Our Mission: To encourage young adults to invest in their future, helping them to become responsible and motivated advocates for their life Our Vision: To provide services that guide adolescents toward successful future endeavors and encourage them to stay focused regardless of unfavorable influences or circumstances SOAR is more than just a youth organization, it’s a way of life. At SOAR - Seeing Our Adolescents Rise, we care about what we do and strive to empower the lives of youth in the Denver Metro community through our wide range of programs. We help shape our youth into young leaders of the future so they walk out of our doors prepared to take on whatever comes their way. SOAR offers Community Mentorship, Education Support, Community Service, Community Events and Activities, and Adventure Therapy to marginalized youth and families in the Denver-Metro Community

Help Young People Discover What They’re Capable Of

We are looking for Youth Adolescent Coaches who believe young people are more than their circumstances, systems involvement, or challenges. Our coaches build authentic relationships with adolescents and create opportunities for young people to develop confidence, resilience, life skills, and a stronger sense of what is possible for their futures.

Our youth, ages 7–19, come from diverse backgrounds and may be connected to mental health, public school, child welfare, court, or juvenile justice systems. We recognize that every young person brings unique strengths, identities, experiences, interests, and aspirations. We are seeking coaches who can meet young people where they are, build trust, and help them move toward where they want to go.

What You'll Do

As a Youth Adolescent Coach, you will:

• Build meaningful relationships with young people through consistency, authenticity, encouragement, and respect.
• Provide trauma-informed, strengths-based coaching that recognizes the whole young person rather than defining them by their challenges or system involvement.
• Help youth develop practical educational, social-emotional, communication, problem-solving, and life skills they can use at home, at school, in their communities, and in future careers.
• Design and facilitate adventure-based and experiential activities that turn new experiences into opportunities for growth, reflection, leadership, and discovery.
• Facilitate individual and group experiences focused on resilience, trust, healthy relationships, self-awareness, decision-making, accountability, and prosocial behaviors.
• Create spaces where young people feel seen, heard, respected, challenged, and supported.
• Partner with clinicians and other professionals to reinforce individualized goals and provide consistent support across the youth's environments.
• Develop collaborative relationships with families, schools, community organizations, service providers, and other important adults in a young person's life.
• Communicate regularly with youth, families, team members, and community partners while maintaining accurate and timely documentation.
• Work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, using sound judgment, creativity, flexibility, and cultural awareness to respond to the needs of each young person.
• ADD LANGUAGE:  Provide transportation for youth for sessions. 

Who Thrives in This Role?

You may be a great fit if you are someone who:

• Builds trust naturally and connects with young people without talking down to them.
• Can be both a supportive adult and a healthy source of accountability.
• Brings curiosity, cultural humility, and an ability to work effectively with people whose experiences may differ from your own.
• Understands that behavior is communication and approaches challenges with patience, curiosity, and compassion.
• Is comfortable trying new things and believes that learning can happen outside of a classroom or office.
• Can turn everyday experiences, challenges, and adventures into meaningful learning opportunities.
• Is dependable, emotionally grounded, adaptable, and able to maintain healthy professional boundaries.
• Can work effectively with youth and families who may have had difficult or frustrating experiences with traditional systems.
• Brings creativity, humor, authenticity, and a willingness to learn.
• Values collaboration and can communicate effectively with both youth and professionals.

Working Conditions

This position may require evening and weekend work, as well as driving around the Denver Metro area. Candidates must be able to manage their schedule effectively and complete all job responsibilities in a timely manner.

We Value Different Paths to This Work

We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds, identities, cultures, perspectives, and life experiences. We recognize that meaningful youth work does not come from one particular career path.

Relevant experience may come from youth development, education, coaching, behavioral health, outdoor/adventure programming, mentoring, community organizing, recreation, social services, lived experience, or other settings where you have built meaningful relationships with young people.

You do not have to have followed a traditional path to be an exceptional youth coach. We are interested in the strengths, experiences, perspectives, and relationships you bring to the work.

The Heart of the Role

At its core, this position is about relationship before intervention, strengths before deficits, and possibility before limitation.

Our coaches help young people experience themselves differently: as capable, connected, resilient, and worthy of investment.

If you are the kind of person who can show up consistently, earn trust, create meaningful experiences, and help a young person see possibilities they may not yet see for themselves, we want to hear from you.