Youth Development Coordinator; Awake Overnight

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR (Awake Overnight) MANHATTAN GROUP HOME INTERNAL/EXTERNAL PERMANENT PART-TIME – 32 Hours Per Week

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At McMan Calgary & Area, connection is at our core. Every year, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of more than 5,000 children, youth, adults, and families by providing programs and services that support those with complex needs—including mental health challenges, addictions, homelessness, poverty, and disabilities. We believe in everyone’s deep and infinite worth, and no matter who you are, we will walk alongside you.

Through our work, we rebuild, integrate, and strengthen connections—to self, peers, families, communities, support professionals, and the land—because people need people. Our sense of well‑being, identity, and belonging comes from relationships, and healing happens through these connections. Professional supports are there for a season or a reason—not a lifetime—because our goal is to empower individuals and families to thrive independently.

We are currently looking for a Youth Development Coordinator (Awake Overnight) for our Manhattan group home.

Manhattan Place is a community-based group home for youth with complex needs who are referred through Children’s Services. This home provides a safe and stable living environment with individualized support and around the clock care for youth aged 12‑17 years. Manhattan Place works closely with youth to strengthen relationships with their families and friends and foster connections in the community.

The Youth Development Coordinator will take on a caregiving role within the group home by providing a caring and nurturing home environment that is committed to ensuring daily needs are met in a safe and supportive way. The Youth Development Coordinator will practice from a trauma‑informed framework to embed a youth‑development approach that is both strength based and relationship based. The incumbent is expected to model a collaborative and cooperative approach focused on the personal, social, cultural and educational development of youth.

McMan is seeking a candidate who builds strong relationships, cares deeply about people, and is willing to learn alongside youth, families, and communities.

• Upholding a duty of care that prioritizes trauma‑informed principles to address the complex needs of children and youth who have experienced significant trauma.
• Recognizing and responding to trauma‑related behaviours with sensitivity and understanding, emphasizing safety, cultural connectedness, and relationship development.
• Assisting youth to develop life skills, social skills and/or access to community resources.
• Supporting youth with day‑to‑day needs, including helping them prepare for school, communicating appointment information and relevant updates to the day shift, participating in meetings as required, providing thorough shift‑change information, and offering ongoing support with daily living skills and routines.
• Completing general household duties to maintain a safe, clean, and organized environment, including meal and snack preparation, laundry, cleaning, and other household tasks as required.
• Teaching and supporting individuals with activities such as hygiene, basic cooking, money management, shopping, and safety skills.
• Facilitating physical, recreational, educational, social, cultural, and vocational activities.
• Accompanying and/or transporting youth to activities such as appointments, shopping, school, employment or leisure activities, or as required.
• Supporting youth development through role modeling and teaching new skills.
• Supporting youth in navigating relationships with natural supports.
• Providing stabilization through predictable structures, clear expectations and positive behaviour support.
• Completing overnight support responsibilities such as perimeter checks; crisis management; administrative work including filing, scanning documents, and file audits; regular household activities including cleaning, meal preparation, and laundry, case management paperwork,…