Chair, Youth Advisory Board & Adult Mentor (Volunteer)
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First, About Mentor A Promise description: "Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward."
That's about the organization. Could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we can include in About the role.
Then there is info about the role: "Chair, Youth Advisory Board & Adult Mentor (Volunteer) Executive Team | Youth Leadership, Mentorship, Voice & Organizational Influence Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP) Division Executive Team Board Youth Advisory Board Location Remote, with NYC-based collaboration and youth activities as needed Type Volunteer Leadership Role Commitment Approximately 5–10 hours per week Minimum Commitment 6 months Reports To Chief Executive Officer Leads & Supports Youth Advisory Board Works Closely With CEO, Executive Team, PromiseRise, PromisePrograms, PromiseLearning, PromisePublic, PromisePeople, PromiseShield, and other MAP leaders as appropriate"
Then sections: About Mentor A Promise (again), About The Youth Advisory Board, Role Overview, Youth Mentorship, Board Leadership & Facilitation, Develop Youth Leaders, Connection to the Executive Team, Youth Voice & Organizational Influence, Youth-Led Projects, Board Culture & Belonging, Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries, Privacy & Youth Dignity, Accessibility & Inclusion, Adult Responsibility, Recruitment & Board Development, Organizational Collaboration, Board Development & Continuity, Qualifications.
We need to consolidate into sections: About the role (maybe combine organization description and role overview), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe qualifications), Skills (maybe list of skills), Schedule (commitment hours and months). Benefits and Pay omitted.
We must not lose any substantive info. So we need to include details from each subsection under responsibilities.
Let's list responsibilities as bullet points:
- Develop trusted, appropriate mentoring relationships with Youth Advisory Board members.
- Help young people strengthen Leadership, Communication, Confidence, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Decision-making, Problem-solving, Facilitation, Public speaking, Professional skills, Self-advocacy.
- Recognize that young people will enter the Board with different personalities, abilities, experiences, and levels of confidence. The goal is not to produce one type of youth leader. It is to help each young person discover how they can lead.
- Provide the adult structure necessary for the Youth Advisory Board to operate effectively.
- Prepare meetings, develop agendas with youth members, facilitate discussions, coordinate follow-up, and ensure the Board remains purposeful and engaging.
- Meetings may follow Welcome → Connection → Youth Priorities → Discussion → Ideas → Recommendations → Commitments → Reflection → Next Steps.
- The Chair should know when to guide a conversation and when to allow young people to guide it themselves.
- A successful meeting is not one where the Chair speaks the most.
- Develop Youth Leaders: Create intentional opportunities for members to practice leadership.
- Support young people in Leading portions of meetings, Developing agenda topics, Facilitating discussions, Presenting recommendations, Interviewing organizational leaders, Developing projects, Conducting appropriate research, Working collaboratively, Speaking with executives, Taking responsibility for approved initiatives.
- The development pathway should increasingly move toward Adult Support → Guided Participation → Shared Leadership → Youth Leadership.
- The strongest Chair does not create followers. The strongest Chair develops other leaders.
- Connection to the Executive Team: Serve as the organizational bridge between the Youth Advisory Board and MAP's Executive Team.
- Help young people understand how MAP works, how decisions are made, who is responsible for different areas, and how recommendations can be presented effectively.
- Create appropriate opportunities for youth members to interact directly with the CEO, chiefs, directors, and other organizational leaders.
- Prepare young people for those conversations.
- Just as importantly, prepare adults to listen.
- Youth engagement should not require young people to perfectly adapt to adult spaces while adults make no effort to create spaces where young people can participate authentically.
- Youth Voice & Organizational Influence: Help youth transform experiences, observations, and ideas into thoughtful recommendations.
- Use a process such as Experience → Question → Discussion → Perspectives → Possible Solutions → Recommendation → Leadership Review → Response → Follow-Up.
- Ensure recommendations reach the appropriate organizational leaders.
- Then close the loop. Young people deserve to know what happened after they contributed their ideas.
- MAP may not implement every recommendation, but youth should receive an appropriate response explaining what was considered and what happens next.
- Youth-Led Projects: Mentor Board members in developing appropriate youth-led projects.
- Projects may include Youth forums, Leadership initiatives, Creative projects, Publications, Community activities, Youth surveys, Program recommendations, Educational initiatives, Career-focused activities, Organizational improvement ideas, Other approved youth-led projects.
- The Chair provides guidance, resources, structure, and safeguards without unnecessarily taking ownership away from young people.
