Youth Navigator; Engagement and Partnerships

Overview

The Goddard Riverside Community Center (Goddard Riverside) and the Stanley M. Isaacs Center (Isaacs Center) are Manhattan community-based agencies with a combined annual operating budget of about $63 million serving about 30,000 New Yorkers. Pathways for Youth aims to help young adults reach age 24, prepared to be self-sustaining, by providing primary adult support to coach and assist in life planning and navigation over multiple years.

Purpose of Position: The Youth Navigator is responsible for delivering direct and comprehensive developmental services to youth in the Lincoln Square Neighborhood and Upper Westside Communities through intensive outreach and engagement of hard to serve youth ages 14 to 25 to execute pathways to becoming self-sustaining adults by age 25. The position is responsible for ongoing engagement of youth employing a primary person model.

While most programming is proactively scheduled, there is a need to be available at non-traditional hours to respond to and engage young people. Rotating presence at weekend and evening programming will be instituted as part of the strategy for engagement.

Schedule: 35+ hours per week; base schedule 1pm to 9pm Monday to Friday and rotating Saturdays 11:30 to 4:30. Flexible – Nights and Weekends Required.

Salary Range: $41,500 - $50,000

Note: Candidates must have the required qualifications to be considered for the position. The salary offer will be based on the candidate’s number of years of experience in the exact or comparable position, and additional preferred qualifications will be taken into account.