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Career Opportunities

Join a team of passionate, committed, and fun people dedicated to ensuring teens and young adults can get help when they need it most. At Spectrum, our goal is to create an environment where employees feel supported and healthy, can do their best work, and have time to enjoy their lives outside of work.

Spectrum’s culture is inclusive, collaborative, and outright fun at times. For the past three years, our employees voted Spectrum one of Vermont’s best places to work! Join us. You can help improve our youth’s lives and have a career you love.

Benefits: Employees are eligible for 27 days of combined vacation and holiday time (pro-rated for part-time employees), unlimited health leave, a 403b retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, a four-week sabbatical every six years, and a free yoga membership at Sangha.

Full-time employees (over 30 hours/week) are eligible for dental, vision, and health insurance. Spectrum pays 90% of the premium for individuals, and 80% for all other levels of insurance.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Spectrum is committed to creating and maintaining a community where youth and adults of all diverse identities are treated with respect, dignity, and equity and a community free from the weight of hate, discrimination, and fear. To read our entire Diversity Statement, click here.

For Human Resource information, please email us here: HumanResources@Spectrumvt.org.

Watch this short video and hear from employees why they love working at Spectrum!

Open Positions:

Youth Shelter Support

Supported Housing Youth Coach – Burlington

Drop-In Center Youth Coach – Burlington (Wednesday-Sunday)

Drop-In Center Youth Coach – Burlington (Monday- Thursday)


Youth Shelter Support

We have permanent full- and part-time evening and overnight positions available.

These positions provide support for youth staying in the Warming Shelter. Staff are expected to be active participants in the supported housing community and activities that support youth to achieve their goals. Staff will model effective, appropriate, and timely communication with others regarding resident updates. Timely and accurate completion of record keeping is also essential to these positions. They are awake positions; staff must be awake during the entire shift.

These are permanent year-round awake positions. The hourly rate for these positions is $21.00, with a $2 shift differential for the evening shift, and a $4 shift differential for the overnight shift. The full-time positions are eligible for an excellent benefits package. Part-time positions qualify for Paid Time Off and Health Leave.

Full-time evenings

Tuesday – Friday 4:00 pm – 2:00 am, 2 positions.
Saturday – Tuesday 4:00 pm – 2:00 am, 2 positions

Full-time Overnight

Monday – Friday 1:30 am – 9:30 am, 2 positions.

This position is eligible for a $1,000 sign-on bonus! It will be paid in two installments; 500.00 in the first check and the balance after 90 days, providing you are still an active employee.

Part-time Overnight – Weekends

Saturday – Sunday 1:30 am – 9:30 am, 2 positions.


Supported Housing Youth Coach – Burlington

Spectrum Youth Coaches provide support for, and encourages, residents to achieve the goals outlined in their service plan. Staff is expected to be active participants in the supported housing community & activities that support residents to achieve their goals. Staff will model effective, appropriate, and timely communication with others regarding resident updates. This is a nonexempt full time position, Tuesday – Friday 4:00 pm – 2:00 am which pays $23.00 per hour and excellent benefits package.


Drop-In Center Youth Coach – Burlington (Wednesday-Sunday)

Youth Coaches are the primary, frontline staff in the DropIn Center. They provide brief interventions, screening, resource coordination, referrals, and case management to youth being served in the Spectrum DropIn Center. The Youth Coaches are young adults who are at least 18 years old and need to be healthy role models for the youth being served. This is a nonexempt full time position, Wednesday, half day 2:00 – 6:00 pm and Thursday – Sunday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm which pays $21.00 plus a $2.00 per hour differential on Saturday & Sunday and is eligible for an excellent benefits package.


Drop-In Center Youth Coach – Burlington (Thursday-Monday)

Youth Coaches are the primary, frontline staff in the DropIn Center. They provide brief interventions, screening, resource coordination, referrals, and case management to youth being served in the Spectrum DropIn Center. The Youth Coaches are young adults who are at least 18 years old and need to be healthy role models for the youth being served. This is a nonexempt full time position, Thursday – Sunday 9:00 am – 6:00 and Monday, half day 9:00 am -6:00 pm which pays $21.00 plus a $2.00 per hour differential on Saturday & Sunday and is eligible for an excellent benefits package.