- The Board should not exist only to advise. Young people should also have opportunities to create.
- Board Culture & Belonging: Create an environment where members feel respected, welcomed, challenged, and supported.
- Encourage disagreement without disrespect.
- Make room for different communication styles and personalities.
- Ensure leadership opportunities do not automatically go to the most confident or outspoken members.
- Some young people lead from the front. Others lead by asking the question nobody else considered. Both matter.
- Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries: Maintain strong adult-youth boundaries and follow all MAP safeguarding requirements.
- Because this position involves direct engagement with minors, the Chair carries significant responsibility for creating a safe and appropriate environment.
- The Chair must follow MAP requirements regarding authorized communication, supervision, confidentiality, privacy, appropriate interactions, reporting, and youth protection.
- The Chair is a mentor and facilitator. The Chair is not a therapist, investigator, caseworker, disciplinarian, or substitute parent.
- Any concern involving youth safety, abuse, harassment, inappropriate conduct, or another safeguarding matter must be escalated through MAP's established procedures.
- The Chair should never investigate a disclosure independently.
- When youth safety is involved, uncertainty should be escalated rather than improvised.
- Privacy & Youth Dignity: Protect the privacy and dignity of every Board member.
- Young people should never be required to disclose housing circumstances, trauma, family situations, disability, health information, or other personal experiences to earn a place in the conversation.
- A young person's lived experience may inform their perspective. It is not something they owe the organization.
- Accessibility & Inclusion: Work with MAP's Disability Justice & Accessibility leadership and other appropriate teams to help ensure Youth Advisory Board participation is accessible.
- Consider barriers involving communication, meeting formats, technology, materials, sensory environments, learning differences, and other participation needs.
- Accessibility should not be treated as something added after a young person encounters a barrier.
- Adult Responsibility: Maintain a clear boundary between youth influence and adult organizational responsibility.
- Adults remain responsible for adult responsibilities.
- Youth members should not carry inappropriate responsibility for organizational finances, personnel decisions, legal matters, safeguarding investigations, confidential organizational information, or fiduciary governance.
- Meaningful youth leadership does not require transferring adult burdens onto young people.
- Recruitment & Board Development: Help build and sustain a strong Youth Advisory Board.
- Support recruitment and onboarding of members while seeking a range of perspectives, strengths, interests, ages, and leadership styles.
- Help new members understand the Board's purpose and feel welcomed into the group.
- Identify emerging youth leaders and create opportunities for them to assume increasing responsibility.
- The Board should become stronger as new leaders emerge.
- Organizational Collaboration: Partner with appropriate MAP divisions to connect Youth Advisory Board members with meaningful organizational opportunities.
- This may include collaboration with PromiseRise around leadership and career development, PromisePrograms around youth experience, PromiseLearning around education, PromisePublic around accessibility and appropriate civic engagement, and other teams when youth perspectives can meaningfully contribute.
- The Youth Advisory Board should have access to the organization—not become isolated from it.
- Board Development & Continuity: Help establish structures that allow the Youth Advisory Board to continue beyond any individual Chair or group of members.
- Maintain appropriate agendas, recommendations, action items, project records, leadership transitions, and institutional knowledge.
- Build traditions and systems that future youth members can inherit and improve.
- The goal is not simply to run meetings. It is to build an enduring youth leadership institution within MAP.
Qualifications: "Strong candidates may bring experience in youth development, mentorship, education, coaching, nonprofit programming, leadership development, facilitation, youth advisory councils, community engagement, or related youth-serving work. Candidates should demons" (cut off). We have incomplete sentence; but we must preserve what is there. Probably "demonstrate" something. We'll include as is.
