SCOPE
South Bronx United Inc. (SBU) is a sports-based youth development organization that uses soccer as a tool for social change aiming to help youth build character, teamwork, and leadership so they can succeed in high school, college, careers, their community and beyond. SBU serves more than 1,600 young people annually through programming on the field and in the classroom, working to unite a diverse group of students, families, and the South Bronx community toward positive goals. SBU is driven to accomplish our mission and promote the SBU Values of Showing Commitment, Bringing Integrity, and Uniting our Community in all that we do.
South Bronx United seeks a passionate and dynamic social worker or mental health counselor to join our team as the full-time Social Work Program Manager. This person will serve as a key staff member of the SBU Academy, a comprehensive and longitudinal program serving 190 youth annually, grades 6-12. The Academy program is guided by SBU’s Student-Athlete Pathway, a cohesive program design that outlines scaffolded, target outcomes for each grade level in social emotional learning, academic skills, high school and college preparation, and competitive soccer. The Social Work Program Manager works collaboratively with SBU’s Immigration Services Program Manager (SW), program staff, coach-mentors, and volunteers to achieve the organization’s mission and impact youth outcomes. The core responsibilities include individual and group SEL interventions, family support and referrals, program design for SEL infusion across academics and soccer, and managing partnerships and initiatives that contribute to a positive student experience and promote social emotional learning.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Program manager’s responsibilities include:
1. Enhance student-athlete well-being and social-emotional learning and growth
- Manage individual youth cases, including meetings, referrals, and coordination with
school, family, and other providers.
- Conduct annual social emotional learning check ins with all Academy youth, use data to
plan follow up interventions needed.
- Develop, facilitate, and track social, emotional, and behavioral interventions.
- Offer individual and group counseling for select youth.
- Adapt and facilitate SEL skills groups and workshops to promote character development
and life skills.
- Supporting leadership programs and activities.
2. Oversee SEL infusion across all SBU Academy programming
- Manage the measurement and evaluation of SEL quantitative and qualitative data from
surveys, attendance, behavior, and performance trends.