Youth Group Leader - MYTC

Job Posting

Employer:

State of Michigan

Salary: $1,939.20 - $2,836.80 Biweekly

Location:

Mount Clemens, MI

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Job Number: 4307-25-MYTC-040-EST

Department:
Health and Human Services - Institutions

Opening Date: 11/25/2025

Bargaining Unit: AFSCME (AFSCME)

The MDHHS mission is to provide opportunities, services, and programs that promote a healthy, safe, and stable environment for residents to be self-sufficient. We are committed to ensuring a diverse workforce and a work environment whereby all employees are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. For more information, please visit our MDHHS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan.

Works collaboratively with community and agency professionals. Provides leadership to staff and team. Attends team meetings. Provides leadership for delivery of individual group and family-oriented services to residents of the institution. Identifies, locates, schedules perform, and/or attends training for facility staff.

To be considered for this position you must:

• Apply for this position online via NEOGOV; click on "Apply" in the job posting for instructions in submitting your electronic application. Hard copy applications are not accepted.
• Attach a word document resume identifying specific experience and dates of employment. Dates of employment should include month and year and hours per week.
• Attach a word document cover letter describing what strengths and work experience you bring to this position.
• Attach a copy of an official transcript(s). We accept scanned copies of official transcripts. We do not accept web-based, internet, or copies of unofficial transcripts. Official transcripts provide the name of the institution, confirmation that a degree was awarded and on what date, and the registrar's signature.

Failure to complete any of the above items may result in your application not being considered. See instructions for attaching files here:
Instructions

Education:

Possession of a bachelor's or master's degree with a major in social welfare, social work, sociology, psychology, family ecology, family and child development, counseling and guidance, clinical mental health counseling, or criminal justice.

Experience:

Youth Group Leader 9 No specific type or amount is required. Youth Group Leader 10 One year of professional experience coordinating diagnostic services of a treatment team and providing counseling to delinquent or neglected youth equivalent to a Youth Group Leader
9. Youth Group Leader P11 Two years of professional experience coordinating diagnostic services of a treatment team and providing counseling to delinquent or neglected youth equivalent to a Youth Group Leader, including one year equivalent to a Youth Group Leader 10.

This position is located at the MYTC, 400 N. Rose Street, Mt. Clemens, MI. and will be required to physically report to this location. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind is prohibited in all areas of the selection process; including, but not limited to, responses to application questions, and responses to interview questions or exercises. If you previously held status in this classification and departed within the last three (3) years, please contact Human Resources regarding your interest in a potential reinstatement.

Reinstatement is not guaranteed or required. Your application for any position does not guarantee you will be contacted by the Department/Agency for further consideration. Only those applicants interviewed will be notified of the results. Departments reserve the right to close postings prior to the closing date based on the volume of applications received. If you have questions about this position, please contact Ellicia Jackson at jackson
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If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or selection processes, please contact the ADA coordinator for the agency that posted this position vacancy.

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