Education and Workforce Readiness Instructor – Young Women

Education And Workforce Readiness Instructor (Educator)

Roca is a fast-paced, data-driven, and relentless organization that serves nearly 2,000 high-risk young people every year. Founded just outside of Boston in 1988, Roca operates a nationally acclaimed Intervention Model with five sites in Massachusetts and one in Baltimore, Maryland, and Hartford, CT. Roca's mission is to relentlessly disrupt violence by engaging young people, police, and systems to heal trauma, find hope, and drive change.

Position Overview:

The Education and Workforce Readiness Instructor (Educator) reports to the Assistant Director of Programming. The Educator will work intensively to support and motivate the target population to re-engage in education and workforce programming to enable participants to enter the workforce. The Educator will also ensure quality and fidelity instruction of Life Skills programming, including Rewire CBT, Harm Reduction, and Parenting. The Educator will implement assessments, assist in creating a weekly and monthly programming schedule, monitor program completion and create target lists, and deliver educational, life skills, and workforce readiness programming in support of organizational benchmarks for successful program completion with participants.

• Outreach: Provide weekly attendance and participant target lists for educational classes to youth workers in team check-ins and meetings. Conduct general and targeted outreach to young people to increase participation in programming. Go on outreach with Youth Workers to meet and find participants who may require off site programming.
• Transformational Relationships: Engage and build relationships with young people for the purpose of supporting change and skill development. Engage in intentional CBT based contacts with participants to help them identify and learn skills to shift negative behavioral cycles. Communicate with youth worker regarding participant barriers (substance abuse, street, domestic violence, etc.) and skills needed to be job ready. Follow-up daily with young people and youth workers regarding participation and progress in educational programming.
  
  Assess student level of engagement readiness (i.e. can they sit through a class, do they have substance abuse barriers, do they have street issues with other participants, etc.). Actively participate in the safety of the space for all participants through building coverage and communication across the organization.
• Stage Based Programming: Responsible for administering educational assessments/tests for baseline and follow up intervals to determine educational levels and monitor educational gains. Design and deliver programming for young people at various levels of readiness to engage in learning (i.e. engagement, drop in, semi-structured; formal-structured). Responsible for implementing high quality group and individual skill building programming including but not limited to:
  HiSET ESL Workforce Readiness Digital Literacy Financial Literacy Driver's Education CBT Healthy Habits Parenting.
• Management, Learning, & Continuous Improvement: Manage and oversee assessment testing and tracking for participants in educational programming. Support the development of appropriate individualized learning plans and coordinated educational supports for participants. Work with Assistant Director on weekly and monthly programming schedules including engagements and Family Night programming. Monitor program data to create target lists for programming completion. Maintain relationships with key partners as determined (i.e. testing centers, employment partners, etc.)
  
  Stay current and connected to networks or learning communities that inform best practices in educational programming.

Maintain Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) data base through daily data entry of all work with participants, completion of assessments and all other tools as required for evaluation purposes. Utilize ETO reports and data to track participant progress and own performance in moving young people through change process and achieving expected performance indicator targets. Demonstrate mindfulness for…