Family Coach

Job Description

POSTION SUMMARY

The Family Coach role reports directly to the Family Services Director, who reports to the Executive Director. This role is responsible for providing transformative coaching to JP participants seeking to secure foundational basic needs, complete higher education, and ensure their children flourish in education and beyond. The Family coach walks alongside moms authoring their own stories, offering thought partnership, resources, support, and development. The Family Coach delivers individual and group programming to ensure moms have access to a continuum of skills and supports as they work to disrupt the cycle of generational poverty.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Family Coach is responsible for representing the two-generation mission of the program and working directly with participants at the JP campus. Key responsibilities include the following :

Coaching

• Recognize the deep humanity of the JP mom and enable the conditions for safe, judgement free reflection that is rooted in an understanding of the systemic barriers that affect single moms experiencing poverty, including but not limited to race, gender, and class barriers.
• Co-develop individual goal plans for participants to provoke self-discovery and personal growth; engage in goal setting and meaningful action
• Coach participants by encouraging agency, promoting alignment between their personal values and actions, and generating innovative solutions using empowerment techniques.
• Through coaching, act as accountability partner to participants as they strive towards their self-determined individual goals and navigate the systems to achieve economic mobility, including but not limited to college completion and career ambitions.
• Provide support, crisis intervention, guidance, and resource referrals to address a variety of barriers to the student-parent journey, including housing, legal services, immigration, finances, food security and more.
• Reinforce program concepts and tools learned in JP programming.

Program Facilitation and Delivery

Program Operations