Job Details

Job Location: Pittsburgh - Homestead, PA

Position Type: Full Time

Education Level: Bachelors Degree

Salary Range: $62000.00 - $80000.00 Salary/year

Position Summary

Under general direction from the Executive Director of Youth Guidance Greater Pittsburgh, the Program Supervisor is responsible for providing direct supervision, feedback, and support to 5-7 Direct Service Program Staff.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the Program Replication Specialists to coordinate, implement, and evaluate all program activities and outcomes.
• Recommends hiring, transfers, promotions, disciplinary actions, terminations, and other performance management decisions for direct service program staff.
• Manages performance by evaluating and developing direct service program staff to support effective curriculum implementation and professional growth.
• Collaborates with direct service program staff and the Executive Director to recruit youth, build relationships with school administrators, and administration, manage the annual program budget, and more.
• Collaborates with Executive Director to promote all supplementary curriculum activities to program participants.
• Maintains focus on the achievement of key program outcomes and ensures all programs are on track for desired metrics, including goals for student performance, retention, and satisfaction.
• Administers the program by assessing needs, making assignments, and managing programs at multiple sites where the program operates.
• Accountable for meeting specific deliverables for all contracts related to identified program areas.
• Responsible for quality and quantity of work to ensure contract deliverables.
• Serves as the primary contact for ongoing communication with school personnel, social service agencies, community groups, and public officials about program goals and objectives.
• Ensures that all program documentation, records, and required stakeholder reports are completed on time.
• Provides or arranges ongoing weekly supervision to provide specific guidance in the areas of professional responsibilities, prioritization, time and resource allocation.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Other duties as needed.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Training: Bachelor’s Degree in social work, human services, or a related field from an accredited college or university; Master’s degree preferred; Minimum of five years of work experience in the education, human service, youth development, or social service field. Minimum of one-year supervisory experience is required; two years preferred. Youth Engagement experience preferred.

Skills/Abilities: Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Proven ability to be an energetic, innovative, and motivated self-starter. Ability to commit to working in at-risk environments with the ability to handle emergencies and take on unforeseen tasks. Demonstration of strong interpersonal and communication skills that excel in culturally sensitive teams with respect for differences. Ability to lead in a changing and ambiguous environment. Demonstrated experience in employee supervision and HR administration required. Ability to understand and commit to the continuous improvement of service quality and the organization’s mission required. Ability to maintain positive relationships with various stakeholders required.

Benefits

Youth Guidance offers a competitive benefit package for eligible full-time employees including the option to participate in medical, dental, and vision plans as well as short-term disability, life insurance, flex spending accounts, pet insurance, 401k, a wellness program and more. You may also qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

Core Competencies

• Communication: Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams, and community served; demonstrates empathy and listening.
• Client orientation: Recognizes needs of diverse stakeholders and approaches relationships with a service orientation, to ultimately maximize the impact.
• Equity mindset: Understands and is committed to goals of equity, consistently brings an equity mindset to the organization’s work and workplace.
• Growth mindset: Views growth as important for personal and professional development; seeks out opportunities to expand skills, even if the change is required, demonstrates curiosity and eagerness to learn.
• Ownership and quality of work: Effectively manages own work, and work of the team to ensure delivery of high-quality work.
• Supervisory skills: Effectively manages and develops others.
• Mission drive: Demonstrates commitment to the mission of the organization as a whole and alignment with organization values.

Leadership Core Competencies

• Continuous improvement-minded: Takes initiative to identify and execute strategies and processes to continuously improve one’s leadership to strengthen organization’s overall impact.
• Develops and motivates others: Motivates others and supports their development through strong coaching and mentoring. Effectively stewards self and others through both small and large scale change.
• External representation and relationship building: Represents the organization among external stakeholders, and builds strong, trusting relationships with stakeholders.
• Leads with vision: Has an inspiring vision for the future of the organization, beyond the status quo, and communicates it effectively; leads with courage and willingness to take risks in service of impact.
• Manages with data: Understands data; analyzes data and identifies insights and implications.
• Strategic thinking and resource management: Considers the future of the organization proactively and responsively; weighs diverse inputs to inform strategies; identifies innovative opportunities when relevant; makes and communicates decisions that effectively balance tradeoffs between financial sustainability and impact.
• Team building: Builds strong relationships with teams and colleagues; fosters effective teams and collaborative interactions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions: The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, and viewing a computer terminal. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environments described here are representative of those employees encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions: Able to spend extended time on a computer. Able to travel to citywide program and stakeholder locations for meetings several times per week. The duties performed are primarily in a school setting. Occasional national and local travel.

Our Values

At Youth Guidance, we believe that creating a welcoming and supportive environment where everyone feels valued and respected is fundamental to realizing our vision of bright and successful futures for all young people. We acknowledge that many systems and institutions intended to support youth do not provide fair treatment or access for everyone. We strive to celebrate the unique qualities of youth and recognize them as empowered leaders, problem-solvers, and experts of their own experiences. Youth Guidance is an equal opportunity employer. Youth Guidance does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and is committed to fostering a welcoming and supportive environment where everyone feels valued and respected. People of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.