Youth/Young Adult Coordinator ($33,750)

Description:

POSITION: Youth/Young Adult Coordinator FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Non-exempt

STATUS: Full-time NORMAL WORKING HOURS/DAYS: TBD

SALARY: $33,750 Annually (Grant funded)

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Program Director, the Youth/Young Adult Coordinator will serve as part of a multidisciplinary team, and through the use of his or her personal lived experience to connect with, validate, inspire, and provide support to transition-age youth diagnosed with serious mental health conditions in reaching their goals and increase community awareness of mental health challenges and coping techniques among transition-age youth. The Youth/Young Adult Coordinator is responsible for providing peer support services and systems navigation; This position has no direct reports.

Position Responsibilities:

• Assist clients in developing self-advocacy and negotiating skills. Serve as a role model to clients in communication, health and wellness, and conflict resolution.
• Share lived experience, as appropriate, to establish credibility and trust with clients and their families, and as part of a team in community outreach and education efforts.
• Assist the team in partnering with clients to support engagement in services, articulate preferences and concerns, and identify people within their support network and new resources that will support their personal goal attainment.
• Facilitate individual and group meetings with clients that promote sharing, learning, and growth and are designed to meet the individualized needs of each client (e.g., unstructured topical groups, skill-based groups, etc.).
• Assist team with championing initiatives to increase client engagement in services.
• Provide program evaluation support to the Program Evaluator and Program Director of Education & Community Engagement.
• Provide peer support services and systems navigation to clients.

Mental, Physical, and Visual Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus. The ability to drive is a requirement of the position.

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret data, information and documents; analyze and solve non-routine and complex problems; use math and mathematical reasoning; observe and interpret situations; learn and apply new information or skills; perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks; work under intensive deadlines with frequent interruptions; and interact with the community stakeholders including elected and appointed officials, staff, people served, the public and others encountered in the course of work.

Working Conditions:

Normal office environment. Must be familiar with basic office equipment (e.g. computer, facsimile, copier, postage machines, etc.).

Comments:

This position description is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general supplemental functions, and the essential requirements for the performance of this job. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements of a person so classified. Other functions or duties may be assigned, and management retains the right to add to, or change the duties of this position at any time.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Must have lived experience with a mental illness and experience in receiving mental health services and has the capacity to share his or her story in a way that engages, inspires, and validates the experiences of the client.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• Ability to effectively share information about services and resources.
• Outstanding written, oral communication and presentation skills
• Ability to upload ongoing program evaluations, pre- and post- surveys as well as outreach evaluation tools.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision both remotely and in the office.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to work in the evening and on weekends.
• Must be familiar with basic office equipment (e.g. computer, facsimile, copier, postage machines, etc.).
• Previous working experience and familiarity with the service population is preferred.