Urban Strategies

Teacher

• Support teachers to promote and develop the infant and toddler in various aspects.
• Ensure learning environments are nurturing and organized.
• Provide educational support and maintain age-appropriate classroom management.
• Build relationships with families to promote child development and well-being.
• Perform daily playground health and safety monitoring.
• Detect and report signs of illness or unusual behavior of children.
• Ensure adherence to safety standards.
• Assist with food services and classroom needs as requested.
• Conduct daily routine cleaning within the classroom.
• Set-up and clean-up playground daily.
• Conduct other related activities as assigned.

Infant & Toddler Teacher

• Provide direct education formation to one cohort of youth.
• Maintain sensitivity to the culture of each youth.
• Focus educational interventions on the initial outcomes of educational assessment conducted when each youth is admitted to the program.
• Attend and monitor education field trips.
• Attend required staff meetings and trainings.
• Upon request, this role may be required to travel with UAC, 14 and under, to locations in the United States.
• Other duties as assigned.

Program Manager

• Plans, implements, supervises, and evaluates the program details, including treatment models' fidelity and individualized services for UACs.
• Promotes and extends the culture of Urban Strategies and its values.
• Prepares reports on the progress of youth; prepares reports and documentation relating to staff.
• Oversees and leads in guiding the group interaction process.
• Screens, interviews, and hires staff, and provides program-related orientation for new staff.
• Monitors progress and ensures training compliance with assistance from the Program Management Team.
• Ensures the program operates within budgetary constraints.
• Initiates purchase requests; receives supplies and equipment; maintains fiscal and inventory control records.
• Maintains personnel and budgetary records for the facility, including personal accounts for assigned youth.
• Develops community relations with public and/or private social services and other agencies and programs.
• Meets local officials, public and private agency heads, community groups, and the general public to explain the facility’s functions, programs, and role in the community.
• Solicits community support.
• Supervises the planning of menus and food services.
• Maintains security in buildings, grounds, and other posts; intervenes during emergencies to prevent escapes and maintains physical control of youth 24/7.
• Develops community resources.
• Assists in the development and implementation of treatment plans and programs.
• Supervises staff and youth working various shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime; ability to respond to crisis situations when necessary.

Program Director

• Promote and advance the social, emotional, physical, linguistic, and cognitive development and learning of infants and toddlers.
• Provide a successful, safe, and supervised educational setting in the classroom and outdoor play areas.
• Develop individual goals for children.
• Provide ongoing assessment on progress and facilitate transition into educational setting.
• Encourage parent engagement in the development and growth of their child.
• Complete a professional development plan that may include university credentials.
• Provide direct education formation to one cohort of youth.
• Maintain sensitivity to the culture of each youth.
• Focus educational interventions on the initial outcomes of educational assessment conducted when each youth is admitted to the program.
• Attend and monitor education field trips.
• Attend required staff meetings and trainings.
• May be required to travel with UAC, 14 and under, to locations in the United States.

General

• Provides direct supervision of youth case workers and ensures they maintain line-of-sight at all times.
• Provides documentation of supervision by completing a supervisory log for all staff supervised.
• Completes all required documentation that pertains to the assigned department in a timely fashion that may include daily reports.
• Ensures appropriate shelter care and line-of-sight supervision of unaccompanied minors by assigned staff is handled appropriately and is organized.
• Supports the Lead through formal or informal supervision and provides staff with ongoing feedback.
• Assists during transition and movement of children from one activity to the next and one physical location to another depending on the department assigned.
• Communicates frequently with shift supervisor.
• Participates in ongoing meetings, conferences, and training programs as required.
• Provides coverage for assigned staff when needed.
• Responsible for adhering to all Urban Strategies, contract agencies, and other state regulations.
• Provides Security Monitoring.
• Maintains surveillance systems and ensures they are always recorded.
• Ensure correct dates and times are recorded on the surveillance systems.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Safely performs duties.
• Follows the corporate safety policy.
• Participates in and supports safety meetings, training, and goals.
• Ensures safe operating conditions within area of responsibility.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work area.

