Job description: The Educational Specialist will establish the framework of positive youth development and career pathways and positive guidance to staff members for the OST program. Responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:
Duties and Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify learning needs and facilitates learning process, including development, delivery, implementation and evaluation of contextualized HSE
- Plan and design curricula from education program, researches and defines educational goals, objectives and methodologies to meet program goals
- Assist with developing an Individual Service Strategy(ISS) and developing educational career-related goals collaboratively with participants based on motivational interviewing process
- In conjunction with Program Director develop and participate in high quality, relevant staff training
- Provide positive guidance, discipline, mentoring and role modeling to staff members and youth served
- Support and work with program participants in career pathways
- Provide supportive services, recommend interventions when appropriate and make educational referrals to other services when needed
- Monitor attendance at Fedcap services and at offsite programming
- Assist coordination of workshops to be offered to program participants
- Handle data entry responsibilities, including outcomes reporting
- Provide follow up services for program graduates
- Participate in regularly scheduled supervision and ongoing training
- Provide weekly reports to Program Director
- Perform other duties as required
- A minimum of bachelor’s degree in Education or related field required. Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience in curriculum planning, development and Writing
- Demonstrated ability to identify needs analyze and logically organize complex information and transform that into professionally designed, engaging and effective training materials
- Experience working with youth and young adults, including three years of experience with court involved youth and young adults within the last five years
- Ability to manage and facilitate educational programs
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent presentation, Writing and interpersonal communication skills
- Bilingual in Spanish preferred
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