Curriculum Specialist

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

Position Summary**:** The BTA Curriculum Specialist is responsible for providing support and consultant for 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 while reporting to BTA Senior Curriculum Specialist.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides BAM Counselors with 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
• Participates in ongoing staff development, as needed, to stay current with ongoing program area trends and/or to keep professional credentials updated
• Assures the agency’s core values and key concepts are interwoven into program design and implementation, as allowed by program stakeholders
• Provides ongoing BAM curriculum development and revision when required
• Provides clinical training to assigned BAM cohort
• Serves as co-leader for BAM cohort training and lead trainer as needed
• Ensure the continued implementation and execution of the BAM program by filling in for the Counselor role during vacancies as needed
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Experience/Training

• Master’s Degree required in social work, human services or counseling related to area or currently enrolled in a master’s degree programs at an accredited university program required or High School Diploma with a minimum of 10 years of Mankind Project, Victories of the Heart, or Inward Journey experience and certification
• Five years of work experience in education, human service, youth development, or social service field
• Experience in administration and program development is preferred
• Three years working as BAM Counselor preferred

Skills/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 meetings.
• Demonstrated strong coaching and leadership 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 BAM program/curriculum competence and expertise
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

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.
• Occasional local and national travel

DEIB Statement

At Youth Guidance, we understand that diversity, equity, inclusion and Belonging (DEI&B) are fundamental to realizing our vision of bright and successful futures for all young people. We celebrate the diversity of youth and staff 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 and staff are inequitable and unjust.

As such, we are committed to advancing DEIB 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, staff, and communities are impacted by, such as schools, organizational networks, governmental bodies, researchers, and the funding community, to apply approaches that embrace DEIB in addressing the needs and supporting the aspirations of young people and those around them.

Youth Guidance is an equal opportunity employer and proudly values diversity, equity, inclusivity, and belonging. Youth Guidance does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity along all of these lines. People of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Keywords

Curriculum SpecialistBAM CounselorsCoachingProgram DevelopmentTrainingProfessional DevelopmentCurriculum ImplementationLeadership SkillsCommunication SkillsMicrosoft OfficeEquity Mindset