-site/off-site coaching to ensure program fidelity and BAM Counselor professional development.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Leads BAM curriculum training to include ongoing curriculum development and revisions based on the needs of the program
• Manages, coaches and provides ongoing feedback to Curriculum Specialists
• Provides on-going coaching, both on-site and off-site, via the 10-step Coaching Model and 5 areas of Conceptual Feedback
• Supports, builds, and shares best practices with BAM Counselors to ensure positive student outcomes by providing guidance in the areas of professional responsibilities, prioritization, time, and resource allocation
• Assures the agency's core values and key concepts are interwoven into program design and implementation, as allowed by program stakeholders
• Trains BAM sports mentors in BAM philosophy and methods
• Supports, builds, and shares best practices for positive student outcomes.
• Serves as co-leader for BAM cohort training and lead trainer as needed
• Provides ongoing trainings at BAM meetings (Summer and Winter Institute)
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Experience/Training

• Master's Degree in social work, human services or counseling related to area from an

accredited university program or High School Diploma with a minimum of 10 years of experience in related field

• Five years of work experience in education, human service, youth development, or social service field
• One year experience as a Curriculum Specialist
• Experience in administration and program development is preferred
• Three years working as BAM Counselor preferred

Skills/Abilities

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Proven leadership and organizational abilities
• Demonstrated passion and dedication to the agency's mission and the continuous

improvement of service quality

• Succinct and clear verbal and written communication skills
• Proven accountability of timely documentation and attendance to curriculum trainings and team meetings
• Strong coaching skills
• Strong interpersonal skills that excel in cultural sensitivity and respect for differences
• Ability to function in group and team settings with the capacity to be solutions-focused, task-driven and innovative in those settings
• Demonstrated program competence and expertise

Core Competencies

• Communication:Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams, and community served; demonstrates empathy and listening
• Client orientation:Recognizes needs of diverse stakeholders and approaches relationships with a service orientation, to ultimately maximize the impact
• Equity mindset:Understands and is committed to goals of equity, consistently brings an equity mindset to the organization's work and workplace
• Growth mindset:Views growth as important for personal and professional development; seeks out opportunities to expand skills, even if the change is required, demonstrates curiosity and eagerness to learn
• Ownership and quality of work:Effectively manages own work, and work of the team to ensure delivery of high-quality work
• Supervisory skills:Effectively manages and develops others
• Mission drive:Demonstrates commitment to the missing of the organization as a whole and alignment with organization values

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This job operates in a professional office environment, school setting and working with the public, COVID-19 vaccination is required
• Occasional local and national travel

DEI Statement

At Youth Guidance, we understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are fundamental to realizing our vision of bright and successful futures for all young people. We celebrate the diversity of youth and recognize them as empowered leaders, problem-solvers, and experts of their own experiences. At the same time, we acknowledge that many systems and institutions meant to support youth are inequitable and unjust.

As such, we are committed to advancing DE&I through our words and our actions, both internally and externally, by:

• Strengthening cultural competence as well as policies, practices, and organizational structures that foster belonging and leverage the unique backgrounds and talents of staff;
• Offering youth-centered programs that are accessible and responsive to people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, abilities, sexual identity, gender identity and expression, language, and cultural and religious beliefs and practices;
• Influencing systems that youth, their families, and communities are impacted by, such as schools, organizational networks, governmental bodies, researchers, and the funding community, to apply approaches that embrace DEI in addressing the needs and supporting the aspirations of young people.