NCPPC Career Application
Family Opportunity Center – Gouverneur
Posted on November 16, 2025
Salary
Beginning at $37,000 per year
Hours
40 hours per week
Benefits
- Paid Time Off (Sick, Holiday, Vacation, Personal)
- New York State Paid Family Leave
- Insurance (Health, Dental, Vision, Life)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401(k) and 401(k) Matching
- Mileage Reimbursement at GSA rate (2025 rate: 70 cents/mile)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Qualified Employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program
- Ongoing Professional Development
Required Steps to Apply
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Review the job description below.
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Email
Email to employment@ncppc.org
Mail
200 Washington St, Suite 300, Watertown, NY 13601
Duties and Responsibilities
- Work to foster acceptance of the Family Opportunity Centers, methods and policies while addressing community and individual needs and considering diverse audiences. Conduct intake and needs assessments of participating families.
- Conduct intake and needs assessments of participating families.
- Under the direction and oversight of the Family Opportunity Center Supervisor, occasionally apply established subject matter knowledge to create lesson plans as identified to deliver educational programs. Delivery methods include, but are not limited to one-on-one teaching, home visitation, newsletters, and group workshops.
- Engage families in evidence-based programming to provide needed supports for caregivers of children.
- Retain families in needed services and parenting education programs, including Triple P Level 4.
- Assess families’ strengths, challenges, and needs to best engage, retain, and provide appropriate services to families, including overcoming barriers to families accessing of services including mental health and/or substance use disorder services.
- Strengthen families by building protective factors including parental resilience, nurturing and attainment, knowledge of parenting and child development, and concrete and social supports.
- Develop parental leadership within the program and the larger community, including implementation of a standing Parent Advisory Board and/or parent representation on the program/agency advisory board to inform practice and program design. Improve connections to schools.
- Improve connections to schools.
- Improve access to community resources such as mental health services, additional services and supports, including prevention services.
- Provide family support services, including case management focusing on families with young children to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect.
- Improve school attendance and student attainment.
- Serve as a team member and cooperate with the entire agency staff to achieve agency goals.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to organize, implement and facilitate established formal and informal educational programs.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently to initiate, organize and implement established goals.
- Demonstrated ability to participate in professional team efforts.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with culturally diverse populations.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively using oral, written, and visual means.
- Demonstrate knowledge of family systems and child development.
- Demonstrated ability to utilize technology, specifically computer and word processing skills.
- Demonstrated openness to reflective practice and trauma-informed care.
- Bilingual fluency in both English and Spanish.
Minimum Requirements
- Family Support Specialist (Bachelor’s Degree) or
- Family Support Worker (Associates Degree)
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality when necessary.
- Valid NYS Driver’s License and the ability to meet travel requirements associated with this position.
- Ability to meet acceptable background check standards, as required.
- Ability to work independently and in a team setting, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to work flexible hours which may include evenings and/or weekends, as appropriate.