Lead School-Based Culture Coach

Job Description LEAD SCHOOL-BASED CULTURE COACH

Kansas City, Missouri | Full-time, Non-exempt | $56,000–$65,000 annualized base pay

Reports to:

Executive Director

Lyrik's Institution is a Kansas City nonprofit working to reduce violence and increase economic mobility for youth and young adults ages 13–25 affected by poverty, trauma, and systemic instability. Through Cognitive Behavioral Modification (CBM), workforce pathways, case management, school-based interventions, street outreach, leadership development, and cross-sector coordination, we connect young people with stability, skills, relationships, and opportunity.

We are seeking a Lead School-Based Culture Coach to guide the daily implementation of Lyrik's school-based Culture Coach program. You will organize site priorities, support Culture Coaches in the field, monitor referrals and student progress, reinforce documentation quality, coordinate with school partners, and surface safety concerns, risks, and decisions early.

This is a highly visible, relationship-centered leadership role for someone who can coach adults, build trust with students, strengthen school partnerships, and keep multiple priorities moving with clarity and follow-through. The ideal candidate brings school-based or youth-development experience, sound judgment under pressure, culturally responsive practice, and a commitment to public safety through opportunity.

• Prepare and communicate daily site priorities, coach coverage, student follow-ups, schedule changes, and implementation risks.
• Maintain visible, relationship-centered leadership during arrival, transitions, lunch, dismissal, groups, and other high-need periods.
• Lead team huddles and operating reviews that end with clear owners, deadlines, documentation, and escalation needs.
• Coordinate routine coverage adjustments and promptly elevate gaps requiring executive action.

• Observe Culture Coach practice in individual, group, classroom, transition, and partner-facing settings.
• Provide timely, specific, dignity-centered coaching and feedback.
• Reinforce professional standards for relationship-building, boundaries, de-escalation, curriculum delivery, documentation, and follow-through.
• Support onboarding, shadowing, scenario practice, training, staff development, and readiness recommendations.

• Review referrals for urgency, ownership, response, status, barriers, and next steps.
• Lead caseload reviews covering student goals, support level, recent contact, follow-up dates, and movement barriers.
• Connect stabilization and engagement to education, workforce, leadership, behavioral health, and other approved opportunity pathways.
• Coordinate closed-loop referrals and warm handoffs so every next action has an accepted owner.

• Recognize and promptly elevate safety concerns, escalating conflict, retaliation risk, abuse or neglect concerns, self-harm concerns, and unsafe situations.
• Follow school emergency procedures, communicate verified facts through need-to-know channels, and remain within role boundaries.
• Coordinate approved prevention, de-escalation, reentry, and follow-up plans.
• Document necessary facts, actions, notifications, current status, and unresolved next steps.

• Model strengths-based, trauma-aware, culturally responsive practice that protects student dignity and strengthens belonging.
• Observe one-on-one and group delivery for engagement, pacing, relevance, emotional safety, and alignment with approved CBM methods.
• Reinforce relationship-centered communication with students, families, school staff, and internal teams.
• Identify recurring engagement or curriculum gaps and recommend training or process improvements.

• Support appropriate, consent-aware communication with parents, guardians, and family supports.
• Coordinate with case management and approved internal or external partners when student needs extend beyond the school-based role.
• Track family contacts, referrals, barriers, handoffs, opportunity connections, owners, and follow-up dates.
• Protect confidentiality and use only the minimum necessary information.

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