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Youth Engagement Specialist

Description of Duties

This position is responsible for conducting outreach by engaging runaway, homeless, and street youth with the goal of addressing immediate life and safety issues, reducing the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse, reducing and preventing incidents of homelessness, and other issues. Duties involve assisting youth in crisis intervention, problem solving, action planning, and skill building by engaging in ‘authentic youth’ building through a trauma-informed lens using a system of care framework (comprehensive community-based support that provides family-driven and youth-guided services).  The employee reports directly to, and works under the general supervision of, a Senior Youth Engagement Specialist or other higher level staff member.

Minimum Qualifications

Candidates must meet the following minimum requirements on or before the date of the written exam: 

Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma PLUS either:

(A)        Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree; OR,

(B)        Graduation with an Associate’s degree plus one (1) year paid full-time or its part-time equivalent** professional* experience developing programming for youth services or direct youth service work, both of which must have involved working with disadvantaged/high-risk youth, such as those that are homeless, suffering from substance abuse disorder, or survivors of violence or sex trafficking, or other disadvantaged situations; OR,

(C)        Three (3) years paid full-time or its part-time equivalent** professional* experience developing programming for youth services or direct youth service work both of which must have involved working with disadvantaged/ high-risk youth, such as those that are homeless, suffering from substance abuse disorder, or survivors of violence or sex trafficking, or other disadvantaged situations; OR,

(D)        An equivalent combination of education and experience as defined by the limits of (A), (B) and (C) above.

*Professional, for the purposes of these minimum qualifications, does not include clerical, secretarial, manual labor or similar work.

NOTE: Your degree must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency recognized as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S Secretary of Education. If your degree was awarded by an educational institution outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency. A list of acceptable companies who provide this service can be found on the Internet at http://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/degrees.cfm. You must pay the required evaluation fee

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