Positive Youth Development Coordinator

Crittenton Services of Greater Washington (Crittenton) seeks energetic, experienced, and highly skilled youth development specialists to serve as full-time youth development program coordinators from September to June each school year at schools in either Washington, DC, or Montgomery County, MD.

Crittenton is a girl-led organization that is privileged to nurture and support more than 1,000 beautiful girls and young women each year. Because of the relationships we form with Crittenton girls, our work and workplace are always rewarding, frequently joyful, and sometimes challenging. We are proud of our richly diverse staff, program participants, and Board of Directors, and of the fact that equity and inclusion are at the core of everything we do.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Strong Relationships

Crittenton believes that strong relationships between program coordinators and the teen girls we serve is essential for our work as a positive youth development organization. Also important are relationships with participants’ parents and with the leaders and staff of the schools we serve.

Program coordinators must build and maintain the following:

• Caring, supportive, and challenging relationships with program participants that promote their healthy development
• Close working relationships with the assigned school contact that promote recruitment and retention, and support program participants
• Close working relationships with school administrators, nurses, counselors, teachers, and support staff to keep the school informed about program activities and build support for the program within the school
• Relationships with parents that support attendance and retention, address student and family needs, and promote parental support for their daughter’s education

Skilled Program Delivery and Facilitation

Program coordinators must:

• Maintain an emotional climate during weekly sessions that is predominantly safe and positive and provide program participants with opportunities to engage in active learning and actively share their ideas, experiences, and feedback
• Maintain regular communication with program participants outside of session time to address participants’ needs and ensure program engagement, attendance, completion, and retention
• Operationalize Crittenton’s “whole girl” approach by engaging with participants to identify their needs and refer participants and/or their families to services, including but not limited to mental health, medical care, benefits/social services, and academic support or tutoring

Scrupulous Administration

Program coordinators must:

• Recruit, register, and retain the target number of program participants for each program group within the established timelines
• Compile and submit accurate program records by the established deadlines
• Adhere to the approved program budget and procurement procedures

Required Qualifications and Core Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, Youth Development, Counseling, Public Health, Education, or other relevant fields
• Demonstrated ability to recruit participants and deliver programs for middle and high school girls in group settings
• Minimum two years of direct service experience with youth
• Demonstrated ability to deliver content on reproductive health, healthy relationships, and social and emotional skills
• Demonstrated ability to speak and write cogently

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in social work, Counseling, Public Health, Education, or other relevant fields
• Experience delivering positive youth development programs in the Greater Washington Area
• Experience in group management and conflict resolution

Other requirements:

• Access to reliable personal transportation
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office software
• Weekend or evening hours for field trips and/or Crittenton events
• Commitment to Crittenton’s organizational values related to racial equity, cultural competence, and responsiveness in program delivery, community relations, and staff development

Compensation

• $55,000 - $60,000 / Year

To apply:

Please send an email to jobs@crittentonservices.org with the following attachments:

• Your resume
• A cover letter that provides concrete examples of how your past experiences demonstrate that you have the required competencies for the position
• A brief, work-related writing sample

No phone calls, please

401(k), Health & Dental Insurance, Paid Time Off