Senior Lead, Youth Mental Health Advocate

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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: - About the role? The posting includes description of Academy, YMHA program, role description. Could be "About the role" or maybe "Position Summary". We'll use "About the role". - Responsibilities: The "Position Duties And Responsibilities" section with subparts: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Delivery, CBO engagement and support, YMHA Care Coordination, Other duties as assigned. We'll list as

• items. - Requirements/Qualifications: The "Qualifications" section includes Minimum Qualifications and Preferred Expertise. We'll combine into Requirements or Qualifications. Use

  for Qualifications. - Skills: Not explicitly listed separate; but qualifications include skills. Could embed within Qualifications. Since we need to include a section only when posting has real specific content. There's no separate Skills section, so we omit. - Benefits, Pay, Schedule: The posting mentions schedule: "Role This is a near full-time hybrid role with some scheduling flexibility... Starting in Fall 2026, the Senior Lead will work between 39-68 hours every two weeks..." Also mentions phases with hours per week. That's schedule info. So we can include a Schedule section. Pay: not mentioned. Benefits: not mentioned. So we omit Benefits and Pay. We also might include "About the role" summarizing the program description. Must preserve all substantive info; we should not invent or summarize away detail. We need to keep details but can condense into prose

  but must not lose info. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we can paraphrase but must keep substance. It's okay to rephrase but not omit specifics. We'll need to include details like program description, YMHA pilot, etc. Let's craft sections:

  About the role

  ... description of RFCUNY, Academy for Community Behavioral Health, YMHA program, role as YMHA Senior Lead, reporting to Academy Director, near full-time hybrid role, schedule details.

