On-Call Youth Support Lead

• Provide expert consultation in one or more desired areas listed above to state agency staff and the Children’s Bureau on needs related to the Pandemic Act
• Contribute to regular project reporting for activities as needed
• Providing coaching and peer support to young adult consultants becoming coaches as they develop their coaching practice.
• Establish effective communication plans with young adult consultants, project staff, CB staff, and assigned jurisdiction staff
• Manage virtual meetings with states as needed, independently and/or as part of a team
• As needed, participate in meetings with other subject matter experts and staff to review service delivery and jurisdictional assignments, problem solve, and share lessons learned
• Provide expertise in virtual state engagements, events, training, and product/tool development
• Provide coaching, peer support and coordination to the young adult consultants on project’s

• Possess direct, personal lived experience in the child welfare system
• Ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and partnerships with young adult consultants and other subject matter experts as part of project work
• Strong knowledge of and expertise in one or more areas identified in the key responsibilities.
• Willingness to work remotely across a variety of time zones and occasional evenings and weekends
• Possess at least 4 years of relevant work experience, including providing peer support and coaching, training, technical assistance, and/or consultation to child welfare agencies

• Demonstrated experience leveraging lived expertise to advance organizational or system improvement initiatives
• Bachelor’s degree in social work, public administration, or related field
• Experience assessing organizational capacity/readiness to support youth engagement strategies
• Possess leadership and project management experience
• Knowledge of opportunities and approaches to cross-system collaboration and partnerships
• Ability to work with child welfare agency staff, youth and young adults, and CB leaders to identify technical assistance needs
• Demonstrated expert-level knowledge of state, tribal, and territorial public child welfare agencies and how they operate and transitional-age youth programs including activities under the Chafee program/ETV (including related policy, practice, funding, or associated legal issues)
• Experience supporting the execution of youth town halls or other youth listening sessions to inform disaster planning, response and recovery
• Demonstrated experienced using or working with state data to understand complex social problems, consider causes, and provide expert consultation

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead an effective team to solve problems
• Strong outreach abilities and interpersonal skills
• Creative and adaptive leadership skills
• Ability to be flexible, to multitask, to prioritize, to be detail-oriented, and to manage multiple activities
• Exceptional expertise in addressing the challenges of supporting youth in foster care and as they transition to adulthood
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
• Ability to exercise good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy
• Strong team player with the ability to take initiative and work well independently
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Ability to produce high-quality work

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