Evolve Coaching: Autism Support for College and Beyond

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Evolve provides highly specialized coaching services to more than 400 college students, job seekers, and artists each year in the Pittsburgh region. We offer arts and film programming as an accessible and meaningful avenue to connect to the world through an annual summer arts camp, year-round workshops, and ongoing outreach, support, and resources to neurodiverse artists. Evolve also works with community groups, employers, schools, and universities to offer inclusion trainings to raise awareness of neurodiversity and remedy institutional oppression.

We all have talents to share.

We treat our team with dignity and respect, and we value what every person has to offer. Evolve team members feel supported to perform excellent work and describe the working environment as inclusive, warm, genuine, transparent, and authentic. Consider applying to join our team after reviewing our opening(s) below!

Current Job openings

Coach (Masters Level)
Full time, In-person

We’re looking for a coach who thrives in an environment that offers variety and who can adapt to the needs of adolescent and adult clients from all walks of life.

What you’ll do:

Meet with clients regularly on their campus, in the community, or via tele-coaching
Help clients create clear and manageable goals, objectives and action steps
Assist clients in developing systems to reach their goals
Encourage clients to access and utilize resources in their community beyond those that Evolve offers
Assist clients to build skills for self-advocacy
Interact with parents, professors, and employers as needed
Help clients create resumes and cover letters, apply to jobs, and prepare for interviews
As needed, support clients on the job as they engage in time-limited work trials/internships, communicate with coworkers, and meet other demands of their jobs
Maintain an active client caseload with 60% of time spent with - or in direct service of - your clients
Maintain confidential and detailed notes following each interaction with students, professors, and other members of the support team
Travel to various locations throughout the day or week to support clients’ needs; some meetings are held virtually from our office or your home office

What you’ll need:

Ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and efficiently with clients and others on the support team, both during and outside of sessions.
Ability to engage and build rapport with clients to establish an effective coaching relationship.
Patience and persistence.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.
Ability to shift approach in order to adapt to each client’s unique needs.
Commitment to Evolve’s mission, values, and goals, with a passion for diversity and inclusion, and helping Autistic and other neurodivergent individuals.
Master’s Degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling, Applied Behavior Analysis, or Education required.
Minimum 1 year of clinical or educational work experience involving individual support of neurodivergent young adults preferred.

Salary: $50,000 - $55,000 per year determined by experience and licensure status, if relevant + benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salaries + retirement benefits

Medical (100% employer-paid option), dental, and vision benefits

Short term disability & Family leave benefits

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Paid time off (vacation, sick, mental health, and personal days)

Fourteen paid holidays including birthday

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible organization

Interested in learning more?

Interested candidates should send a resume and a cover letter to recruiting@evolve-coaching.org. Your cover letter should be a separate email attachment that explains what aspects of the role appeal to you and any personal or professional connection to Evolve’s mission.

We will begin reviewing applications immediately. Applications will be accepted until November 13th or until the position is filled.

Applicants who email an incomplete application (i.e., without a resume and/or cover letter) will not be considered.

If you have questions you'd like to ask before you apply, you can send them to recruiting@evolve-coaching.org.

The Evolve Coaching team values equality of opportunity, human dignity, and racial/ethnic and cultural diversity. Evolve Coaching does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin in its employment policies, programs and activities. No matter who you are, if you meet the requirements and can imagine yourself shining in the role, we hope you consider applying.

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Our programs and services

We work one-on-one with our clients, in person or online, to help them meet their personal and professional goals in college, the workplace, and daily life.

We work with students who attend Pittsburgh-area colleges and out-of-state schools, and engage with more than 100 local businesses and organizations to promote inclusion in the workplace and community.