  But we also have schedule details; maybe better to put schedule in its own section. So About the role can include role purpose, reporting, location, etc. Schedule section will have the hours details. Responsibilities: list bullet points summarizing each duty. Qualifications: list bullet points for minimum qualifications and preferred expertise. We must not repeat job title as heading. Let's extract specifics: About the role: - RFCUNY team dedicated professionals. - Academy for Community Behavioral Health equips NYC non-profit care providers to address behavioral health. - Launched Spring 2021 with support from Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity and Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. - Prioritizes capacity building with NYC communities most impacted by health and socioeconomic inequities, including those most impacted by COVID-19. - Academy services: free learning programs for NYC non-profit social service and behavioral health providers; pilot programs using participatory methods to advance community-centered care models and expand knowledge about what works; and more. - In 2023, Academy launched Youth Mental Health Advocate (YMHA) pilot program as part of Working the Gap, initiative of CUNY SPS Youth Studies providing young people ages 18-24 not enrolled in college with applied skills training, part-time work experience, college credits, and support to take next step in education or career. - YMHA provides path to helping professions for young people without college degrees but desire to make difference in youth mental health, with connection to youth-serving organization and shared experiences. - Youth Advocates receive over 100 hours of training and coaching from Academy. - They work part-time in a community-based organization (CBO) where they apply skills to: care for own mental health, model and share self-care tools, provide 1:1 mental health support and referrals to other youth, develop and facilitate groups. - They also use participatory action research skills to carry out a community project that can improve youth mental health or services at the CBO. - YMHA Senior Lead will play key leadership role in design and implementation of YMHA program in pilot years 3-4. - Reporting to Academy Director and joining multidisciplinary YMHA team. - Guide YMHA curriculum development and delivery, including managing work of supporting instructors, and provide implementation support to host organizations. - Based on relevant expertise, may also oversee coordination and delivery of specialized supports for YMHAs. - Candidates will have significant subject matter expertise and experience in related areas: youth mental health and development; instructional design with prior experience managing collaborative processes to map, create, test, refine related curriculum; mental health capacity building in community settings; care coordination for young people ages 18-24. - Role is near full-time hybrid with some scheduling flexibility; involves significant in-person work including in-person training, site visits, program meetings. - Starting Fall 2026, Senior Lead will work between 39-68 hours every two weeks, with some project phases requiring more work than others: - Sep-Dec 2026: Curriculum and program development. Expected hybrid remote/in-person work. - Jan-Feb 2027: In-person orientation and training for YMHAs and host CBOs. Expected to require 25-30 hours/week of in-person work. - Mar-Jun 2027: Ongoing training, coaching, and implementation support to YMHAs and CBOs; ongoing program management activities. Expect hybrid remote/in-person work. Responsibilities (from Position Duties And Responsibilities): Curriculum Development: - YMHA curriculum includes: (1) General preparation for work in a professional helping role; (2) Skills and supports for YMHAs to care for their own mental health; (3) Skills YMHAs use to support youth mental health among “near peers” ages 10-18. - Lead YMHA curriculum improvements: update curriculum goals, content, teaching methods, assessment tools to improve learner experience and outcomes. - Consult with YMHA team to confirm curriculum goals and priorities. - In consultation with Director, manage collaborative process to achieve curriculum goals and priorities, including: incorporating lessons from pilot implementation; inviting and integrating expertise from other instructors, subject matter experts, program stakeholders; creating and reviewing content; applying relevant evidence. - Ensure curriculum meets Academy values and standards: dual focus on well-being and skillfulness of helpers; competency-based learning; progressive experiential learning paths with skill practice, application, reflection, supportive accurate feedback; participatory design and ongoing quality improvement. - Ensure curriculum meets CUNY SPS criteria to award credit for prior learning. - Prepare materials required for CUNY SPS review. - Implement strengths-based learning assessment practices. - Oversee collection and maintenance of key data, including attendance and learning assessment. - Lead development of CBO curriculum that equips CBOs to effectively host and support YMHAs, integrating relevant subject matter expertise and input from Academy team members. - In FY27, focus on: learning network activities to help CBOs prepare for and support key YMHA activities; CBO supervision of YMHAs. - Manage curriculum development timelines and workflows. - Make real-time curriculum updates based on ongoing quality improvement and participatory design activities, as needed. - Contribute to development and implementation of YMHA evaluation framework and tools, led by YMHA Senior Advisor. - Produce final YMHA and CBO curricula. Curriculum Delivery: - Serve as Lead Instructor for YMHA and CBO curricula. - Facilitate in-person and virtual training, coaching, implementation support sessions in line with Academy standards and values, independently or with co-facilitators. - Coordinate contributions of other Instructors. - Lead YMHA instructor team. - Support instructors to prepare for and deliver training, coaching, implementation support. - Participate in selection and onboarding of instructors, where needed. - Monitor quality of instruction across YMHA program and facilitate ongoing quality improvement activities. CBO engagement and support: - In collaboration with YMHA team and building on prior implementation lessons, develop structure for ongoing CBO engagement and support in Pilot Years 3-4. This may include CBO selection; preparation to host YMHAs; training, coaching, or learning network activities for CBOs; ongoing monitoring and quality improvement. - Facilitate multidirectional learning and capacity building across CBOs: - Lead YMHA team in maintaining frequent, open, supportive communication with CBOs (scheduled and ad hoc communications in 1:1 and group settings). - Invite and respond to CBO ideas, questions, concerns. - Guide CBOs to implement YMHA in line with Academy standards and relevant best practices. - Promote shared learning and support across CBOs. - Develop and lead agendas and activities for 1:1 and group CBO sessions. - Manage implementation of CBO site visits. - Contribute to development of site visit protocols and rubrics; lead YMHA team in applying them. - Oversee collection and maintenance of site visit data. - Identify items for immediate, short-term, medium-term, long-term action; develop and manage workplans to address key items, based on available resources and program priorities. - Coordinate technical assistance and follow-up with CBOs to: address program challenges or concerns, strengthen YMHA implementation, celebrate and share successes and lessons across YMHA network. - Designate a “program lead” on Academy’s YMHA team for each CBO; act as program lead for a subset of 3-6 CBOs. YMHA Care Coordination (contingent on relevant prior experience): - Oversee delivery of specialized supports that Academy provides or coordinates for YMHAs, including: - Assessment, support, and referral to address YMHA needs. - Routine and ad hoc 1:1 YMHA check-ins with dedicated Academy team members. - Psychoeducation to help YMHAs understand and access relevant supports for their wellness. - Contracted services with external specialists, such as for college and career advising, college admissions assistance, or job placement. - CBO supports for YMHAs. - Other external referrals. - Develop Academy’s approach to care coordination, including internal protocols and tools. - Coordinate with Director to assign responsibilities across YMHA instructors and YMHA Program Manager. - Oversee data collection, monitoring, and ongoing implementation of care coordination activities. - Facilitate routine care coordination meetings. - Troubleshoot challenges/ensure appropriate follow-up. - Ensure accurate and up to date records of key data, consistent with Academy protocols. - Other duties as assigned. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications: - Advanced degree in a related field. - Licensed to independently provide clinical mental health care in New York State (e.g., Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, LCSW, LMHC, ATR-BC/LCAT). - Advanced knowledge of youth mental health, such as through: - A record of advanced and continued learning in one or more relevant focus areas. - Contributions to knowledge or practice in the field. - Experience delivering evidence-supported mental health care to youth ages 10-24; experience managing delivery of care in community settings a plus. - A record of successfully creating or leading learning and capacity-building program(s) in youth mental health. - Advanced knowledge of instructional design and curriculum development. - Experience leading a collaborative curriculum development cycle (planning, development, testing, implementation, evaluation, and improvement). - Experience defining and measuring learning progress and outcomes. - At least 8 years’ experience teaching others to develop and apply relevant intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. - Experience providing training, coaching, and implementation support, in-person and online. - Experience teaching young adults (18-24) and adults. - Experience training and coaching other trainers/f