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SCHOOL-BASED CULTURE COACH

Kansas City, Missouri | Full-time, Year-Round | $45,000–$52,000 annualized base pay

Reports to: School-Wide Intervention Lead Culture Coach

ABOUT LYRIK'S INSTITUTION

Lyrik's Institution is a Kansas City nonprofit working to reduce violence and increase economic mobility for youth and young adults ages 13–25 affected by poverty, trauma, and systemic instability. Through Cognitive Behavioral Modification (CBM), workforce pathways, case management, school-based interventions, street outreach, leadership development, and cross-sector coordination, we connect young people with stability, skills, relationships, and opportunity.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a School-Based Culture Coach to serve as a year-round relationship-centered behavior interventionist, student-development coach, school-culture partner, and opportunity connector. During the school year, you will be embedded at an approved partner school helping students strengthen emotional regulation, decision-making, school engagement, accountability, leadership, and connection to long-term opportunity. During IBUILD program hours and summer, you will maintain continuity with students served during the school year while supporting young people who enter through IBUILD and other approved referral pathways.

Across Lyrik's public safety ecosystem, this role combines mentorship, Cognitive Behavioral Modification (CBM)-informed coaching, restorative intervention, conflict mediation, group facilitation, school and family coordination, documentation, workforce and leadership pathways, and year-round follow-through.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Student Relationships, Belonging, and Daily Engagement

- Build consistent, trust-based relationships with assigned students while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and a steady adult presence.

- Conduct regular student check-ins; identify strengths, goals, interests, barriers, support needs, and emerging concerns; and establish a documented next step.

- Help students strengthen belonging, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, communication, accountability, leadership, and positive decision-making.

- Maintain year-round follow-through on attendance, engagement, goals, interventions, referrals, and opportunity movement so students do not fall through gaps between school, summer, and IBUILD systems.

Behavioral Intervention, De-Escalation, and Restorative Support

- Use approved CBM concepts, restorative inquiry, reflection tools, and trauma-informed strategies to help students understand the connection among thoughts, emotions, choices, behavior, and outcomes.

- Provide timely individual and small-group coaching for behavioral concerns, conflict, classroom disruption, disengagement, re-entry, and emotional-regulation needs.

- Support de-escalation, behavioral resets, conflict mediation, safety planning, and retaliation prevention within training, authority, and approved protocols.

- Escalate situations requiring authority or expertise outside the role rather than acting as school discipline, law enforcement, or clinical treatment.

Referral, Tiered Support, and Student Success Planning

- Review referrals, assess priority, engage the student, identify strengths and needs, assign the appropriate support tier, and begin an approved intervention plan within required timelines.

- Develop and maintain student success plans with clear goals, actions, owners, follow-up dates, interventions, opportunity connections, and progress indicators.

- Monitor attendance, behavior, engagement, participation, goal progress, and intervention outcomes; adjust support or escalate when progress stalls or risk increases.

- Coordinate documented referrals and handoffs to IBUILD, Case Managers, counselors, behavioral health providers, workforce staff, and other approved supports, including transition into summer or year-round programming.

School, Family, and Cross-Team Collaboration

- Collaborate with administrators, teachers, counselors, attendance teams, school support staff, Lyrik's leadership, Case Managers, and other approved partners while respecting school authority and role boundaries.

- Participate prepared in student-support meetings, intervention planning, case review, school-culture initiatives, professional development, and quarterly program review.

- Engage parents, guardians, and other authorized support persons when appropriate, using confidentiality-protective and dignity-centered communication.

- Confirm that handoffs have a receiving owner, required information, deadline, and follow-up plan; escalate unclear ownership or stalled coordination.

Year-Round IBUILD Integration and Program Delivery

- Facilitate approved CBM, IBUILD, Cultural Design, mentorship-circle, leadership, workforce-readiness, and school-culture activities with fidelity to curriculum and partner expectations.

- Support classroom management and school culture through relationship building, behavioral resets, student voice, restorative practices, and positive leadership development.

- Provide verified data and concise narrative updates on school-site activity, IBUILD participation, summer engagement, outcomes, risks, and decisions requiring leadership action.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

- Access-centered, strengths-based practice that recognizes student capacity, goals, context, lived experience, and leadership potential.

- Relationship building, emotional intelligence, self-regulation, conflict resolution, de-escalation, restorative engagement, and accountability with support.

- Clear communication and professional collaboration with students, families, educators, administrators, colleagues, community partners, and leadership.

- Sound judgment, confidentiality, professional boundaries, crisis recognition, mandated reporting, and timely escalation without unsafe overreach.

- Strong organization, follow-through, documentation, data quality, schedule management, and ability to manage multiple students and priorities.

- Ability to facilitate groups, apply approved curriculum, receive coaching, use data to adjust practice, and maintain program fidelity across school environments.

- Commitment to human capital development, public safety through opportunity, leadership development, workforce pathways, and long-term sustainability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- High school diploma or GED and at least three years of directly relevant experience in youth development, education, mentoring, behavioral support, violence prevention, workforce development, community-based services, or a related field. An associate's or bachelor's degree may substitute for up to one year of required experience.

- Demonstrated experience building trust with adolescents while maintaining structure, accountability, professional boundaries, and dependable follow-through.

- Demonstrated ability to remain calm and solution-focused during conflict, emotional escalation, rapidly changing school conditions, or other high-pressure situations.

- Ability to complete Lyrik's required summer academy and CBM, trauma-informed care, de-escalation, restorative-practice, mandated-reporting, confidentiality, IBUILD, and school-site training within established readiness timelines.

- Valid driver's license, acceptable driving record, reliable transportation, and automobile insurance that meets Lyrik's requirements.

- Ability to pass required criminal, child-abuse and neglect, and other applicable child-safety or registry screenings before direct student contact.

- Ability to learn and consistently use Salesforce, Google Calendar, Gmail, approved school systems, and Lyrik's task-management and communication tools.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Associate's or bachelor's degree in education, psychology, social work, counseling, criminal justice, sociology, human services, public health, community development, or a related field.

- Three or more years of school-based behavior intervention, youth development, restorative practice, violence prevention, mentoring, workforce development, or public-safety ecosystem experience.

- Training or certification in trauma-informed care, mental health first aid, crisis intervention, restorative practices, PBIS/MTSS, youth development, or a closely related area.

- Experience facilitating groups, supporting classroom culture, coordinating across schools and families, using Salesforce or another participant database, and contributing to outcome reporting.

- Familiarity with Kansas City schools, families, neighborhoods, public systems, community resources, and youth opportunity pathways.

WORK LOCATION, SCHEDULE, AND PAY

This full-time, year-round position works at designated partner-school site(s), approved IBUILD program location(s), Lyrik's Institution, 800 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, and other approved Kansas City-area sites as assigned. The schedule shifts between partner-school coverage during the academic year and IBUILD program hours; summer responsibilities include required training, planning, program delivery, and continued student engagement. Local Kansas City metropolitan-area travel is required.

The annualized base-pay range is $45,000–$52,000, based on directly relevant experience, qualifications, and approved salary placement.

Lyrik's Institution is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to any status protected by law and provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and for other legally protected needs.

Lyrik's Institution is a Kansas City nonprofit advancing violence prevention, youth development, workforce pathways, and economic mobility for young people ages 13–25. Through Cognitive Behavioral Modification, case management, school-based services, street outreach, leadership development, and cross-sector partnerships, we help youth build stability, opportunity, and long-term success.