Skip to content

Main menu. Press enter or space keys to expands and escape key to collapse

General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully Remote
Work Schedule
Variable 2 hours/week shifts, Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, some nights or weekends
Posted Date
05/28/2026
Salary Range: $26.42 - 37.49 Hourly
Employment Type
4 - Staff: Limited
Duration
11 months
Job #
30923

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The UCLA TIES for Families program at the Semel Institute is seeking a Peer Mentor to support foster and adoptive children, youth, and families through compassionate guidance and lived experience. TIES for Families is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to promoting the healthy growth, development, and well-being of children from birth through young adulthood who have experienced foster care and adoption.

Under the supervision of the Mentoring Program Manager, the Peer Mentor will provide encouragement, advocacy, and emotional support to clients through in-person meetings, phone, email, and virtual platforms. Serving as a trusted role model, the Peer Mentor will draw upon personal experience as either an adoptive parent or an individual with lived child welfare experience to help normalize the foster and adoptive journey, build resilience, and foster meaningful connections for children and families navigating transition and healing.

This is a limited role which may convert to career.

Hourly range: $26.42-$37.49

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Must be an adoptive parent or an adult adoptee or a former foster youth who resided in foster care for at least three years
  • Have had a positive experience with adoption
  • Ability to function as a member of an interdisciplinary team
  • Experience with mentoring high risk youth or families
  • Discretionary skills to handle confidential/sensitive material
  • Ability to take direction and supervision

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.