Position Title: Youth Substance Use Peer Outreach Specialist
Reports To: Youth Prevention Manager
Classification: Part-time | Non-exempt
Salary: $21.00 per hour.
Schedule: The schedule will typically be days during the business work week (Monday through Friday), with some weekend hours. Flexibility required. This role will be scheduled to work 10-14 hours per week.
Summary: The Youth Substance Use Peer Outreach Specialist is responsible for providing outreach and information to LGBTQ+ young people at community events and agencies regarding our youth recovery services and related youth programming. This individual will also support the facilitation of youth activities at The Center and will connect youth who are interested in our substance use programs to a team member to facilitate an intake, promote youth advocacy, and develop community awareness.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Attend NYC metro area youth events and agencies providing information about The Center and The Center’s outpatient youth recovery program and services to youth and providers.
- Pick up and drop off program supplies and materials on a weekly basis for outreach events.
- Table at outreach events and conduct street outreach in targeted communities.
- Provide assistance in the coordination and implementation of Youth Coalition related activities
- Support facilitation of youth drop-in activities as needed.
- Maintain documentation of youth outreach efforts and collect contact information for prospective clients and program participants.
- Other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements:
- Peer leadership or outreach experience with the LGBT+ community and/or youth.
- Ability to model professional, responsible behavior at all times.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to work effectively with a team.
- Knowledge, understanding and experience working with LGBTQ+, TGNC, POC, and Immigrant populations, including knowledge of the spectrum of gender identity, transgender issues, immigration, and POC issues.
- Understanding of, and commitment to, undoing structural and institutional racism and bias and the spectrum of gender identity and bias. Thoughtful and articulate analysis of the above, and consideration of the impacts and outcomes in decision-making processes and on underserved and historically oppressed communities as it relates to The Center’s work.
- A strong commitment to the mission of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.
The Center’s Commitment to Equity & Inclusivity:
The Center was born of community activism in response to the AIDS epidemic, ensuring a place for LGBTQ people to access information, care, and support that they were not receiving elsewhere. We opened in 1983 to help people who had doors constantly closed in their faces, ostracized by family, friends, and shunned by the general society. Since that time, we have continually provided a wide array of services and programs to serve our community, with an intentional focus on providing support to those who are most vulnerable. We have always taken great care to be a space that responds to community need; engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion work is another outgrowth of those ongoing efforts. We recognize that in order to help LGBTQ individuals and our diverse community achieve parity in health, justice, opportunity and success outcomes, our organization must hold a strong foundation and competency in, as well as invest organizational focus on, equity and inclusion frameworks, practices and policies. This is also true in our hiring and retention of staff.
The Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.