Fair Futures Program Supervisor

Job Details

Job Location:

Brooklyn, NY 11207

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $75,000.00 - $77,000.00 Salary

The Police Athletic League (or PAL) is New York City’s largest independent youthdevelopmentorganization. Weoperatediverse programs from Head Start, Day Car and Universal Pre-Kprograms;to elementary and middle school after-school programs, summer day camps and summer Play streets.

We run evening teen centers and college readiness programs, as well as youthemploymentand juvenile justice programs.

Initsover a century of service, PAL is continuing its evolution andremainsa vibrant and vital New York City institution.

Fair Futures is a youth-led advocacy movement and coalition of 100+ organizations advocating for young people who are system-involved in New York City to have access to the individualizedsupportsthey need to achieve their potential. Fair Futures is also a comprehensive model that includes a middle school program that prepares students for success in high school and a coaching program where young people ages 14+ are matched with a full-time, professionally trained Coach.

Coaches provide emotional support to young people, believe in them, and help them with their academic, career development, housing, and life goals.

The Supervisor’s overall job is to help create a strength-based, trauma-informed environment and provide ongoing management, direction, and support to up to 4-5 Coaches in building relationships with young people and helping them progress towards their goals. To achieve this, Coach Supervisors perform a variety of supervision andmanagementdaily duties. However, the work changes often according to the needs of the young people served by the Coach Supervisor’s team.

The Supervisor should build trusting relationships with Coaches, as Coaches do with young people, and model a strength-based approach in their work.

• Support Coaches in their efforts to build authentic, trusting relationships with young people, including sharing effective engagement techniques;
• Support Coaches in building relationships with the young people’s families and other key adults in their lives;
• Guide Coaches to use Motivational Interviewing techniques and the Fair Futures Coaching Language framework to develop and follow action plans with young people;
• Support Coaches with the academic and career development goal-setting process, including walking through how to use the process maps and dashboards, and selecting goals based on that young person’s situation in the online platform;
• Help Coaches navigate the DOE and other systems, as needed;
• Help Coaches prevent and navigate crises, as they arise.

Supervisors monitor the progress Coaches are making with young people through regular supervision sessions (typically weekly) and ensure Coaches are taking appropriate stepsto help young people progress and plan for the next step on their journey.

• Toprepare for supervision, the Supervisor should review key data in advance (including any progress notes, new academic data, and goals/steps completed over the last week). During the session, the Supervisor can debrief with Coaches on the status of their relationship with young people, any crisis situations, goal-setting progress, etc.

• Acknowledge and celebrate Coaches’ strengths and progress;
• Identify areas for growth;
• Provide appropriate skill development opportunities;
• Conduct team meetings with Coaches andfacilitaterelevant conversations, such as:
• Best-practice engagement and coaching techniques;
• Shared challenges across the team
• Upcoming events, training, and/or group activities.