Responsibilities

• Coaching and Community Building
• Build positive, long-term relationships with Thread volunteers, especially GrandParents
• Relentlessly facilitate and encourage relationships between Volunteers and Young People, that elevate the power of young people, as the foundation for achieving exemplary outcomes
• Facilitate connections between volunteer and young people’s Parents/Guardians
• Inform, educate, and foster growth of individuals at all stages of a racial equity journey
• Use effective storytelling and facilitation to drive group and individual outcomes
• Provide on-going coaching and development of a Community Engagement Specialist where applicable. A Community Engagement Specialist is a full time staff member that is hired to support up to 32 Thread young people during their first and/or second year in Thread. These young people are paired with a CES, rather than a family in their initial year(s) of Thread to build a strong and sticky foundation with the Thread community
• Cultivate and retain high-performing GrandParents and Heads of Family
• Volunteer Recruitment, Engagement and Mobilization
• Ensure the engagement and growth of young people and their Family Member volunteers by coaching and mobilizing GrandParent and Head of Family volunteer leaders

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or 3-5 years of demonstrated success in community organizing, coaching, and mobilizing people to take action
• At least 2 years of demonstrated success in project and program management, including building and developing a team of people towards common goals as well as data input, monitoring, and evaluation
• Demonstrated commitment to and experience with equity and inclusion through an intersectional lens, including experience navigating and/or coaching others through a racial equity journey
• Consistent access to a vehicle, as well as willingness to occasionally work evenings and weekends as needed
• Highly responsive, adaptive communications style; ability to inspire one-on-one and in groups of all sizes
• Ability to clearly communicate and live out Thread’s core values & core competencies.
• Recognition of the ways that race and other identities intersect and play out in the workplace.

Preferred

• Familiarity with Baltimore human services landscape, including City Public School System, neighborhoods, and/or organizations and resources
• Prior experience working in a youth-serving and/or nonprofit environment
• Prior experience working with mobile app-based data input and with Salesforce
• Fluency in a second language, especially Spanish