Peer Coach (Full-time)

Core responsibilities:

• Offer weekly, virtual coaching check-ins with approximately 20-25 mamas and birthing parents weekly, building strong relationships and trust
• Draw from lived experience, resource database, and cultural practices to offer tools for healing and wellbeing during coaching sessions
• Document quantitative and qualitative experiences through note-taking and screenings in a supportive, non-extractive manner
• Participate in team meetings, 1:1s, and work on special projects aligned with professional development interests and community needs

This role creates positive change by providing loving, culturally-reverent peer support to pregnant and postpartum communities of color, promoting healing and preventing anxiety and depression to build generational mental wellness and ensure children thrive.

Required skills and experience:

• 3+ years of peer coaching experience, ideally in maternal mental health or mental wellness space
• Community Health Worker certification and/or 2000+ hours of coaching experience with willingness to continue expanding skills
• Strong foundational coaching skills including active listening, paraphrasing, and summarizing
• Familiarity with needs of pregnant and postpartum individuals, with lived experience/proximity to Black and African American communities
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently in remote teams

Full-time exempt salaried position with salary range of $60K-$75K (commensurate with location and experience). Competitive benefits package including vacation, holidays, sick days, health insurance, professional development opportunities, and growth within a mission-driven team.

Our Roots is a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a vision to build generational mental wellness by and with communities of color impacted by poverty, connecting pregnant and postpartum communities to peer coaches virtually to promote healing and prevent anxiety and depression.