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Bilingual Spanish-Speaking Youth Development Specialist
Silver Spring, MarylandPosition Purpose:
The Youth Development Specialist provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed services aligned with Positive Youth Development (PYD) best practices. Services include mentoring, leadership programs, wellness and life skills workshops, and community-based engagement that enhance protective factors, emotional regulation, and social competencies among diverse high school students.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle and feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms, stoop, kneel, or crouch. Vision abilities include close vision with a computer monitor. The noise level is usually quiet to moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Salary: $50,000 - $55,620 Annually
The Youth Development Specialist provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed services aligned with Positive Youth Development (PYD) best practices. Services include mentoring, leadership programs, wellness and life skills workshops, and community-based engagement that enhance protective factors, emotional regulation, and social competencies among diverse high school students.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitates inclusive, engaging youth activities that foster resilience, confidence, social skills, and leadership.
- Provides individual or group mentoring, skill-building workshops, wellness programming, and special population support (e.g., LGBTQIA+, recent immigrants, gang-impacted youth).
- Tracks student participation and evaluate outcomes using County-approved measurement tools (e.g., gains in confidence, coping, and social skills).
- Maintains accurate records of participation and engagement, and input data into the County’s electronic system for monthly and quarterly productivity monitoring.
- Participate in youth programming events and activities as specified in the approved quarterly Activity Plans.
- Collects student satisfaction surveys per contract schedule and reporting requirements.
- Tracks and submit data within 2 business days for all services in the County’s electronic system, including activity type, attendance, outcomes, and partner collaborations.
- Serves a minimum of 20 unduplicated students per school per year through one-on-one services; additional students served through group, drop-in, or event-based programming.
- Ensures at least 60% of weekly hours are spent in direct service (individual or group); submit a performance improvement plan if not met quarterly.
- Supports volunteerism, community service opportunities, and student-organized initiatives (e.g., SSL-hour eligible activities).
- Encourages youth-led initiatives that address bullying, xenophobia, sexism, and other relevant social challenges.
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Other duties as assigned.
- Participates in all NCCF and DHHS required trainings.
- Facilitates programming during school, after-school, evenings, or weekends, in-person and/or virtually.
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Human Services, Education or related field
- At least 1 year of experience working with youth or adolescents in a school, community, or mentoring setting.
- Knowledge of PYD frameworks, principles, and practices.
- Experience with providing culturally responsive youth activities.
- Experience with electronic case documentation and measurement-based programming.
- DHHS background clearance required.
- Bilingual capacity preferred
- An attitude compatible with the goals and purposes of NCCF.
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle and feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms, stoop, kneel, or crouch. Vision abilities include close vision with a computer monitor. The noise level is usually quiet to moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Salary: $50,000 - $55,620 Annually