Financial Education Coach

Achieving Reunification Center (ARC), a non-profit entity, has served parents or legal caregivers with children placed in an out of home placement through the Department of Human Services since 2005.   The vision of Achieving Reunification Center (ARC) is that all families with children in out-of-home placement have resources and support provided to them to achieve timely reunification.

The Financial Education Coach (FEC) is responsible for a wide range of financial education service activities, including day to day delivery direct services utilizing a parent centered coaching framework. As part of the coaching framework, the coach will use motivational interview skills and goal setting techniques. The Financial Education Coach will partner with community agencies and businesses to ensure that parents have access to an array of services, education, and opportunities in order to meet their financial goals. The FEC will develop, plan and implement workshops, events and one-on-one parent meetings around money management, budgeting, debt management and credit repair education and services. The primary objective of the Financial Education Coach is to assist families in obtaining the financial services needed for parent reunification. The FEC will work closely with the ARC Housing Support Coach, as participation in financial education is a requirement for housing services.  The FEC will also oversee ARC’s Workforce Development Partners, as income is needed in order to apply financial education.

Full time benefits package including:

The candidate for this position may be subject to any of the following screenings as part of the pre-employment process: Motor Vehicle Report (MVR), PA Criminal Background Check, PA Child Abuse Clearance, FBI fingerprint, and drug/alcohol screen.