Youth Workforce Development Coordinator

The Opportunity Alliance • Portland, ME

21h • $24 - $26 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Youth Workforce Development Coordinator supports statewide and local youth engagement programs and initiatives that build young people’s resilience and strengthen youth leadership in public health, social justice, youth employment, and restorative practices. The role coordinates and facilitates statewide youth programming initiatives; collaborates with school districts and community partners; and supports statewide strategy and initiatives with MYAN’s statewide team and district-level stakeholders. The coordinator also co-plans the annual Youth Leadership Conference for youth and adults and co-facilitates youth-adult partnership trainings as needed.

The position is based at an office in Portland, Maine, with some opportunity for a hybrid schedule. The schedule is full time, 40 hours per week, primarily Monday through Friday, with some evening and weekend hours and travel throughout Maine, including occasional overnights. This current contract ends in August 2027, although the program is working to secure funding for continuation.

The role requires coordinating community-based work, facilitating and training youth and adults, managing concurrent projects, and working with diverse populations and partners. The position involves normal office conditions and may require driving to meetings, trainings, agency locations, or offsite client meetings, including possible transportation of clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education or a human-services-related field, such as Social Work, Psychology, or Public Health, and at least 3 years of relevant work experience; or a high school diploma and at least 5 years of related work experience.
• Demonstrated excellence and regular practice in some combination of group facilitation, positive youth development practices, and teaching or learning with adolescents and adult learners.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to travel throughout Maine, including occasional overnight travel.
• Excellent facilitation and training skills with youth and adults in multiple settings.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and maintain appropriate boundaries.
• Experience coordinating a team to plan and implement multi-stage community-based work.
• Competence working with multiple partners and soliciting input.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proficient interpersonal communication.
• Extensive software skills and Internet research abilities.
• Experience working with diverse populations, including geographically isolated youth, Indigenous youth, LGBTQ youth, youth of color, and/or youth living in poverty.
• Ability to pass criminal background, child protective service, and sex offender checks.
• Must not be on a state or federal suspension and disbarment list.
• Good driving record; driving may be necessary for meetings, trainings, offsite client meetings, and occasional client transportation.
• Ability to perform normal office activities, including sitting and occasional standing, walking, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, typing, and lifting up to 10 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of positive youth development, youth-adult partnerships, workforce development best practices, and health strategies.
• Knowledge of restorative practices, social-emotional learning, trauma-responsive practices, and/or social justice work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate statewide youth programming initiatives.
• Collaborate and liaise with school districts and community partners.
• Support statewide strategy and initiatives in coordination with MYAN’s statewide team and district-level stakeholders.
• Co-plan the annual Youth Leadership Conference for youth and adults.
• Co-facilitate youth-adult partnership trainings as needed.
• Coordinate teams to plan and implement multi-stage community-based work.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and solicit input from multiple partners.
• Travel throughout Maine to attend meetings, trainings, and conferences, and occasionally meet with clients offsite or transport clients.

Benefits

• Generous paid time off accrual.
• Nine paid holidays per calendar year and up to three floating holidays per calendar year.
• Medical benefits at a reasonable cost.
• Dental and vision insurance options.
• Agency-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 403(b) retirement plan with an agency match; all employees are eligible.
• Tuition reimbursement offered once per year through an application process.
• Qualified employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level