Job Title: Lead Overnight Youth Support Specialist
Location: Minneapolis Avenues (Onsite)
Reports To: Program Manager
Status: Full-Time, Hourly, Non-Exempt
At Avenues for Youth, we partner with youth experiencing homelessness to help them achieve housing stability and build pathways to independence. Through a social justice lens, we provide safe, affirming spaces where young people can define their futures and thrive.
The Lead Overnight Youth Support Specialist provides leadership and oversight during overnight operations, ensuring the safety, stability, and well-being of youth residents. This role combines direct youth support with staff leadership, coaching, and operational responsibility to ensure smooth and effective overnight shifts. This is a fully onsite, hands-on role working closely with youth.
Monday – Friday, 6:00 PM – 4:00 AM
Schedule may be flexible based on program needs
Pay range: $22.59 – $23.50/hour
This is an onsite role requiring standing, walking, bending, and lifting up to 25 pounds.
Avenues for Youth is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
Avenues for Youth partners with youth experiencing homelessness to achieve their dreams. Avenues does this by providing critical shelter, short-term housing and supportive services to homeless youth in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Avenues programs, which include shelter-based and transitional housing, host homes, and housing for young families are principles-based and evidence-informed. The principles grounding Avenues’ work include being trauma-informed and resilience practiced, non-judgmental, strength-based, and journey-oriented.
Avenues Values: Equity, Community, Respect + Dignity, Trust, Liberation, and Anti-Oppression
Avenues has significantly expanded in the past three years to support more youth and deepen its supportive services to ensure its impact on youth and the community is long-lasting and transformative. Today, Avenues supports more than 300 homeless youth annually through six programs. We operate two transitional living shelters, a young families program, and three community-based host home programs. Youth in Avenues' programs have onsite access to critical supports - mental health therapy, nursing, education and career supports.
Thanks to our supporters and partner organizations, Avenues has supported thousands of youth experiencing homelessness in our 24 years of operation, helping youth transition from surviving the streets to thriving young adults.
