We’re growing quickly and looking for a Coach into the NYC Area. You’ll need coaching skills, grounded in diversity, LGBT and/or race equity, inclusion, therapeutic approaches/wellness, healing arts, and leadership development skillsets for this role.

Looking for someone located in or is easily accessible to NYC-Tri State Area.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY and COMMERCIALLY CONSCIOUS COMPANY.

If you love coaching adults and have strong administrative skills on everything from:

Organizational systems, team building, and coaching methods, client confidentiality, HIPAA familiarity, and more

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You’ll come in, get familiar with our project, and implement coaching with individuals and their team(s).

As we grow our organization, the coach is critically important to the high functioning of our institutional coaching service offerings. The Coach will play a key role in implementing the coaching of adults in diverse communities in the private and public sector on behalf of Kuumba Health LLC.

In this role, the Coach will bring their valuable experience, and build skills and knowledge in a variety of functional areas within our for-profit commercially conscious coaching company. The Coach reports directly to the Kuumba Health CEO.

About You:

• You’re not new to this. You can confidently provide coaching to adults, grounded in inclusive, intergenerational, trauma-informed, therapeutic, and leadership development practices. You are confident in LGBT and race equity systems and approaches of care within agencies.


• You have experience training or coaching in wellness infused and inclusion methods, with a knowledge of cutting-edge LGBT and racial equity language


• You love coaching, leadership frame, or trainings that are creatively grounded in inclusion and counteracts bias


• You move with a sense of urgency, like time is of the essence (because it is), while also implementing with intention


• You’re a master storyteller and conscious coach. You focus on delivering a core authentic message in every client engagement. You bring your coaching lens- creative lens or healing arts lens to the forefront. You face versus shrink in the face of moving teams through change adaptability and conflict.


• You like structure, organization, and project management. You approach each project with a project roadmap, plan and checklist to make sure you don’t miss a step and to make the next coaching project that much easier.


• You’re an early adopter and study organizational behavior. Working with a start-up company brings you joy!


• You’re a client-first coach. You don’t build agendas or curriculum with only yourself in mind; you create it for a specific audience. Every project begins with a clear understanding of who the target customer is, what drives them, and the primary focus from individuals to national federal prospects. 


• You check for grammar and spelling edits on every written deliverable, while also inclusive of an equitable, creative, and holistic approach that resonates and is memorable.

Timeliness and deadlines are your jam. When we have a coaching meeting at 10:00 am, you show up at 9:45 am. When the deadline is Tue at 5:30 pm, you have it done by Mon at 9:30 am.

You’re resourceful, soulful, & savvy, and you love to solve problems

You communicate clearly and confidently. If you disagree with something, you communicate that without hesitation. If you have a question, you ask.

Foster safety: If a client feels unsafe in a space, you strategize (with them) with clarity and ease, to do your best to reduce harm. 

SEEKING COACHES AS FOLLOWS:

Professional:

• This role is best fitted for a candidate with a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills, down to earth, consistent professionalism, relational, and great follow-through.


• The candidate should feel confident in honoring the unique voices of service professionals and administrators who are LGBT people of color, women of color, allies while helping the whole move forward thru change.


• The best candidate attends meetings on time, and prepared


• Able to confidently offer coaching in-person through-out NYC tri-state area agencies


• Virtual availability for administrative web conferencing, as needed.

This role is best fitted for a Master's Level candidate with a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills, and leadership development skills

Brings:

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and implicit bias models, with specialization in LGBT and race equity


• Therapeutic / Well-being models


• Adaptive leadership change models


• Understanding of religious bias/religious rights/soulful/liberatory models

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

• Excellent communication, facilitation, & work ethics


• Has phone, computer access, & computer proficiency skills


• Excited to support diverse communities, with a loving and optimistic vantage point


• Experienced in serving leaders in the LGBT, communities of color, women of color, and allies, and holding space for the lived experiences of those who differ in philosophy. Human rights and social justice form the foundation of their coaching approach


• Collaborative & solution-oriented


• Innovative & Creative


• Self-directed, motivated, tech-savvy, and keeps deadlines independently


• Maintains excellent writing and clear speaking skills


• Is a confident team player


• Able to travel through-out NYC 5 Boroughs for direct service

BENEFITS

You will work with a cutting edge and highly collaborative environment providing:

Executive coaching, emotional intelligence, equity and inclusion, and/or leadership development coaching