The mission of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. The vision of the IRC Seattle Youth Program is that youth from refugee backgrounds will have the skills and resources necessary to achieve academic success and pursue a future of opportunity. The goal of the School Success Program is to help recently arrived refugee students and their guardians adapt successfully to Seattle area public schools through an individualized case management approach while giving them the tools and opportunities they need to grow in their academics, regulate emotions, and expand their social circles. School Success Coaches (SSCs) will work directly with refugee families and school personnel in order to guide the student and their family through the public education system and empower them to thrive in their new setting. SSCs partner with families over the course of their practicum, conducting home and school visits to help clients make progress on mutually agreed upon goals set in a Service Plan. SSCs will ensure appropriate school schedules and class placement, communicate with children, school staff, and families, make referrals as necessary to other service providers and connect with relevant school personnel.

- Conduct student and caregiver assessments in order to set a baseline for growth and a starting point for service provision
- Establish an individual service plan for the academic year with newly arrived refugee students and their families; provide mentoring, guidance, advocacy, mediation, social activities, and secure translation/interpretation, as needed, for students and their family.
- Facilitate caregiver involvement in children’s education through phone calls, home visits, and other mechanisms, including attending Parent/Teacher conferences and family night events
- Maintain comprehensive case notes and regularly update family’s individual service plan to respond to students’ academic, material, and special case management needs.
- Participate in ongoing learning and professional development through self-study, case presentations by Youth staff and appropriate trainings and webinars
- Fulfill other case management responsibilities assigned by supervisor
- Participate in team meetings.

Interns have the opportunity to attend a variety of meetings with community partners, such as schools, community colleges; as well as other IRC network offices implementing a SSP. These are all opportunities to learn about the details that go into program design as well as relationship building with relevant stakeholders.

IRC is an organization active in a variety of advocacy efforts to support newcomer refugee families. Interns can attend IRC US and IRC Global discussions and learn about progress in relevant regulations and how can interns add their voices.

In this role you will do frequent visits to families, so travelling by car. Therefore, we cover mileage for all drives from the IRC office to families' homes, schools and other locations in the community related to the practicum.

• Currently pursuing a degree in social work
• Experience working with children and youth, specifically in the context of educational and social programs
• Experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations
• Ability to work independently.
• Willingness to work some evenings
• Understanding of the need to approach and apply case management methods with the goal of client self-sufficiency and sustainability

• Fluency in a second language such as Dari, Swahili, Pashto, Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Burmese, Ukrainian or Nepali is an advantage

Please submit resume to eva.chirinos@rescue.org