What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Coordinator position at THE LINCOLN CENTER FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH?
Title: Project Coordinator, DOJ STOP School Violence grant
FLSA: Exempt
Reports To: SVP, TLC Education Institute
Organization Summary:
Founded in 1970 by a behavioral health hospital and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1983, TLC is an entrepreneurial social enterprise committed to transforming lives and communities—one moment, one choice, one connection at a time. Headquartered in Pennsylvania, TLC operates across multiple states, providing K-12 alternative education, comprehensive mental and behavioral health services, coaching, counseling, and trauma-informed training. Additionally, TLC collaborates with school districts, universities, hospitals, police departments, and nonprofit organizations, offering consultation services to secure federal and state grant funding.
Position Summary: The Coordinator will manage project daily data management, ensuring activities are completed and objectives are met within budget. The Coordinator will collaborate with one (1)
School Counselor at the Capital School District and be the primary liaison between the School District and The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Collect data and adhere to the initiatives related to decreasing incidents of violence in school
• Implement an evidence-based school safety plan.
• Conduct assessments of schools and individuals to identify safety risks and individuals determined to be a potential threat to themselves or others receive a school threat assessment and are referred for services.
• Enhance multidisciplinary teams that identify school violence threats and mitigate those risks.
• Collaborate with the Project Trainer with project work related to addressing student mental health and behavioral challenges and adolescent stressors by way of Socio- emotional Learning training
• Develop and implement multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment (BTA) and/or intervention teams.
• Provide specialized training or create specialized non-training policies for law enforcement who work in schools and/or with school-age populations such as school resource officers (SROs) and probation
officers: Behavioral threat assessment in school settings.
• Serve as the Steering Committee Chair
• Work toward goals of improving students’ mental health, reducing adverse behaviors, chronic absenteeism, and academic deficits that may result from occurring school violence
• Manage project daily operations, ensuring activities are completed and objectives are met within budget
• Coordinate activities with Coatesville School District and The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth
• Responsible for ensuring project data is collected for evaluation and project continuous improvement
• Meet monthly with district administration and work on site at a minimum, weekly.
Skills:
- Flexible, self-directed, motivated, and meet deadlines
- Pro-social collaboration, communication, and problem solving
- Research-based knowledge of youth-focused intervention services
- Ability to implement and revise partnerships and programs as needed
- Capacity to work with and unite disparate groups
- Strong sense of compassion and commitment to helping people
- Maintaining consistency with program expectations to encourage academic, social, and personal growth
- Strong relationship- and team-building skills
- Ability to work in a team-driven environment with social services personnel and educators
- Ability to communicate clearly
- Strong organizational skills
- Multi-tasking capability
- Detail-oriented
Education and Experience:
Master’s degree in education, counseling, social work, or related areas and at least 5 years of administrative experience in education. Additionally, the project director will have credentials to train in project evidence-based practices. Preference given to candidates with experience managing federal grants.
Work Environment: School Settings. Travel is occasional, between schools.
Work Hours: This is a 52-week full-time position.
EEO Statement:
TLC is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to race, age, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin,
citizenship, ancestry,