Co-Facilitator of Youth Advisory Board, Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice

The Co-Facilitator will support the planning, coordination, and facilitation of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB). This role will focus on meeting preparation, youth engagement, and logistical coordination to ensure a meaningful and well-organized experience for participants. The Co-Facilitator will work closely with the Community Restorative Justice Manager and the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission’s Youth Advisory Board.

Education/Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in youth leadership, community organizing, facilitation, or advocacy preferred.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed practices, youth engagement strategies, or restorative justice approaches is a plus.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience supporting youth-led initiatives and fostering youth leadership development.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage and facilitate discussions with young people and stakeholders.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to support meeting preparation, coordination, and follow-up.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with youth, colleagues, and external partners in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to consistently identify opportunities for improvement and make recommendations based on observations
• Strong demonstration of alignment with Adler’s social justice mission and vision
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and visioning acumen
• Ability to proactively identify challenges and barriers to stated objective and employ assistance in addressing these
• Strong collaboration acumen and abilities
• Demonstration of Emotional Intelligence and professional maturity
• Proficient and functional knowledge of MS Office (Work, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook)
• Strong research acumen and abilities
• Strong communication acumen including written, oral, and listening
  
  

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist in planning and facilitating twice-monthly virtual YAB meetings, ensuring engaging discussions and activities.
• Collaborate with the YAB Engagement Team to develop meeting agendas, training content, and materials.
• Help coordinate logistics for meetings and info-sessions, including scheduling, reminders, and materials distribution.
• Support the recruitment of system-involved youth and assist in hosting virtual information sessions.
• Maintain regular communication with YAB members and external partners, including the Juvenile Justice Commission.
• Assist in coordinating youth engagement with the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission Chairs (Youth Engagement, Compliance, Racial and Ethnic Disparities, Planning & Grants).
• Participate in monthly meetings with the Illinois Collaboration on Youth to ensure alignment with YAB objectives.
• Assist in tracking grant deliverables, gathering necessary data, and providing logistical support for grant reporting.
• Help develop and implement the 12-month learning community curriculum, ensuring sessions align with YAB goals.
• Provide general administrative and troubleshooting support to identify resource gaps and assist in budget planning.
  
  

Hours and Compensation:

Work Environment (Physical Demands): The usual and customary methods of performing the jobs functions require the following physical demands: some lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling and significant fine finger dexterity. Generally, the job requires 80% sitting, 10% walking, and 10% standing. This job is performed in a generally clean and healthy environment.

Universal Core Behaviors: ($30/hour) – approximately 10 hours per week

Communication:

• Effectively expresses oneself in all oral and written communications.
• Exhibits good listening and comprehension skills.
• Keeps others informed, as well as responds, in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates match between words and actions.
• Responds with tact, diplomacy, respect and composure when dealing with others.
• Promotes the spirit and essence of the School’s Vision, Mission, Values and Key Strategies through both verbal and written communication.
  
  

Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Cooperates with others toward the achievement of common goals.
• Seeks consensus and win-win solutions to problems and conflicts.
• Contributes actively and participates fully in team initiatives.
• Puts success of the team above own interests.
• Builds and maintains constructive work relationships.
  
  

Responsive to Change:

• Supports changes in the work environment.
• Displays a proactive, problem-solving approach toward work.
• Committed to life-long learning by continuously increasing skills, knowledge and effectiveness.
• Actively seeks and initiates creative and innovative solutions.
• Exercises sound, accurate and informed independent judgment when needed.
  
  

Quality-Driven and Accountable:

• Results-oriented and committed to quality through continuous process improvement.
• Eliminates ineffective activities and closes performance gaps.
• Anticipates and responds to customer needs.
• Monitors own performance, accept responsibility for actions and actively seeks feedback.
• Meets deadlines and completes projects and activities in professional, timely manner.
• Seeks opportunities to increase productivity and/or reduce costs while maintaining highest quality standards (fiscally responsible).
  
  

Support of Vision, Mission, Values, Key Strategies:

• Supports and models the School’s Values of: social interest, compassion, justice, respect for the individual, honors diversity and difference, intellectual rigor, optimism and collaboration.
• Articulates the School’s Vision, Mission, and Key Strategies in a way to educate others.
• Demonstrates active commitment in advancing the School’s Vision, Mission and Key Strategies.
• Exhibits personal integrity, honesty, zeal and compassion.
• Aligns work processes to advance the School’s strategic plan and key strategies.
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Adler University that all persons are entitled to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) protection. The University does not discriminate against any individual for employment because of age, religion, race, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status (including unfavorable discharge from the military), or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.