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Now Hiring: Independent Living Skills Life Coach (Entry-Level)

Part-Time

Covering the Felton/Santa Cruz area in California Perks:

• $22 per hour

• Monday through Friday (day shift)

• Team support, training, solid career with growth and advancement opportunities

Make a Difference. Build a Career.

Are you someone who loves helping others, is patient, compassionate, and dependable, and wants a meaningful career? Join Spread Your Wings, LLC. – ILS Services as a Life Skills Mentor/Coach and support individuals with developmental disabilities in achieving greater independence and confidence in their daily lives. Requirements:

• Valid driver’s license, clean driving record, and reliable transportation

• Able to work and commute in and around the Felton/Santa Cruz area

• Able to pass a background check (per state industry standards)

• Computer literacy: MS Word, email, basic data entry

The Brotherhood Crusade Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer will engage with Youth enrolled in our YouthSource Center. The incumbent will be charged to train and provide a classroom setting where reinforcement of positive and appropriate behavior is practiced. This would include providing a curriculum that fosters creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and the ability to effectively communicate along with personal and social responsibility that will contribute to good citizenship.

1. Instruct beginning, intermediate, advanced and intensive job preparation and continuation classes using the Brotherhood Crusade Self Actualization, Jr. Executive Workforce Development Program, Power (Life) Skills for Vocational Success, Taking Financial Control, Ubuntu Experience, Accenture Skills to Succeed, and other approved curricula. These classes shall target Disconnected, Opportunity and otherwise disenfranchised 1424-year-old South Los Angeles County youth and young adults and are mandatory for program participants.

2. Develop beginning, intermediate, advanced and intensive job preparation and continuation curricula as appropriate. The classes shall include a mainstreaming component that simulates employer expectations in a real workforce setting such that the participants experience and are held accountable to these life lessons.

3. Execute formal agreements with and between the youth/young adult, their parent or guardian (as appropriate) and Brotherhood Crusade outlining the terms and conditions of program participation (including weekly attendance at the beginning, intermediate, advanced and intensive job preparation, life skills and entrepreneurship classes) and the roles and responsibilities of each concerned/interested party.

4. Develop and maintain database and statistics that directly relate to participant progress with respect to their learning goals and objectives as required by our funding partners and delineated in the Brotherhood Crusade Workforce Development Evaluation and Learning Protocol.

5. Maintain requisite records of youth and young adults as it relates to their instructional progress and matriculation through the learning objectives identified in their individual-specific youth development plan.

6. Develop, facilitate and provide pre-employment and post-employment workshops and professional development opportunities.

7. Create, develop and instruct curricula that addresses issues identified by the Job Placement Liaison or Job Developer such that the youth and young adults continue to develop and improve their workplace skills and behaviors and are well positioned to consistently exceed employer expectations.

8. Instruct the training curriculum of employment partners, as appropriate.

9. Prepare youth for entrepreneurial opportunities that may be presented by stakeholders, corporate or foundation partners.

10. Prepare and conduct training sessions for according to a prepared plan alternating entrepreneurship classes as required.

11. Specify relevant curriculum to specific age/level groups and provide relevant technical inputs to enter the job market.

12. Coach young people with developing viable micro-entrepreneurship ideas and help them develop an introductive business plan;

13. Collaborate and coordinate with other departments for participant referrals.

$70,000 - $80,000 a year. Salary is based on experience and qualifications.

Must possess a valid California Driver's License. Due to our in-person and in office work with LAUSD, City of LA, County of LA and other work partners that require our team to be vaccinated we require that all potential candidates must be COVID-19 vaccinated with either, Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson.

The successful candidate will be required to report to and work from the office complex at least five days a week. Offices are traditionally equipped with computers, telephones, desks, chairs, and office machines. Additionally, each office offers an instructional classroom from which orientations and trainings are conducted.

Benefits and salary will be negotiated based on experience, education, and the needs of the program.

This program is unique in that the successful candidate may be working with individuals who, heretofore, have never been exposed to the subject matter and, as such, may not readily adopt the precepts or methodologies. Moreover, these clients may exhibit stress-related emotions such as tension, frustration, and anger. The successful candidate must understand this phenomenon and possess a psychologically stable profile and a demeanor that minimizes the opportunity that these emotions will escalate to conflict.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to perform in this job.

Excellent full benefits package.

Must be available to work Monday/Tuesday/Thursday/Friday from 9:00am 5:30pm and Wednesday 12:00 pm - 8:30 pm. There may be occurrences when a work or community event occurs on Saturday and/or Sunday. Your work schedule will be flexed to accommodate this change and you will be notified in advance.