Youth WFD Young Adult Career Navigator

About the role

We work with youth/young adults who are historically and ongoingly impacted by systems of oppression towards achieving economic justice. The Career Navigator develops compassionate and respectful relationships with participants using a strength-based, goal-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Develops compassionate and respectful relationships with participants using a strength-based, goal-oriented approach.
• Outreach, case management, and support to young people aged 17-24 who are working towards their next steps in education, training, and employment.
• Support youth in exploring and achieving their short, medium-, and long-term goals to map a pathway for their futures.
• Work with youth to complete their High School Equivalency, attend training or college, develop internships, explore employment, and support youth to overcome barriers to those goals.
• Provide support for parenting and family, personal and life goals.
• Aid youth in resume and cover letter development, interview skills, and conduct job searches.
• Assist with administrative tasks including maintaining case notes, data entry, document collection, and ensuring that program standards are maintained.

Qualifications

• Interpersonal communication - verbal and written.
• Conflict resolution, problem-solving, establishing priorities, navigating change.
• Judgement and decision-making.
• Priced organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Openness to understanding participants as experts of their own varied experiences and identities.
• Skilled relationship building with participants, staff, and community members.
• An understanding and willingness to talk about issues using an approach that is positive, engaging, accessible, and inclusive, such as Positive Youth Development and harm reduction.
• A balance of initiative to work independently and collaboration to work with others.
• Understanding and willingness to learn data capture and tracking methods.
• Promote equity by deconstructing barriers to a racially just system.
• Cultivate work environments that value truth-telling, courage, vulnerability, space to think and reflect, community-mindedness, hope, And Openness To Difficult Conversations.
• Knowledge of social services, advocacy, and navigating resources.
• Experience working with marginalized communities and individuals with low incomes.
• Experience working with youth/young adults who have low incomes, are youth of color, queer, trans, disabled, and/or housing insecure.
• Experience with data management, data capture, tracking methods and analysis for outcome measurements.
• Computer skills (Microsoft Suite-Outlook Email, Calendar, and Teams chat, Discord, Zoom, and databases).

Skills

• Positive Youth Development and harm reduction.
• Data capture and tracking methods.
• Outcome measurements.