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Bilingual Spanish-Speaking Lead Youth Development Specialist
Silver Spring, MarylandPosition Purpose:
The Lead Youth Development Specialist supervises, creates and facilitates strengths-based programming that supports adolescent development across key positive youth development (PYD) domains. This role plays an essential function in ensuring outcomes related to social-emotional growth, life skills, and positive identity formation, in alignment with County performance measures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Minimum Position Requirements:
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: $60,000 - $65,000 Annually
The Lead Youth Development Specialist supervises, creates and facilitates strengths-based programming that supports adolescent development across key positive youth development (PYD) domains. This role plays an essential function in ensuring outcomes related to social-emotional growth, life skills, and positive identity formation, in alignment with County performance measures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides supervision and problem solving support to the Youth Development Specialists’ team to ensure that the PYD outcomes of the Bridges to Wellness program are achieved.
- Plans and deliver 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).
- Collaborates with the Program Manager to draft and submit three annual PYD Activity Plans into the County system by the contractual deadlines (i.e. Fall – August 15, Winter – January 15, Summer – May 15).
- Supervises the development of individualized SMART-goal service plans by each third mentoring session and review/modify them quarterly.
- Participates and lead youth programming events and activities as specified in the approved quarterly Activity Plans
- 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 12 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).
- Administers County-approved outcome tools according to schedule and reports on PYD indicators such as coping skills, connection, or leadership.
- Facilitates programming during school, after-school, evenings, or weekends, in-person and/or virtually.
- 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.
- Coordinates weekend, evening or holiday events for students; provides transportation as needed to activities.
Minimum Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Human Services, Education or related field
- At least 1 year of supervisory or leadership experience in PYD, community-, or school-based services.
- At least 3 years of experience with adolescents in school, community, or mentoring settings.
- Strong understanding of PYD principles and practices.
- Demonstrated success planning and executing culturally responsive youth activities.
- Excellent group facilitation and engagement skills.
- 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: $60,000 - $65,000 Annually