Current Openings
Life Buddies - Youth Advocate and Professional Mentor
If you have a PASSION for building programs from the ground up and building into children to help them overcome environmental challenges, consider this opportunity!
The Bridge is implementing a new Christian mentoring model designed to support the most vulnerable children and their families. This program will match children facing significant obstacles in life with a professional mentor. Mentoring will begin in kindergarten and continue through high school graduation, no matter what. Mentors will work with each child every week on our strengths-based curriculum–things like resilience, integrity, and belonging. This position is a commitment!
Job details:
Mentor Duties:
Mentor Characteristics:
Mentor Qualifications:
Benefits:
Medical, Dental & Vision reimbursement plan, Retirement and generous paid time off.
Apply Now:
To apply, complete our online application.
Email questions to BridgeofTopeka@gmail.com.
If you have a PASSION for building programs from the ground up and building into children to help them overcome environmental challenges, consider this opportunity!
The Bridge is implementing a new Christian mentoring model designed to support the most vulnerable children and their families. This program will match children facing significant obstacles in life with a professional mentor. Mentoring will begin in kindergarten and continue through high school graduation, no matter what. Mentors will work with each child every week on our strengths-based curriculum–things like resilience, integrity, and belonging. This position is a commitment!
Job details:
- 40 hours per week, Tuesday – Saturday, afternoons, evenings, and weekends (ability to set your schedule based on the individual child and family needs of clients)
- Work locations are: school, office, individual homes, and within the community
Mentor Duties:
- Manage a small caseload of only 8 children and their families
- Design and administer a development plan for each child & family
- Set realistic goals based on individual strengths, talents, abilities, and needs
- Teach life skills
- Identify and provide enrichment resources and activities to include cultural awareness
- Support academic skills
- Network with stakeholders, support agencies, and other community partners
Mentor Characteristics:
- Growing faith in Christ and a heart to share his love with others
- Genuine passion to set kids free from the cycle of poverty
- Good sense of humor
- Relational: must develop and sustain long-term, caring, protective and loving relationships with each child (spend time with the children one-on-one)
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to maintain accurate and timely documentation
- Time summaries, activity journal, short term plans, expense reports, evaluations
- Ability to both be self-motivated and to work in a team environment
Mentor Qualifications:
- 2 years working with children, minimum
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, Associate’s degree or equivalent experience accepted
- Social worker, strongly preferred
- Bilingual Spanish a plus
- Experience working with the urban poor
- Maintain First Aid/ CPR certification
- Ability to manage several concurrent issues and solve problems effectively
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- The mentor must be the same gender as the child (We will hire 1 male and 1 female)
Benefits:
Medical, Dental & Vision reimbursement plan, Retirement and generous paid time off.
Apply Now:
To apply, complete our online application.
Email questions to BridgeofTopeka@gmail.com.