Youth Program Specialist (Personal Services)

Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization that funds job training, education, and other community programs by selling donated clothing and household items in Goodwill stores and online. We offer life-changing work on a mission-minded team. We are 1,000 working as one and each of us is essential to helping our community thrive. For three years running, Goodwill has been named to Forbes' list of America's “Most Inspiring Companies”.

We offer a wide range of career opportunities ranging from entry-level to management in retail, human services, and administrative fields. Learn more about working at Goodwill. You can help. We can show you how.

Youth Services:

We provide career development for youth, including: work readiness training, career exploration, certification attainment, and summer employment opportunities.

Youth Program Specialist :

The Youth Program Specialist will provide career exploration, job search, placement and retention program services and related training, in-house or community based, to adjudicated or at-risk youth by ensuring needs are met, goals are implemented, and a safe environment is maintained. The Youth Program Specialist is responsible for facilitating individual service plan development and is supporting participants in accessing the full menu of needed and available services to attain established goals.  This position's responsibilities includes but are not limited to assessing participants, helping to develop and document goals and goal plans, implementing goal plans, and monitoring goals and plans for modification and completion. Transporting participants or materials is required.  This position is a community based position.

Essential duties include, but are not limited to:

• Assessing participants, helping to develop and document goals and goal plans, implementing goal plans, and monitoring goals and plans for modification and completion.
• Transporting participants or materials is  required.
• Assess and identify participant's strengths, barriers and needs by collecting in depth information about a participant's situation and functioning
• Conduct on-going face to face meetings with participants to ensure quality service delivery and conduct progress reviews of goals in accordance with program/contract guidelines.
• Support participants in securing resources and/or services necessary to obtain and maintain employment.
• Develop an employment plan of action and related goals; assists individuals in applying for and obtaining other services related to meeting stated goals.
• Locate and develop job openings for placement of clients through personal visits to companies, telephone calls and other communication.

External hiring range: $18.25 - $18.98/hour

Travel required: Yes, local travel is required. 

Schedule: Monday - Friday (8:00am - 4:00pm) some evenings and weekends will be required. Schedule can vary depending on department needs. 

Qualifications: 

• • High school diploma or equivalent AND 5 years of experience required. OR 
  • Associates' degree AND 3 years of experience required. OR
  • Bachelors' degree AND 1 year of experience required.

• Required Degree(s): must be in Communication, Human Services, Education or Related field.

  Required Experience: must be related to working with low-income, at-risk, and/or adjudicated youth/young adults and/or experience with youth in foster care.

REQUIRED CLEARANCES, LICENSES, AND CERTIFICATIONS:

• Qualified candidates must have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation for local travel.
• Candidates are expected to provide current valid clearances (Child Abuse Clearance, FBI Fingerprints Clearance, and PATCH) prior to first day of employment.  

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Human Services