School Youth Specialist

Position: In-School Youth Specialist
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.

A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
** IRC Background:
** The Workforce Development Program assists our clients to achieve educational and career goals, learn basic financial management skills and build assets with a special emphasis on youth services. IRC's programs help youth move sustainably out of poverty by offering in-school educational support, career planning, and integrated economic empowerment services.

The REP program serves newly arrived immigrant and refugee, high school students with mentoring workshops focused on providing youth the foundational knowledge needed to be successful at pursuing their education and career goals in the United States.
** Job Overview:
** Under the supervision of the Youth Coordinator, the In-School Youth Specialist is responsible for Refugees Empowering Peers (REP) service provision and outcomes, including screening referrals from teachers, client processing and enrollment, curriculum development, providing assessments, creating individualized service plans, case management including client success coaching towards youth goals, referrals to community organizations for care givers, follow up services, and financial requests.

This role will also be responsible to coordinate school enrollments for newly arrived youth including working with families to ensure youth are enrolled into and attending school. The position will also be responsible to provide additional recommendations for student support on campus.

The Youth Specialist will develop relationships with local school districts and site staff, including building rapport, learning about opportunities on campus, and connecting youth to appropriate staff for support. Youth Specialist will be responsible to provide teachers with a clear understanding of REP objectives and enrollment criteria along with a clear referral process. The Youth Specialist will be responsible for enrolling clients into REP, ensuring that each site meets enrollment number requirements, and assigning mentors to each youth.

They will be responsible to develop goal maps with each youth and provide guidance to mentors on how to follow up on the plans monthly to ensure progression towards goals. The Youth Specialist will also train mentors on related skills and processes. All activities will advance skill acquisition and support school engagement and progression. This role will oversee the development and implementation of REP workshops aimed to support education, life skills development, employment information, and skills assessments.

In addition, the Youth Specialist will be responsible for overseeing progress made through mentoring programs and will report findings through maintaining casefiles, case notes across ETO, and internal tracking systems.

Additionally, Youth Specialist will support with school enrollments- working alongside IRC’s Community Integration Team, the specialist will work with newly arrived families to enroll students into proper schools. Specialist will meet with students and families to go over US school norms, expectations for school, and answer any questions the family may have. The specialist will work directly with the school to connect the students to resources and appointments needed for their new school.
** Major Responsibilities:
*** Client Outreach & External Partnership Development
** Identify appropriate teachers to partner with for REP youth referrals and communicate the…