Application Guide
How to Apply for Manager, Peer Coaches (Bilingual: English and Spanish)
at Our Roots
🏢 About Our Roots
Our Roots is a mission-driven non-profit that leverages virtual peer coaching to support perinatal mental health, focusing on underserved communities. With a bilingual team and a commitment to generational wellness, the organization offers a unique blend of remote flexibility and meaningful impact.
About This Role
This role combines direct supervision of peer coaches with system design to scale coaching practices. You'll shape team culture, hire and mentor coaches, and maintain hands-on coaching to stay grounded in operations—directly improving maternal mental health outcomes.
💡 A Day in the Life
Start with a bilingual team huddle to review priorities, then conduct a virtual coaching check-in with a birthing parent. Afternoon includes one-on-one supervision with a peer coach, followed by designing a new training module for the coaching framework.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Our Roots Is Looking For
- A bilingual (English/Spanish) leader with 5+ years in peer coaching and 2+ years managing coaches, ideally in behavioral health or community health settings.
- Certified CHW or willing to obtain certification, with experience hiring and scaling diverse, proximate peer teams.
- Skilled in designing training programs and management systems that foster accountability, growth, and joy.
- Comfortable balancing strategic oversight with occasional direct coaching to model best practices and stay connected to the frontline.
📝 Tips for Applying to Our Roots
Highlight your experience managing bilingual teams and specific examples of scaling peer coaching programs.
Mention any familiarity with perinatal mental health or community health worker models.
Showcase your ability to design training curricula or management systems with concrete results.
Emphasize your bilingual fluency and cultural competency in serving Spanish-speaking communities.
Tailor your resume to include metrics like team size, retention rates, or coaching hours.
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
["Your commitment to Our Roots' mission of generational mental wellness and reducing perinatal anxiety/depression.", "Specific examples of how you've built team culture rooted in care and accountability.", 'Your bilingual skills and experience working with diverse, proximate peer coaches.', 'Your systems-thinking approach to scaling coaching practices while maintaining quality.']
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Read Our Roots' website and blog to understand their coaching framework and impact stories.
- → Familiarize yourself with perinatal mental health statistics in Spanish-speaking communities.
- → Look into their current team size and structure to understand where you'd fit.
- → Review any public training materials or testimonials from peer coaches.
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Not demonstrating bilingual proficiency—ensure your resume and cover letter reflect this clearly.
- Focusing only on management without showing passion for direct coaching or mission alignment.
- Overlooking the need for systems thinking—this role requires building scalable processes, not just supervising.
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
Congratulations!