Life Skills Entrepreneur Trainer

The Brotherhood Crusade Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer will educate, inform and guide youth and young adults enrolled in our Youth Source Center. The incumbent will be charged to train and provide in- and out-of-classroom setting that cause young people to value, aspire to and fully adopt attitudes, behaviors and beliefs that facilitate their current and future success in school and in life.

This includes providing a curriculum that fosters creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and the ability to effectively communicate along with personal and social responsibility that will contribute to good citizenship.

Specifically, the Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer shall cause 14-29 year old South Los Angeles County young people (with an emphasis on individuals who present with barriers to employment) to successfully graduate from Brotherhood Crusade’s workforce development program, which includes Brotherhood Crusade’s Stepwise Employment Experiences pathway, and be well‑prepared to secure, thrive in, advance in and sustain employment in a living wage or more highly–compensated career or entrepreneurship.

Importantly, the goal of the Brotherhood Crusade Youth Source Center is to provide services to young people that improve their life by causing them to self‑actualize, increase their agency and self‑determination, develop vocational power (life and social) and technical skills, improve their academic proficiency, and facilitate their adoption of success principles that lead to self‑reliance as well as subsequent advancement with respect to their career goals and objectives.

To this end, the Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer shall build meaningful relationships with program participants; instruct beginning, intermediate and advanced job preparation, entrepreneurship training and continuation classes; instruct financial education classes; establish partnerships with employers and workforce training institutions with respect to the use and instruction of their curricula; work with the Youth Source Center team to effectuate desired outcomes for participants;

and develop curricula for and instruct program participants who have been placed in stepwise employment opportunities to ensure sustained learning and growth in accordance with their individual‑specific youth development plans.