Job Description

Job Title : Social Worker- Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica

Division : Operations

Location: Santa Monica & Mar Vista Gardens Club

Status : Full-Time, Exempt

Salary Range: $75,000-$80,000

Summary Of The Role

Imagine a place where every young person, regardless of their background or circumstances, has the opportunity to explore, grow, and thrive. A place where potential isn’t just recognized, but nurtured, empowering young people to become the leaders of tomorrow. At the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica (SMBGC), we’re dedicated to turning this vision into reality, providing transformative experiences that help youth discover their strengths and achieve their dreams.

Reporting to the Chief of Staff, the Social Worker position will lead the development and implementation of behavioral health, holistic, and mental health strategies for SMBGC and specifically the Jack & Cindy Jones Mar Vista Gardens Club, located in Culver City. This role ensures delivery of trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and evidence-based services that promote mental health for youth and families. This self-directed and leadership role involves strategic thinking, content creation, cross-functional collaboration with internal and external partners, and strong experience facilitating programing, groups, and sessions with youth. This position works closely with multiple teams and programs throughout the organization, collaborates with all members of the senior leadership team and will provide expertise in mental health services and resource navigation. 

Essential Functions of the Position

Program Administration : Lead the design and creation of a comprehensive behavioral health model across SMBGC. You’ll design and create new programs, while managing daily operations, clinical documentation, ensure compliance with HIPPA, and coordinate with club leadership to embed behavioral health into daily programming. Your work will focus on creating developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed programs that foster youth growth in cognitive, social, emotional, and physical areas.

Key components of the work include leading staff training related to wellness and trauma-informed practices, and to be on the forefront of designing a social work internship program for SMBGC. The successful candidate will build and maintain university and academic partnerships to support clinical placements within our organization.

Collaborative Project and Grant Management: You’ll manage multiple projects, ensuring each meets its goals and deadlines. Assist in providing overall strategic direction for the future SMBGC Mental & Behavioral Health programming and resource navigation. Support the implementation and tracking of related grants and funding opportunities that enhance services for youth.

Strategic Thinking and Scaling : Think big! Your ability to scale programs across different clubs and age groups will be crucial to future state goals. You’ll be responsible for adapting content so that it is engaging, scalable, and sustainable, ensuring relevance across diverse audiences and maximizing the impact of our ability to incorporate mental health supports within the club setting.

Continuous Improvement: Embrace a mindset of continuous improvement, always looking for ways to enhance the effectiveness of our programs. You’ll be encouraged to make decisions, even when faced with ambiguity. Oversee proper record keeping and reporting to included but not limited to grant deliverables, program evaluations, activities, events conducted, breakdowns of daily participation figures, notable achievements, problems/issues.

Lead with intention and empathy: This position will start as an independent contributor and grow to support an SMBGC internship program and future direct reports.

Build Community and Connection: Foster community relationships and outreach with demonstrated relationship building. Be a part of creating a healthy environment for young people to thrive and build community with our National BGCA partners in the field of trauma-informed practice.

Experiences You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated experience developing curriculum and programming for youth as it relates to healthy coping mechanisms, SEL, trauma-informed, and culturally aware practices. The ability to illustrate proven skills in positive youth development, youth leadership, civic engagement, education, and instructional design.
• Knowledge of and the ability to establish relationships within the Santa Monica and L.A. nonprofit community, local school districts, colleges, and universities. Have worked with interdisciplinary and collaborative teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge of trauma, racism, and health equity in mental health service delivery.
•  Experience supervising either direct service teams, staff, interns, or volunteers. This includes recruitment and onboarding of staff, coaching, performance management, and building high-performing teams.
• Strong facilitation, training, and public speaking or presentation skills
• Project management skills that include managing deadlines, documenting standard practices, measuring progress and performance indicators, and concepts of process improvement.
• Strong writing and presentation skills with the ability to communicate your ideas clearly and for diverse audiences. Experience with digital platforms: Teams, Zoom, Excel, PowerPoint, and case management or databases are required. Understanding of HIPPA compliance.

Qualifications for the Ideal Candidate

● B.A. or Master’s in social work, counseling, or psychology. Additional licensing or credentials are an added benefit but not required.

● Broad knowledge base and understanding of Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District, youth serving nonprofits and programs dedicated key human needs and resources.

● Training and understanding of trauma-informed practices, SEL curriculum, and motivational interviewing.

● Exposure to human centered and people first practices.

● Superior organizational skills, attention to detail, project management, including the ability to effectively meet deadlines in a cross-functional, team-based environment.

● Bilingual or multilingual preferred, but not required.

What we offer you  

●  Targeted onboarding in your first 90 days including access to national curriculum and training.

●  New hire orientation that breaks down the organization and your important, fun, connected place within it. You get to understand how your work drives our mission and makes an impact in kids’ lives. 

●  An employer who invests in its team!

●  Commitment to access, opportunity, and advancement for our diverse team. 

●  Plus: Making a difference by providing a fun and safe environment for youth!

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