Skills: Could list skills mentioned: mentorship, facilitation, leadership, communication, conflict resolution, organization, etc. But we should not invent. Better to extract from responsibilities: mentorship, facilitation, leadership, communication, organization, project management, etc. However we risk adding interpretation. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we can list skills that are explicitly mentioned. Let's see explicit skill mentions: Leadership, Communication, Confidence, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Decision-making, Problem-solving, Facilitation, Public speaking, Professional skills, Self-advocacy. Also mentoring, guiding, facilitating, supporting, preparing meetings, developing agendas, coordinating follow-up, etc. Also "develop agendas with youth members", "facilitate discussions", "coordinate follow-up". Also "develop Youth Leaders", "support young people in leading portions of meetings", "developing agenda topics", "facilitating discussions", "presenting recommendations", "interviewing organizational leaders", "developing projects", "conducting appropriate
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not omit details. So we need to include all details from the posting that are relevant. We need to be careful not to include boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting seems not to have that. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content. First, About Mentor A Promise description: "Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward." That's about the organization. Could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we can include in About the role. Then there is info about the role: "Chair, Youth Advisory Board & Adult Mentor (Volunteer) Executive Team | Youth Leadership, Mentorship, Voice & Organizational Influence Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP) Division Executive Team Board Youth Advisory Board Location Remote, with NYC-based collaboration and youth activities as needed Type Volunteer Leadership Role Commitment Approximately 5–10 hours per week Minimum Commitment 6 months Reports To Chief Executive Officer Leads & Supports Youth Advisory Board Works Closely With CEO, Executive Team, PromiseRise, PromisePrograms, PromiseLearning, PromisePublic, PromisePeople, PromiseShield, and other MAP leaders as appropriate" Then sections: About Mentor A Promise (again), About The Youth Advisory Board, Role Overview, Youth Mentorship, Board Leadership & Facilitation, Develop Youth Leaders, Connection to the Executive Team, Youth Voice & Organizational Influence, Youth-Led Projects, Board Culture & Belonging, Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries, Privacy & Youth Dignity, Accessibility & Inclusion, Adult Responsibility, Recruitment & Board Development, Organizational Collaboration, Board Development & Continuity, Qualifications. We need to consolidate into sections: About the role (maybe combine organization description and role overview), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe qualifications), Skills (maybe list of skills), Schedule (commitment hours and months). Benefits and Pay omitted. We must not lose any substantive info. So we need to include details from each subsection under responsibilities. Let's list responsibilities as bullet points: - Develop trusted, appropriate mentoring relationships with Youth Advisory Board members. - Help young people strengthen Leadership, Communication, Confidence, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Decision-making, Problem-solving, Facilitation, Public speaking, Professional skills, Self-advocacy. - Recognize that young people will enter the Board with different personalities, abilities, experiences, and levels of confidence. The goal is not to produce one type of youth leader. It is to help each young person discover how they can lead. - Provide the adult structure necessary for the Youth Advisory Board to operate effectively. - Prepare meetings, develop agendas with youth members, facilitate discussions, coordinate follow-up, and ensure the Board remains purposeful and engaging. - Meetings may follow Welcome → Connection → Youth Priorities → Discussion → Ideas → Recommendations → Commitments → Reflection → Next Steps. - The Chair should know when to guide a conversation and when to allow young people to guide it themselves. - A successful meeting is not one where the Chair speaks the most. - Develop Youth Leaders: Create intentional opportunities for members to practice leadership. - Support young people in Leading portions of meetings, Developing agenda topics, Facilitating discussions, Presenting recommendations, Interviewing organizational leaders, Developing projects, Conducting appropriate research, Working collaboratively, Speaking with executives, Taking responsibility for approved initiatives. - The development pathway should increasingly move toward Adult Support → Guided Participation → Shared Leadership → Youth Leadership. - The strongest Chair does not create followers. The strongest Chair develops other leaders. - Connection to the Executive Team: Serve as the organizational bridge between the Youth Advisory Board and MAP's Executive Team. - Help young people understand how MAP works, how decisions are made, who is responsible for different areas, and how recommendations can be presented effectively. - Create appropriate opportunities for youth members to interact directly with the CEO, chiefs, directors, and other organizational leaders. - Prepare young people for those conversations. - Just as importantly, prepare adults to listen. - Youth engagement should not require young people to perfectly adapt to adult spaces while adults make no effort to create spaces where young people can participate authentically. - Youth Voice & Organizational Influence: Help youth transform experiences, observations, and ideas into thoughtful recommendations. - Use a process such as Experience → Question → Discussion → Perspectives → Possible Solutions → Recommendation → Leadership Review → Response → Follow-Up. - Ensure recommendations reach the appropriate organizational leaders. - Then close the loop. Young people deserve to know what happened after they contributed their ideas. - MAP may not implement every recommendation, but youth should receive an appropriate