THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $54,100.00-$62,215.00.

The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of New York City’s children and families by providing child welfare, juvenile justice, and early care services. In child welfare, ACS contracts with private nonprofit organizations to support and stabilize families at risk of a crisis through preventive services and provides foster care services for children not able to safely remain at home. Each year, the agency’s Division of Child Protection conducts more than 55,000 investigations of suspected child abuse or neglect. In juvenile justice, ACS manages and funds services including detention and placement, intensive community-based alternatives for youth, and support services for families. In early care, ACS coordinates and funds programs and vouchers for close to 100,000 children eligible for subsidized care.

ACS’ Office of Youth Success Services (OYSS) supports training, technical assistance, and capacity building for education, employment, and college access programs. The office works with ACS staff and contracted providers and staff to ensure that children and youth receive the education, career and college readiness, employment, and supportive services they need. This position is focused in particular on supporting and advancing the employment and career readiness components of the OYSS portfolio to help ACS-involved youth prepare for and succeed in employment and careers. Under the direct supervision of the Assistant Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Education and Employment Initiatives, with latitude for independent judgement and initiative to create strategic partnerships, the Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that a trauma-informed, person-centered, and strength-based approach is prioritized in our youth development programming. The Coordinator manages referrals with our strategic partners to ensure that youth, parents, and foster are agencies are well informed about agency policy, eligibility criteria and program requirements to ensure a successful engagement rate and youth participation at over 90% per enrollment cycle. The Coordinator is primarily responsible for liaising with city agencies, community-based organizations and businesses to leverage existing opportunities for vocational and youth development. In addition, the Coordinator will work directly with coaches, specialists and staff to connect youth services and programs to career readiness, internships, vocational training, jobs and career advancement. Having the ultimate the goal of increasing the young person’s vocational development, the Coordinator will facilitate video conferences, meetings, information sessions, recruitment events and activities, that aid foster care, preventive services and juvenile justice agencies for services for youth. Finally, the Coordinator is responsible for collaborating with ACS staff, attending high-level meetings, and monitoring, tracking, and reporting outcomes that are relevant to the program..


Duties and Responsibilities of this position will include but are not limited to:

- Develop strategic partnerships w/ CUNY colleges, NYSED approved training providers and private sector employers.
- Facilitate participant enrollment, engagement, employment and certification outcomes.
- Coordinate with strategic partnerships and works with foster care, prevention services and juvenile justice providers to ensure timely engagement and feedback. Coordinates employer luncheons, job fairs, and client and employer outreach efforts.
- Develop and maintains specific program goals, objectives and policy, accomplished through work plans, time lines and deadlines established for each program.
- Answer correspondence, emails and telephone calls from strategic partners, youth and parents imparting information regarding current OEEI programs. Maintain program informational bulletin boards and flyers advertising enrollment dates and job openings with private sector employers.
- Coordinate with staff to appropriately monitor and track compliance, engagement, and program outcomes by collaborating with foster care provider staff.
- Assist in identifying and developing partnerships with private and public sector to develop worksites and jobs for youth seeking internships, work experience and professional certification.
- Data enter information into multiple systems as needed.
- Ensure that all agency policies and procedures relating to staff that include attendance, evaluation, conduct and response to youth and the public are professionally conducted and courteously applied.
- Perform other related tasks as needed.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.