Youth Well-Being Enrichment Specialist

Description

Youth Well-Being Enrichment Specialist

Join our team at FSS and enjoy comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Tuition Reimbursement: Earn up to $5,250 per qualifying year to invest in your education.
• Health Insurance: Choose from four comprehensive Florida Blue health insurance plans to keep you and your family covered.
• Dental Plan: Enjoy an employer-paid dental plan for our valued employees.
• Life Insurance: Your peace of mind matters to us. We provide employer-paid life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): a free, confidential resource, available to assist employees and their families in dealing with life’s challenges, and the demands of work/life balance.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Relax and recharge with our generous PTO plan.
• Paid Holidays: Enjoy the 12 holidays (to include 1 floating holiday) and unwind with family and friends to celebrate and rejuvenate!
• Well-Being Program: Stay healthy and engaged with our highly interactive well-being program.  Employees can earn three additional PTO days per plan year by simply participating.
• 401k Plan: Secure your financial future with our 401k plan with employer contribution of 3%.
• Additional Benefits: Explore our range of benefits, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Vision Plan, Short & Long-Term Disability coverage, Employee Discounts, and more.

The mission of Family Support Services is to be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.

Job Summary

Providing teens with extracurricular and “normalcy” experiences is about giving them age-appropriate freedom and responsibility. Most youth need to practice the skills they need for adulthood to truly master them. Foster youth—like all children—also deserve opportunities to participate in community and school activities that they enjoy.

This position will support the Youth Well-Being initiative by working collaboratively with foster parents, group home providers, foster care services providers (CMOs), and other community providers to develop and maintain FSS’s youth enrichment programs and the youth advisory board. The position is also responsible for the recruitment and coordination of volunteers for these programs as well as design and logistics.  The position will connect youth to positive adults and be the point of contact to support mentor relationships. This position will be responsible for ensuring that young adults acquire essential informal life skills through meaningful participation in the organization's enrichment programs. Additionally, this role will oversee any grant funding associated with these programs, including managing documentation, tracking grant expenditures, ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, and meeting all grant deadlines. This position is also responsible for designing and implementing programs that promote financial literacy and career readiness for young adults. This includes developing curriculum, coordinating workshops and training sessions, collaborating with community partners, and ensuring that the programs effectively equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary for financial independence and career success.

Essential Job Duties

• Manages, coordinates and tracks the FSS teen enrichment programs for Circuits 4 and 6 such as the Challenge, SPLASH, Just Like Me, keys to independence and others as determined by FSS. Evaluate the effectiveness of the programs, the need, budgets and ROI.  Work collaboratively with CMO services, Community Development and other FSS departments to secure participants and tracking of the programs.  This includes securing volunteers as appropriate and as needed.
• Creation and implementation of the youth advisory board, for Circuits 4 and 6, to include tracking, monitoring, hosting meetings, agendas, support groups, trainings etc.
• Design and implementation of programs that promote financial literacy and career readiness for young adults. This includes developing curriculum, coordinating workshops and training sessions, collaborating with community partners, and ensuring that program offerings effectively equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary for financial independence and career success.
• Oversight of any grant funding associated with these programs, including managing documentation, tracking grant expenditures, ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, and meeting all grant deadlines
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in one or more of the following: community engagement, managing programs, volunteer management or event coordination.
• Valid driver’s license.

Schedule & Hours

Flexible Schedule Monday-Friday typically 8:30am-5pm

Qualifications

Salary : $5,250