response explaining what was considered and what happens next. - Youth-Led Projects: Mentor Board members in developing appropriate youth-led projects. - Projects may include Youth forums, Leadership initiatives, Creative projects, Publications, Community activities, Youth surveys, Program recommendations, Educational initiatives, Career-focused activities, Organizational improvement ideas, Other approved youth-led projects. - The Chair provides guidance, resources, structure, and safeguards without unnecessarily taking ownership away from young people. - The Board should not exist only to advise. Young people should also have opportunities to create. - Board Culture & Belonging: Create an environment where members feel respected, welcomed, challenged, and supported. - Encourage disagreement without disrespect. - Make room for different communication styles and personalities. - Ensure leadership opportunities do not automatically go to the most confident or outspoken members. - Some young people lead from the front. Others lead by asking the question nobody else considered. Both matter. - Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries: Maintain strong adult-youth boundaries and follow all MAP safeguarding requirements. - Because this position involves direct engagement with minors, the Chair carries significant responsibility for creating a safe and appropriate environment. - The Chair must follow MAP requirements regarding authorized communication, supervision, confidentiality, privacy, appropriate interactions, reporting, and youth protection. - The Chair is a mentor and facilitator. The Chair is not a therapist, investigator, caseworker, disciplinarian, or substitute parent. - Any concern involving youth safety, abuse, harassment, inappropriate conduct, or another safeguarding matter must be escalated through MAP's established procedures. - The Chair should never investigate a disclosure independently. - When youth safety is involved, uncertainty should be escalated rather than improvised. - Privacy & Youth Dignity: Protect the privacy and dignity of every Board member. - Young people should never be required to disclose housing circumstances, trauma, family situations, disability, health information, or other personal experiences to earn a place in the conversation. - A young person's lived experience may inform their perspective. It is not something they owe the organization. - Accessibility & Inclusion: Work with MAP's Disability Justice & Accessibility leadership and other appropriate teams to help ensure Youth Advisory Board participation is accessible. - Consider barriers involving communication, meeting formats, technology, materials, sensory environments, learning differences, and other participation needs. - Accessibility should not be treated as something added after a young person encounters a barrier. - Adult Responsibility: Maintain a clear boundary between youth influence and adult organizational responsibility. - Adults remain responsible for adult responsibilities. - Youth members should not carry inappropriate responsibility for organizational finances, personnel decisions, legal matters, safeguarding investigations, confidential organizational information, or fiduciary governance. - Meaningful youth leadership does not require transferring adult burdens onto young people. - Recruitment & Board Development: Help build and sustain a strong Youth Advisory Board. - Support recruitment and onboarding of members while seeking a range of perspectives, strengths, interests, ages, and leadership styles. - Help new members understand the Board's purpose and feel welcomed into the group. - Identify emerging youth leaders and create opportunities for them to assume increasing responsibility. - The Board should become stronger as new leaders emerge. - Organizational Collaboration: Partner with appropriate MAP divisions to connect Youth Advisory Board members with meaningful organizational opportunities. - This may include collaboration with PromiseRise around leadership and career development, PromisePrograms around youth experience, PromiseLearning around education, PromisePublic around accessibility and appropriate civic engagement, and other teams when youth perspectives can meaningfully contribute. - The Youth Advisory Board should have access to the organization—not become isolated from it. - Board Development & Continuity: Help establish structures that allow the Youth Advisory Board to continue beyond any individual Chair or group of members. - Maintain appropriate agendas, recommendations, action items, project records, leadership transitions, and institutional knowledge. - Build traditions and systems that future youth members can inherit and improve. - The goal is not simply to run meetings. It is to build an enduring youth leadership institution within MAP. Qualifications: "Strong candidates may bring experience in youth development, mentorship, education, coaching, nonprofit programming, leadership development, facilitation, youth advisory councils, community engagement, or related youth-serving work. Candidates should demons" (cut off). We have incomplete sentence; but we must preserve what is there. Probably "demonstrate" something. We'll include as is. Skills: Could list skills mentioned: mentorship, facilitation, leadership, communication, conflict resolution, organization, etc. But we should not invent. Better to extract from responsibilities: mentorship, facilitation, leadership, communication, organization, project management, etc. However we risk adding interpretation. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we can list skills that are explicitly mentioned. Let's see explicit skill mentions: Leadership, Communication, Confidence, Critical thinking, Collaboration, Decision-making, Problem-solving, Facilitation, Public speaking, Professional skills, Self-advocacy. Also mentoring, guiding, facilitating, supporting, preparing meetings, developing agendas, coordinating follow-up, etc. Also "develop agendas with youth members", "facilitate discussions", "coordinate follow-up". Also "develop Youth Leaders", "support young people in leading portions of meetings", "developing agenda topics", "facilitating discussions", "presenting recommendations", "interviewing organizational leaders", "developing projects", "conducting appropriate