Self-Determination Coordinator

Position: Self-Determination Coordinator

Program: Beloved Village - Oakland

Hours: Full-Time, 40 hours/week

Reports to: Program Manager

Compensation: $31.25/hour

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 Self-Determination Coordinator is grounded in Beloved Village’s approach to personal and structural transformation and YWFC’s guiding principles of Sisterhood/Sibling hood, Self-Determination, Spirituality, and Social Justice. The Coordinator ensures that participants have the space, resources, access, and advocacy needed to support their healing and strengthen their power and voice as they navigate the systems and conditions that impact their lives. This role provides direct coaching, systems navigation, advocacy, leadership development, and program coordination in alignment with YWFC’s mission, vision, values, Theory of Change, methodology, grant requirements, annual goals, and site goals.

The position carries a caseload of both youth and caregivers and includes Parent Navigator duties.

• Provide services required to implement each child’s or non-minor dependent’s Needs and Services Plan, including conducting interviews and assessments, developing Self-Determined Life Maps, and connecting youth and caregivers to appropriate resources.
• Build authentic, consistent relationships with youth and caregivers at the Center, in the community, and at program locations, including juvenile hall, county jail, group homes, and other facilities. Maintain engagement through phone calls, mail, advocacy letters, referrals, and individualized support.
• Plan, facilitate, and coordinate Self-Determination Advocacy activities, including Culture and Healing Circles, structured programming, youth-driven community projects, special events, and outings.
• Coordinate career exploration, education, healing-centered opportunities, economic opportunities, and leadership development, including employment and scholarship information, college tours, financial aid workshops, and career mentoring.
• Engage participants as community experts and collaborate with program staff to prepare youth and caregivers for leadership roles in Beloved Village’s organizing, advocacy, movement, policy, and local campaign work.
• Support participants in navigating juvenile justice, foster care, behavioral health, education, and other systems through advocacy, referrals, resources, self-advocacy strategies, and ongoing coordination with community and system partners.
• Participate in team meetings and collaborate with colleagues, caregivers, service providers, and external partners to coordinate holistic support and strengthen participant support strategies.
• Maintain timely and accurate case notes, program notes, attendance and engagement records, participant data, required forms, curricula, flyers, and other program materials in accordance with organizational documentation and storage procedures.
• Complete all reporting requirements for assigned work plans, including data collection, operations reports, supervision check-ins, and monthly program summaries reflecting…