Shift Leader – 1st Shift

Community Manager

• Provide vision and direction for a portfolio of programs that support pastoral, congregational, and community development.
• Ensure strategic alignment between programs and organizational priorities.
• Develop and monitor annual goals, outcomes, and evaluation frameworks for each program.
• Collaborate with executive leadership in strategic planning and resource development.
• Integrate and coach program directors and managers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
• Oversee program budgets, deliverables, and compliance with grant and partnership agreements.
• Ensure consistent systems for program planning, implementation, reporting, and impact evaluation.
• Lead the design of new church and community development programs that align with organizational mission and strategic priorities.

Senior Director – Church and Community

• Observes and redirects the teachers’ provision of high-quality education and child development services for infants and toddlers.
• Ensures compliance with the Head Start Performance Standards, applicable regulations, and the coaching model.
• Establishes and maintains comprehensive data, recordkeeping, and reporting systems.
• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with management team to develop/improve education and child development services.
• Assures alignment of child screenings, curricula, teaching practices, and family engagement to education system.

Instructional Coach

Manager

• Manages an assigned caseload (fluctuates) of post release services (Levels I & II) only.
• May assist in completing comprehensive home study reports to assess risk, safety, and appropriate placement of children.
• Complies with US and ORR policies, procedures, and mandated timeframes.
• Collaborates with care providers in verifying and assessing whether additional information may be necessary to determine successful sponsorship.
• Evaluates the prospective sponsor’s ability to provide appropriate care and a safe living environment for the child.
• Assesses, identifies, verifies, and makes recommendations in areas where additional support, resources, or information may be needed to meet a child’s needs and provisions of a safe environment.
• Maintains telephone contact and conducts virtual and in-person home visits with children and sponsors.
• Utilizes trauma focused approaches and brief therapeutic techniques to work with children and their sponsor.
• Continues on-going case management services through assessments, planning, evaluating, facilitating, and providing psychoeducation to children and their sponsor.
• Maintains appropriate documentation, safeguards confidential records, and protects personally identifiable information according to program regulations.
• Identifies and reports concerns related to children and sponsors, life changing events and significant incidences to the program and ORR.
• Acts as a mandated reporter and reports abuse/neglect to child protective services.
• Participates in training, meetings, and maintains quality improvement initiatives as recommended.
• This role requires travel to conduct in person home study and post release visits in surrounding locations in the United States.
• May include working evenings and weekends to meet required timeframes.
• Related duties as assigned and may be revised as needed to meet program needs.

Case Manager Level II

• Manages an assigned caseload (fluctuates) of post release services (Levels I, II & III).
• Complies with US and ORR policies, procedures, and mandated timeframes.
• Schedules and conducts interviews with care provider staff, children, and sponsors.
• Assesses safety on an ongoing basis, and identifies, verifies, and makes recommendations in areas where additional support, resources, and information may be needed to meet a child’s needs.
• Maintains telephone contact and conducts virtual and in-person home visits with children and sponsors.
• Provides crisis intervention services directly, safety planning as needed, and connect family to services to ensure child’s safety and well-being in a crisis.
• Collaborates with children and sponsors, as well as available informal support and access to resources, to develop a plan to ensure the safety of the child and family.
• Acts as a point of contact or liaison for the child, sponsor, and external agencies.
• Utilizes trauma focused approaches and therapeutic support to children and families with significant needs.
• Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate services and comprehensive clinical case management services through screenings, assessments, evaluations, and providing psychoeducation to children and their sponsor.
• Maintains appropriate documentation, safeguards confidential records, and protects personally identifiable information according to program regulations.
• Identifies and reports concerns related to children and sponsors, life changing events and significant incidences to the supervisor and ORR.
• Acts as a mandated reporter and reports abuse/neglect to child protective services.
• Participates in training, meetings, and maintains quality improvement initiatives as recommended.
• This role requires travel to conduct in person post release home visits in surrounding locations in the United States.
• May include working evenings and weekends to meet required timeframes.
• Related duties as assigned and may be revised as needed to meet program needs.

Infant & Toddler Teacher

Teacher

Program Director

Teacher

Shift Leader – 1st Shift

Senior Director – Church and Community

Instructional Coach

Case Manager Level II

Case Manager, Level III