Job Details
Job Description
Closing Date: July 9, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services, Street Outreach Network (SON) is recruiting for full-time and part-time Community Service Aide III (CSA III) positions. The CSAIII will provide outreach, engagement, positive youth development and culturally based trauma informed services primarily to newcomer adolescents as well as directing them to needed resources to address social emotional needs.
This position will work as part of a team approach to address gang and youth violence in the County by working with other SON workers to identify gang involved youth and/or youth at highest risk for gang involvement and work with community organizations and agencies/departments of local and/or state government to secure needed support services.
Positions could be assigned to work in the school and community settings supporting:
Newcomer youth from Central and South America, Middle Eastern, as well as the Caribbean. (Full Time)
Bridges to Wellness Program (Full Time)
Street Outreach Network (Full Time)
Safe Space (Part Time)
These positions will work with school staff, community leaders and residents to educate, inform, develop, and implement collaborative strategies related to gang prevention and intervention needs for gang involved youth such as providing school- based intervention services.
Bilingual applicants in the Amharic, French, and Spanish to English languages are encouraged to apply , especially Mam speakers and other Indigenous Languages from the Diaspora of The Americas. If the candidate selected for this position possesses multilingual skills, they will be required to successfully pass an examination assessing oral communication, reading comprehension, and interpreting skills. For Advanced proficiency, the candidate must also pass an examination requiring translating text from these languages to English and vice versa.
Positions filled under this recruitment require a medical exam with drug screen and criminal background clearance.
Additional Employment Information
OHR reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position/IRC.
Montgomery County Government is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email to ...@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
Montgomery County Government also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, please refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for interview.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from theEthics Commissionwebsite.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: Three (3) years of experience providing delivery of social, health and/or public assistance services.
Education: Completion of high school or High School Certificate of completion recognized in the State of Maryland
Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
License: Possession and maintenance at all times of a valid driver's license when required for job-related duties.
Preferred Criteria
Preference for interviews will be given to applicants with education and experience in the following:
- Five years of experience working with gang involved youth and providing school based positive youth development programming with high-risk students with violent behaviors.
- Experience and trained in trauma informed services working with gang involved youth.
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong Teamwork philosophy
- Strong decision making and sound judgement skill during complex situations
- Experienceworkingwith newcomer youth who recently arrived in the United States.
- Experience working with or trained in culturally based, healing informed practices that serve Central and South American youth as well as youth from the Caribbean.
- Experience and working knowledge of youth and gang culture in Montgomery County or similar jurisdictions (DC, MD, and VA)
- Experience working with schools and community stakeholders in community - based collaborations.
- Experience working collaboratively as team to accomplish program goals.
- Bilingual Amharic, French, or Spanish to English prophecy
Minimum Salary 57907
Maximum Salary 91347
Currency USD