Threshold Program Community Coach (part-time)

Lesley University

56d • Onsite

About The Position

The Threshold Program Community Coach provides individualized in-home and community skills training for young adults and clients with a neurodiverse profile. In this capacity, the Coach assists individuals with engaging and becoming active participants within their community. Activities may include, but are not limited to, accessing community activities, socialization, matters related to employment, independent living, and self care. Coaches will maintain regular communication with clients, families, and other professionals involved with their clients natural support system as appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience required
• Minimum of 1 to 2 years of experience working with neurodiverse individuals.
• Must be multitask oriented and able to work collaboratively with others.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in using MS Office applications.

Nice To Haves

• Residence Life experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides individualized in-home and community skills training for young adults and clients with a neurodiverse profile.
• Assists individuals with engaging and becoming active participants within their community.
• Supports clients in accessing community activities, socialization, employment, independent living, and self-care.
• Maintains regular communication with clients, families, and other professionals involved with their clients natural support system.

Benefits

• Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.
• Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence at Lesley.
• Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference.
• At Lesley University we strive for a supportive and equitable environment where people -- regardless of race, ethnicity, color, sex, physical ability, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, veteran or military status, membership in uniformed services, and all other categories protected by applicable state and federal laws -- can participate equally and fully as their true selves in all aspects of university life.
• We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the fabric of our institution.
• At our core, we are a caring and compassionate community bound together by our passion for improving the lives of others through education, mental health, and the arts.
• Lesley is the only university in the country focused on advancing human potential through the life-time cultivation of professionals in education, mental health and the arts.
• We share an eagerness to build just and humane communities in a stressful and rapidly changing world.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees