Curriculum Specialist jobs in Illinois

                                  ****Please note this is an internal opportunity for current Youth Guidance employees****

Position Summary: Serve as ongoing support and consultant for BAM Counselors regarding curriculum implementation via curriculum development/revision, curriculum cohort training, and on-site coaching to ensure program fidelity.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides ongoing BAM curriculum development and revision
• Serves as co-leader for BAM cohort training
• Provides on-going coaching, both on-site and off-site, via the 15-step Coaching Model and 5 areas of Conceptual Feedback
• Supports, builds, and shares best practices for positive student outcomes. Provides specific guidance in the areas of professional responsibilities, prioritization, time, and resource allocation as needed
• Participates in ongoing staff development, as needed, to stay current with ongoing program area trends and/or to keep professional credentials updated as needed.
• Assures that agency core values and key concepts are interwoven into program design and implementation, as allowed by program stakeholders
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Experience/Training

• Bachelor’s Degree in social work, human services, or a related area from an accredited university program or any combination of education and relevant training and/or experience.  Master degree preferred
• Five years of work experience in education, human service, youth development, or social service field. Experience in administration and program development is preferred. Work experience must demonstrate program competence and expertise
• Three years working as a BAM Counselor is preferred

Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrated passion and dedication to the agency’s mission and the continuous improvement of service quality
• Must be self-initiating, energetic and motivated
• Excellent interpersonal skills that excel in cultural sensitivity and respect for differences
• Must function well in group and team settings. Able to be solutions-focused, task-driven and innovative in those settings
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Must have good computer literacy skills, including word processing, e-mail, and data processing

Core Competencies

• Communication:Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams, and community served; demonstrates empathy and listening
• Client orientation: Recognizes needs of diverse stakeholders and approaches relationships with a service orientation, to ultimately maximize the impact
• Equity mindset:Understands and is committed to goals of equity, consistently brings an equity mindset to the organization’s work and workplace
• Growth mindset: Views growth as important for personal and professional development; seeks out opportunities to expand skills, even if the change is required, demonstrates curiosity and eagerness to learn
• Ownership and quality of work:Effectively manages own work, and the work of the team to ensure delivery of high-quality work
• Supervisory skills: Effectively manages and develops others
• Mission drive:Demonstrates commitment to the missing of the organization as a whole and alignment with organization values

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• This job operates in a professional office environment, school setting and working with the public, all Youth Guidance employees must be fully vaccinated or approved for a medical or religious exemption
• Occasional local and national travel

DEI Statement

At Youth Guidance, we understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are fundamental to realizing our vision of bright and successful futures for all young people. We celebrate the diversity of youth and recognize them as empowered leaders, problem-solvers, and experts of their own experiences. At the same time, we acknowledge that many systems and institutions meant to support youth are inequitable and unjust.

As such, we are committed to advancing DE&I through our words and our actions, both internally and externally, by:

• Strengthening cultural competence as well as policies, practices, and organizational structures that foster belonging and leverage the unique backgrounds and talents of staff;
• Offering youth-centered programs that are accessible and responsive to people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, abilities, sexual identity, gender identity and expression, language, and cultural and religious beliefs and practices;
• Influencing systems that youth, their families, and communities are impacted by, such as schools, organizational networks, governmental bodies, researchers, and the funding community, to apply approaches that embrace DEI in addressing the needs and supporting the aspirations of young people.