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.
Open Positions:
Drop-In Center Youth Coach – Burlington (Wednesday-Sunday)
Drop-In Center Youth Coach – Burlington (Monday- Thursday)
Nightly Shelter Youth Coach
These positions are eligible for a $5,000.00 sign-on bonus.
Youth Coaches provide support for youth staying in the Nightly Shelter. As an important part of the shelter’s community, you’ll help youth achieve housing stability, heal from trauma, and accomplish their goals. Youth Coaches are timely and effective communicators, supportive and engaging, and are excited about making a difference! The ideal candidate will have a passion for working with youth, knowledge of best practices in youth development, and a desire to make a positive difference in their lives. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
There are permanent full and part-time evening and awake overnight positions available. Full-time positions are eligible for an excellent benefits package and part-time positions qualify for Paid Time Off and unlimited Paid Health Leave.
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.
Full-time Awake Overnight
Monday – Friday 1:30 am – 9:30 am, 2 positions.
Part-time Awake Overnight – Weekends
Saturday – Sunday 1:30 am – 9:30 am, 2 positions.
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.
