Paid Professional Male Mentor - Friends of the Children

Professional Male Mentor, Full-Time Paid Position:

Friends of the Children - Portland, a nationally recognized, dynamic non-profit mentoring organization serving high-risk children in our community, has current openings for Mentors. A fantastic opportunity to work intensively with eight children to develop trusting relationships, set positive expectations, nurture talents and abilities, and teach life and academic skills.

Friends of the Children has an exceptional early intervention/prevention program focusing on our community’s most vulnerable children and providing them with professionally trained, paid mentors, called Friends. Friends guide children from kindergarten through high school graduation, in hopes of breaking the cycle of poverty, gang involvement, drug use and violence. A Friend works intensively with eight children as a positive adult role model to develop a caring, trusting and sustained relationship with each child.

For each child, a Friend will:

• Set positive expectations.

• Nurture and promote their strengths, talents and abilities.

• Help assure physical and emotional well-being.

• Teach life and academic skills.

• Provide enrichment activities.

• Model responsible behavior.

Friends work primarily one-on-one with each of their children for about four hours per week. Annual salary $29,000 to $31,000, depending on experience. Friends of the Children offers a comprehensive benefits package for all of our employees.