Crew Supervisor​/Pre-Voc Instructor

Roca Transitional Employment Crew Supervisor

Roca is an internationally recognized violence intervention and behavioral health program that works with the young people most likely to shoot or be shot. Founded in 1988 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Roca now serves nearly 2,000 of the highest-risk young people each year across seven sites in Massachusetts, Baltimore (MD), and Hartford (CT).

Roca's work is grounded in Rewire CBT, a breakthrough adaptation of cognitive behavioral therapy designed for young people living with trauma, disconnected from traditional services, and involved in/impacted by violence. Through relentless outreach, long-term relationships, and skill-building, Roca helps youth move from reacting to choosing, from surviving to living.

Meanwhile, the Roca Impact Institute extends this reach nationally. Launched in 2020, the Institute trains community violence intervention staff, criminal justice agencies, and police officers in Rewire CBT, building trauma-informed practices and systems change across the country. To date, the Institute has trained more than 10,000 staff across 75 organizations in 17 states and D.C.

This position will report to the Assistant Director of Programming and Employment. Roca has created numerous strategies to help our young people gain both soft and hard skills that can help prepare them for work. Transitional Employment provides participants the opportunity to work on a real work crew, run by a Roca Crew Supervisor, to learn and practice the skills necessary to be successful
-Vocational trainings offer participants an opportunity to learn technical skills that can help them build competency and earn certificates that may help them in job searches.

When supervising a work crew, the Crew Supervisor is responsible for supporting, coordinating, and supervising transitional employment participants on the work site and managing the site contract work. The TECS is responsible for ensuring all young people are in program compliance while ensuring the work is completed for the contract. TECS's model and teach soft skills related to employment and provide off site supervision and retention support for young people placed in transitional employment.

As part of this work, the TECS serves as a working crew member on all work assignments, modeling and teaching work behavior while working and delivering on contract obligations.

When teaching, the Pre-Vocational Instructor will run pre-vocational training classes with an agreed upon series of curriculums for one time to multiple session workshops and classes will be used to engage young people and increase their skills. Vocational training areas include but are not limited to: maintenance, cleaning, painting, basic construction (framing, locks, apartment turn over, etc.…), landscaping, OSHA, and Forklift.

In addition to classroom based programming, Pre Vocational Instructors will implement special work projects as directed, using the physical plant of Roca both internally and externally to create hands on learning opportunities for participants.

• Facilitate, apply, practice, and demonstrate Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT) using Roca's Intervention Model.
• Consistently exercise and application of Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT) informally, formally and virtually.
• Assist and role model in the process of obtaining and sustaining employment through job search and overall workforce professionalism.
• Engage with other aspects of work, such as but not limited to, court engagement, work behind the wall, peacemaking circles, work with the community, productive and professional participation in meetings, etc.
• Continually learn, demonstrate, practice and improve skills related to Roca's intervention model.
• Ensure accurate and timely entry of case notes into ETO (Efforts to Outcome system) daily.
• Act as a Crew Supervisor and manage a work crew, when needed.
• Analyze and interpret ETO data as it relates to young people and understanding how data relates to a young person's progress.
• Ability to adapt outreach efforts in accordance of data collected in ETO.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Primary responsibility to manage a work crew in alignment with CDC and state and local guidelines and recommendations.
• Ability to explain and role model the process of obtaining and sustaining employment through job search and overall workforce professionalism
• Strong ability to utilize Roca's intervention Model for influence and coach behavior change.
• Strong ability to have difficult conversations and hold crew accountable for work performance.
• Ability to teach and coach Roca participants how to sustain employment by role modeling and communicating best practices and Roca's workforce professionalism curriculum.
• Manage adaptive work schedule and activities based on business needs such as teaching pre-vocational skills; maintain a caseload of participants, active engagement in job placement.
• Continual learning,…