Self Determination Coordinator

## Self Determination Coordinator Oakland
· Full-time#### About The Position
** Position:
** Self-Determination Coordinator
** Program:
** Beloved Village - Oakland
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* Hours:

** Full-Time, 40 hours/week
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* Reports to:

** Program Manager
** Compensation:** $31.25/hour
** About the Young Women’s Freedom Center
** Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC) is a leadership and advocacy organization that builds the leadership of directly impacted women, girls, trans people, and gender-expansive young people to transform the systems, policies, and conditions that perpetuate poverty, incarceration, and gender-based violence. Through Beloved Village, YWFC works alongside system-impacted young people and caregivers, combining individualized support, advocacy, healing-centered engagement, and leadership development to help participants strengthen their voice, exercise self-determination, and create change in their lives, families, communities, and the systems that affect them.
** The Position:
** The role of the Self Determination Coordinator is to ensure that youth at YWFC are provided support from a peer-based, restorative justice framework that is culturally grounded, and gender-specific. Additionally, the SD Coordinator ensures that the organization has the proper resources, support, and partners in place to support this work. They are responsible for conducting initial intakes and assessments, working with youth to identify their needs and strengths, assisting them in developing personal and professional goals, and providing support in accessing community resources, such as housing, child care, educational programs, etc.

Additionally, this position is responsible for ensuring that all coaching approaches and methods are in line with the organization's mission, vision, values, theory of change, methodology, as well as ensuring that we fulfill grant requirements, and YWFC annual goals and Site goals.
** Core Duties
*** Building rapport with youth on-site at YWFC and off-site at program locations including juvenile hall, jail, group homes, and county jail, to ensure folks receive the appropriate support through phone calls, snail mail, advocacy letter, and referrals appropriate services
* Conduct interviews, assessments, and develop Self-Determined Life Maps and provide resources for youth onsite at the Center and off-site at program locations including juvenile hall, jail, and group homes, and in the community
* Provide orientation and training to new staff, interns and volunteers who will support leadership programming of YWFC’s guiding principles, methodology, and policy and procedures
* Plan, facilitate, and oversee Self-Determination Advocacy activities, including Culture and Healing Circles and Programs, youth-driven community projects, special events, and other outings
* Coordinate early career exploration and leadership development, including sharing job opportunities, scholarship information, college tours, financial aid workshops, career mentoring, and healing centered opportunities
* Engage participants as community experts and provide leadership based economic opportunities for participants to begin to engage in YWFC’s work as appropriate and as a part of a larger site based strategy
* Monitor referrals and maintain relationships with the staff of external stakeholders and system partners working with participants, including, but not limited to Probation Departments, Public Defender's, community-based agencies, School districts, Social Workers, etc.
* Participate in YWFC’s movement, policy, and local campaign work on an ongoing basis including; participating in strategy and strategy related meetings as necessary, participating in work to advance local campaigns, represent the organization publicly as…