📚 Teach with Purpose: Teacher – Unaccompanied Youth Shelter

📍 Grand Rapids, MI | 💼 Full-Time | 💰 $48,880/year + Competitive Benefits

Are you an educator with a heart for service and a passion for helping youth overcome adversity? Join our mission-driven team as a Teacher supporting unaccompanied youth in a shelter-based educational setting. This is more than a classroom — it’s a place of healing, growth, and opportunity.

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver direct educational services to youth in accordance with state and federal standards
• Adapt instruction to meet the diverse academic and emotional needs of students
• Collaborate with shelter staff and case managers to support holistic development
• Maintain accurate records and contribute to a trauma-informed, culturally responsive environment

What We’re Looking For:

• 🎓 Bachelor’s degree in Education or a related human services field (required)
• 🧑‍🏫 Valid Michigan teaching certification (preferred)
• 📚 1+ year of teaching experience with grades K–12
• 📚 Bi-lingual in Spanish strongly preferred
• 🏠 Experience working with residential or at-risk youth strongly preferred
• 💙 A commitment to trauma-informed care and educational equity

Why Join Us?

• 💵 Annual salary: $48,880
• 🎁 Competitive benefits package
• 🌱 Professional development in trauma-informed education
• 🤝 Be part of a supportive, mission-aligned team
• 🛡️ Make a lasting impact on youth navigating complex life transitions

Welcome to Samaritas Nation!

Samaritas is a Michigan-based human service organization that connects people with families and communities, empowers them to live their fullest life possible, and creates a ripple effect of transformation. The reference to the work of the Good Samaritan in our name is especially fitting as it is consistent with our mission, values and the services our faith-based company provides.  

APPLY TODAY!     #BeTheRock, creating ripples of positive transformation in the lives of those we are entrusted to serve! 

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Provides direct educational services in accordance with applicable contractual and regulatory requirements and accreditations standards.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Implement 30 hours per week of content based ESL/bilingual instruction in accordance with established curriculum
2. Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods
3. Establish clear objective for all lessons, units and projects and communicate those objectives to students, as well as teacher assistant
4. Maintain communication with all parties involved in student care, to ensure adjustment to program expectations
5. Complete education assessments and weekly progress reports in accordance with contractor
6. Create and prepare educational materials and classrooms for class activities
7. Create and maintain the schools yearly academic schedule and calendar
8. Participate in treatment planning meeting with each youth as needed or requested
9. Maintain adequate awareness of youth’s activities to ensure the safety of the youth, other residents, staff and the home are maintained
10. Report safety hazards and needed repairs with home and grounds to designated Team Leader, Case Manager or Supervisor

Job Qualifications

Education, Training, and Licensure/Certification

• Bachelor Degree in education or related field
• Valid Michigan teacher certification, preferred

Experience

• One year teaching experience with grades K-12
• Experience working with residential youth preferred
• Bi-lingual in Spanish strongly preferred

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability and willingness to display compassion and sensitivity to youth
• Ability and willingness to relate and educate youth who are in a residential placement. Ability to deal with a variety of circumstances; ability to recognize problem and respond and/or take appropriate action
• Ability to work creatively and effectively in team setting as well as independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to effectively communicate with others on an interpersonal level
• Ability to understand the cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of the youth served
• Ability to guide youth in understanding and applying basic life management skills
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form
• Ability to use basic math skills
• Ability to read, speak and legibly write English language with proper use of punctuation, spelling and grammar
• Bi-lingual in Spanish (or the Major language of the youth in care) preferred
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of youth information
• Ability to maneuver up and down staircases
• Valid unrestricted driver’s license with good driving record. Reliable personal transportation suitable for safely transporting persons served; proof of current registration and automobile insurance

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