What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Development Specialist position at Milton Hershey School?
Job Title: Youth Development Specialist
The Milton Hershey School is seeking a married couple to serve as flex houseparents. This role involves guiding and nurturing a group of 8-12 students from disadvantaged backgrounds, providing a consistent family-like structure and handling responsibilities such as driving, administering medication, budgeting, and reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
Benefits:
Qualifications:
About the School:
The Milton Hershey School is one of the world's best private schools, where students in pre-K through 12th grade from disadvantaged backgrounds receive an exceptional career-focused education with housing, meals, and more—all costs are covered. Thanks to the generosity of Milton and Catherine Hershey, who founded the school in 1909, the school is fully endowed and has the resources to ensure both students and staff are provided everything they need to thrive.
The Milton Hershey School is seeking a married couple to serve as flex houseparents. This role involves guiding and nurturing a group of 8-12 students from disadvantaged backgrounds, providing a consistent family-like structure and handling responsibilities such as driving, administering medication, budgeting, and reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing a family-like environment for students
- Overseeing daily activities and offering support in education and life skills
- Providing guidance and nurturing to students
Benefits:
- Competitive salary of $43,825 per person (total compensation package of approx. $150,000 per couple)
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings and flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability options; retirement savings
- Relocation assistance and paid training provided
- Schedule of nine days on followed by three days off
- Three-week paid summer vacation
Qualifications:
- Experience working or volunteering with youth, preferably from under-served settings
- This is a two-person job for couples who have been legally married for at least two years
- Both spouses should be age 27 or older
- No more than three dependent children may reside in the student home
- Valid driver's license; ability to become certified to drive student home vans
- Couples must be comfortable leading students in daily devotions and take students to Judeo-Christian Sunday chapel services
- High school diploma or GED required
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Candidates must demonstrate a high degree of integrity as all staff are role models for students.
About the School:
The Milton Hershey School is one of the world's best private schools, where students in pre-K through 12th grade from disadvantaged backgrounds receive an exceptional career-focused education with housing, meals, and more—all costs are covered. Thanks to the generosity of Milton and Catherine Hershey, who founded the school in 1909, the school is fully endowed and has the resources to ensure both students and staff are provided everything they need to thrive.
Salary : $43,825
