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Job Requirements of College Counselor – TAY E2:
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Employment Type:
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Location:
Los Angeles, CA (Onsite)
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College Counselor – TAY E2
Full-time, Exempt: $68,640.00 - $70,500.00
Starting as early as the 6th grade and following students through college graduation, UFC’s Education Program forges trusting relationships with youth as they navigate some of life’s most pivotal moments. By building relationships with youth over an extended period while focusing on the whole person development of youth in foster care through a Social Justice Positive Youth Development approach, United Friends’ programs focus on commitment, trauma-informed care, and empowerment.
The College Counselor on the TAY Empowerment in Education (E2) Team carries a caseload of up to 40 current and former foster youth and juvenile justice involved youth. The youth are enrolled in higher education institutions nationwide (including community college, University, and non-profit vocational school). Some youth are unenrolled but are preparing to enroll in a higher education program. Utilizing a Monday to Friday work schedule, the Counselor builds meaningful relationships with his/her/their youth to ensure they receive the best possible guidance and support as they journey through college and/or vocational school and as they continue to grow as young adults.
United Friends currently implements a hybrid work environment – schedule is determined at the discretion of management and the needs of the program and/or agency. This position will work full-time hours, Monday-Friday. As needed the College Counselor will travel to various locations throughout the Los Angeles metro area to provide on-site visits to foster youth, and occasionally to the main office in Downtown LA. Some evening, weekend, and overnight work is required.
Case Management/Coaching
- Build collaborative relationships with up to 40 young adults that nurture socio-emotional development, self-advocacy skills, and academic and career success.
- Provide individual coaching to transition-age youth that focuses on positive youth development, social justice, and academic and career success.
- Engage youth in career planning activities and conversations to build job readiness skills.
- Conduct bi-annual assessments and goal planning with youth to support overall youth development, goal setting, and achieving youths’ goals.
- Support youth in the successful completion of career development opportunities.
- Maintain consistent and frequent communication with students on caseload via phone, videoconferencing, email, and in-person to uphold the relationship-based model of services.
- Provide quality, timely educational case management to youth, utilizing United Friends’ database to document efforts.
- Monitor and encourage students’ progress to support their completion of college degree requirements.
- Refer youth to campus and community-based support services as needed.
Group Coaching and Events
- Support in planning and facilitating group coaching sessions.
- Support in planning and coordinating workshops or other program events.
- Attend community-building events to establish and maintain relationships with youth.
Advocacy and Navigation
- Engage college staff, social workers, ILP workers, and/or Probation Officers, with youth consent, in order to advocate for youth and support youth in maneuvering systems in which they are involved.
- Cultivate relationships with and serve as a liaison/advocate among community partners to increase awareness of youths’ needs and to support youth success.
- Connect youth to UFC supportive resources as needed and when appropriate, such as tutoring, financial assistance, etc.
- Connect youth with internship and job opportunities.
- Connect youth to other opportunities for Contribution and Social Action as they are offered within UFC, with UFC partners, or with other organizations.
Program Support
- Analyze caseload outcomes and trends and work with Education team to improve program model and service delivery.
- Continually expand and update professional and technical knowledge within the education, foster care, and case management fields.
- Participate in Team and Department Meetings.
Other
- Other duties as assigned.
General UFC Responsibilities
- Act as a role model within the organization to uphold and implement UFC’s organizational values:
- Embrace program evaluation that leads to excellence and impact.
- Build effective and empowering partnerships with the youth, community, and each other.
- Create a fun and exciting environment that inspires learning and innovation.
- Communicate openly, honestly and with humility across all groups.
- Work together as one organization.
- Staff hold a commitment to:
- A culturally responsive Trauma-Informed Approach to our population and client centered advocacy.
- Strong knowledge of the communities served and centralize this cultural understanding into the work.
- Support in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI).
- Evaluating the completeness, accuracy and relevance of data to determine information value and improve client services.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- 3+ years of relevant experience, including 2 or more years of case management and/or positive youth development experience.
- Demonstrated experience working with foster youth, probation youth, juvenile justice youth, Transition-Age Youth, and/or underserved college students.
- Commitment to social justice and the whole person development of youth.
- Establishes and cultivates respectful relationships with people from diverse backgrounds.
- Strong problem-solving and crisis intervention skills.
- Balances multiple competing priorities.
- Conveys thoughts and ideas clearly, listens well, communicates in a solution-oriented manner, and incorporates others’ views into work.
- Holds self-accountable, sets high expectations for self and others, works both independently and collaboratively and relates tasks to organizational values.
- Trauma-informed and client-centered advocacy.
- Understand the communities served and centralize this cultural understanding into the work.
- Passionate about United Friends’ mission.
- Must have valid California Driver’s License and an insured and reliable vehicle.
Preferred Qualifications:
- An understanding of and sensitivity to issues concerning youth formerly in foster care.
- An understanding of and sensitivity to issues concerning youth who experienced the juvenile justice system.
- Demonstrated success in maintaining relationships through technology (e.g., phone, email, social media).
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