Day Reporting Support Staff - Behavioral Specialist
Full-time $18/hour
Ideal candidates will be high-energy, responsible, organized, and passionate about working with youth. Candidates should display patience, the ability to be flexible, have excellent behavior management skills, and the ability to make independent decisions and take initiative. Successful candidates will have Youth Work/Youth Development experience, and should be comfortable working with diverse, and system impacted youth and families. Candidates should possess knowledge on Indiana Systems of Care, knowledge on child abuse and neglect, child and adult development, and appropriate knowledge of community resources.
Duties and responsibilities
- Communicate student issues to Program Manager
- Assistance with coordination of transportation services for students, as needed
- Assist with daily supervision of program participants during academic
- enrichment activities, physical and recreational activities, field trip activities,
- and social emotional development activities
- Small group facilitation
- Attendance to Probation/DCS appointments and Court hearings as needed
- Maintain a positive, nurturing, and uplifting environment for all program participants
- Assist in record keeping, data collection, and student assessments
- Communication with parents and families of program participants
Qualifications
- • Minimum High School Diploma or equivalency
• 3 to 5 years’ experience working with youth and families
• Experience with person-centered planning approaches and positive behavioral supports preferred
• Valid driver’s license and vehicle is required.
• Possess good writing and oral skills to effectively communicate individuals’ needs and objectives as well as providing training and supervision to staff.
• CPR and First Aid Certifications are a condition of employment.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and meet deadlines
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
www.voicescorp.org
Since 2010, VOICES has co-created innovative programming with their youth and communities. VOICES is a Black led organization founded and ran by a local husband and wife duo with a desire to transform communities of color. All staff and board members are predominantly people of color and are from working-class and diverse backgrounds. Given their identities--as well as their personal, professional, and civic involvements, VOICES leadership has a profound, nuanced understanding of how systemic racism, generational poverty, and gaps in systems of support entrench the challenges their youth and families face. This understanding has led to new VOICES initiatives that aim to change the inequitable systems youth are engaged in, alongside supporting, and growing the youth themselves. VOICES believes that playing a role in systems-level change is the only way to achieve their long-term vision: bringing about the day when every Indianapolis child, family, and community has the tools, resources, and collective capacity they need to lead self-determined lives.