Fair Futures Coach Supervisor

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help ur neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

The Fair Futures Coach Supervisor will be responsible for oversight of the Career Development Specialist & Coaches under the Fair Futures model. The Fair Futures Coach Supervisor will lead, mentor, & drive professional development, by adherence to best practices and ensuring the team meets their key performance indicators.

1. Responsible for achieving the Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) of the program.
2. Appropriately plans for group and 1:1 coaching by using structured agenda and by pulling appropriate reports to monitor cases and to report out during meetings with AVP
3. Support Coaches with the academic and career development goal-setting process, including walking though how to use the process maps, dashboards, and selecting goals based on the youth's situation in the Care4 Platform
4. Responsible for the staff development through weekly group supervision and in 1:1 meetings while
   maintaining clear documentation of coaching/supervision and development plan. 
5. Support Coaches in their efforts to build relationships with youth, including sharing effective engagement techniques with guiding Coaches to use motivational interviewing techniques to develop and follow action plans with the youth. 
6. Ensures that all of our youth's needs are being addressed with regards to school-based advocacy and collaborative relationships with the New York State Department of Education (DOE), ACS, and other systems, as needed. 
7. Review and approve documentation in Connections/Evolve NX/Care 4 with regards to daily contacts, progress notes, incident reports, case(s) closure, in order to monitor for Program Quality Assurance, adherence to the model, evidence informed processes, agency policy and OMH guidance, and contract. 
8. Support AVP with new Fair Futures Coach Superversior & team. Asssisting with Fair Futures Model & training. Onboarding new staff as well some support with Fair Futures FAP Sup with model training & support.

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

• Minimum of 2 years experience in mentoring, advocacy, or social work. 
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, & problem-solving skills.
• Knowledege of Child Welfare to help support implentaion of services to the youth in the program
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and engage in community outreach to promote the program utilziation.
• Ability to be assertive, proactive, engage people from all backgrounds, openness to learning and feedback.
• Strong crisis management abilities to handle challenging youth and support team when incidents arise.
• Must have great organizational and time management skills to oversee multiple tasks and responsibilities efficiently.
• Demonstrated strong commitment to safety.