Crew Supervisor​/PreVoc Instructor

Position Overview This position will report to the Employment Manager. Roca has created numerous strategies to help our young people gain both soft and hard skills that can help prepare them for work. Transitional Employment provides participants the opportunity to work on a real work crew, run by a Roca Crew Supervisor, to learn and practice the skills necessary to be successful
-Vocational trainings offer participants an opportunity to learn technical skills that can help them build competency and earn certificates that may help them in job searches.

When supervising a work crew, the Crew Supervisor (TECS) is responsible for supporting, coordinating, and supervising transitional employment participants on the work site and managing the site contract work. The TECS is responsible for ensuring all young people are in program compliance while ensuring the work is completed for the contract. TECSs model and teach soft skills related to employment and provide off site supervision and retention support for young people placed in transitional employment and hold young people to the work standards set by Roca.

As part of this work, the TECS serves as a working crew member on all work assignments, modeling and teaching work behavior while working and delivering on contract obligations.

The TECS will also be responsible for helping Roca participants to complete CBT and workforce readiness programs as well as to move on and be successful in outside employment. The TECS will teach these programs while on crew, on development days, at Roca and during street outreach on days when there is no scheduled work.

Responsibilities Primary responsibility to manage a work crew in alignment with state and local guidelines and worksite requirements and expectations.

Ability to explain and role model the process of obtaining and sustaining employment through job search and overall workforce professionalism.

Strong ability to utilize Roca’s intervention Model to build transformational relationships and coach behavior change.

Strong ability to have difficult conversations and hold crew accountable for work performance.

Ability to teach and coach Roca participants how to sustain employment by role modeling and communicating best practices and utilizing Roca’s workforce readiness curriculum.

Ability to reach out to or receive calls/texts from Roca participants after hours in relation to work.

Manage adaptive work schedule and activities based on needs such as teaching pre-vocational skills; maintain a caseload of participants, and active engagement in job placement.

Continual learning, demonstration, practice of Roca’s intervention model.

Consistently enter accurate and timely case notes and Transitional Employment Program (TEP) time and attendance records into ETO (Efforts to Outcome system) daily.

Facilitate, apply, practice, and demonstrate Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT informally, formally, and virtually

Engage with other aspects of work, such as but not limited to, court engagement, keeping peacemaking circles, work with community partners, productive and professional participation in meetings, etc.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications The very nature of Roca’s work requires an individual of great commitment and energy to the mission. Roca seeks a highly driven individual who is in alignment with the culture and values of Roca. In addition, the ideal candidate for this position will be a trustworthy decision-maker. The candidate will have a sense of humor, feel passionate and committed to direct work with high-risk youth, and demonstrate interest in coaching and supporting coworkers.

Roca expects candidates to have the following skills:

BA preferred/Equivalent experience accepted.

Minimum of three years of direct service work with high-risk young people.

Willingness to work on projects including construction, landscaping, painting, and building maintenance.

Experience teaching, managing, and working with small groups.

Attention to detail and ability to complete tasks with excellence and on time.

Capacity to think and act intentionally and strategically to help young people change behaviors.

Creative problem-solving and…