Title: | Transitions Coordinator |
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ID: | 1176 |
Job Title: | Transitions Coordinator |
Client: | Guadalupe Alternative Programs (GAP) |
Application Deadline: | N/A |
Guadalupe Alternative Programs (GAP) is a community-based education and social service agency serving at-risk individuals throughout the Twin Cities. GAP’s mission is to empower communities challenged by transition and poverty through education and enrichment opportunities, social and emotional support, and training that leads to employment. GAP serves children and youth at high-risk of school failure, and immigrants and refugees seeking to create a better life in this country.
To ensure youth are cognitively, socially, and emotionally equipped to succeed, our programming maintains a focus on three critical goals: 1) Educating our students by providing at-risk adolescents a safe, structured environment to learn and grow; 2) Supporting our students with comprehensive counseling and support services that are socially and culturally sensitive; and 3) Empowering our students with a continuum of training that builds personal leadership as well as job and career awareness/readiness.
(www.gapschool.org)
Job Title: Transitions Coordinator
Reports To: Director of Employment and Training
Do you have passion for:
- Impacting the lives of young people?
- Helping young people transition to the world of working or the world of higher education?
- Training and teaching others?
- Building relationships with community and business partners?
Reason position exists:
- To help students transition into jobs and secondary education.
- To lead pathway teams and facilitate meetings.
- To build rapport with students to address their life goals and challenges.
- To implement and deliver career and college readiness curriculum.
- To manage and ensure compliance with grants.
- Build relationships with employers and education institutions.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as Career Counselor for assigned pathway
- Assist students in transitioning into jobs and secondary education.
- Build and maintain relationships with prospective employers and secondary education opportunities
- Assist students in completing job applications, preparing for interviews, and maintaining consistent employment
- Team successfully with external organizations
- Deliver Career and College Readiness instruction
- Design, implement and evaluate a curriculum for a career and college readiness course that is aligned with the pathway goals
- Provide two hours of instruction per day for our Youth Employment & Training program
- Actively participate in assessment and data reporting processes
- Support Students
- Participate in case management and advising processes for a caseload of Youth Employment & Training program students
- Develop and maintain positive home/school relationships
- Be an advocate for the program and Youthbuild/Americorp
- Have positive relationships with students and staff
- Implement strategies to help the assigned pathway team succeed
- Build relationships with students and volunteer sites
- Contribute to the program’s success
- Develop and find community partners
- Manage outcomes for assigned pathway
- Work with GAP School Operations Manager to track outcomes as dictated by organization and program funders
- Actively participate with Organizational Impact Team to develop smooth data tracking and management tools and measure outcomes
- Build community internal and external to GAP
- Be an ambassador for GAP’s mission
- Step outside the job description when needed
Qualifications:
Required:
- Education: BA
- Experience: 1+ year of experience in the field of training
- Software: Use of word and excel programs
- Interpersonal: Must be able to work well with students and staff
Preferred:
- Experience: 2+ years of experience in placement services
- Other: Connections to employers/institutions
Attributes:
- Strong communication skills (listening, writing, presenting, facilitating, coaching, leading)
- Comfortable working with students 16-24 years of age
- Ability to work with ELL students
- Flexible, adaptable and open to others’ ideas
- Strong critical thinking/problem solving skills with results-orientation
- Desire and ability to hold self and others accountable
- Effectively work with cross functional teams
Compensation:
- Salary range: $38,500-53,000 annually
- Complete benefits package including personal days, sick days, health and dental insurance, long-term disability, and 403b program (matching after one year).
- Competitive Time Off Plan: 10 personal days and all school holidays/breaks
- Contract is school year plus 240 hours over summer break