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The Brotherhood Crusade Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer will educate, inform and guide Youth and Young Adults enrolled in our YouthSource Center. The incumbent will be charged to train and provide in- and out-of- classroom settings that cause young people to value, aspire to and fully adopt attitudes, behaviors and beliefs that facilitate their current and future success in school and in life. This includes providing a curriculum that fosters creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and the ability to effectively communicate along with personal and social responsibility that will contribute to good citizenship.   Specifically, the Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer shall cause 14-29 year old South Los Angeles County young people (with an emphasis on individuals who present with barriers to employment) to successfully graduate from Brotherhood Crusade’s workforce development program, which includes Brotherhood Crusade’s Stepwise Employment Experiences pathway, and be well-prepared to secure, thrive in, advance in and sustain employment in a living wage or more highly-compensated career or entrepreneurship. Importantly, the goal of the Brotherhood Crusade YouthSource Center is to provide services to young people that improve their life by causing them to self-actualize, increase their agency and self-determination, develop vocational power (life and social) and technical skills, improve their academic proficiency, and facilitate their adoption of success principles that lead to self-reliance as well as subsequent advancement with respect to their career goals and objectives. To this end, the Life Skills & Entrepreneur Trainer shall build meaningful relationships with program participants; instruct beginning, intermediate and advanced job preparation, entrepreneurship training and continuation classes; instruct financial education classes; establish partnerships with employers and workforce training institutions with respect to the use and instruction of their curricula; work with the YouthSource Center team effectuate desired outcomes for participants; and develop curricula for and instruct program participants who have been placed in stepwise employment opportunities to ensure sustained learning and growth in accordance with their individual-specific youth development plans.     Essential Duties- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Instruct beginning, intermediate, advanced and intensive job preparation and continuation classes using the Brotherhood Crusade Self Actualization, Jr. Executive Workforce Development Program, Power (Life) Skills for Vocational Success, Taking Financial Control, Ubuntu Experience, Accenture Skills to Succeed, and other approved curricula. These classes shall target 14–29-year-old South Los Angeles County youth and young adults with multiple barriers to employment and are mandatory for program participants. Develop beginning, intermediate, advanced and intensive job preparation and continuation curricula as appropriate. The classes shall include mainstreaming and practicum components that simulate employer expectations in a real workforce setting such that the participants experience and are held accountable to habitualizing these life lessons. Execute formal agreements with and between the youth/young adult, their parent or guardian (as appropriate) and Brotherhood Crusade outlining the terms and conditions of program participation (including weekly attendance at the beginning, intermediate, advanced and intensive job preparation, life skills and entrepreneurship classes) and the roles and responsibilities of each concerned/interested party. Develop and maintain database and statistics that directly relate to participant progress with respect to their l