Activity Instructor (Cooking) - MS 447

Major Duties

• Prepare and develop age, and skill-appropriate curriculum, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse the arts and academic competencies.
• Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
• Pre-plan activities to provide students with structure, purposeful use of activity and self, including beginning and ending rituals.
• Facilitate a variety of scaffolded activities based on students’ interests.
• Promote teamwork, opportunity for mastery, and emotional and professional growth.
• Foster a youth development, strength’s-based environment, fostering a sense of belonging, safety, and community to participants.
• Engage and facilitate group conversations, tracking and supporting students’ academic success.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• A High School Diploma or GED is required.
• Experience and/or training relevant to the position is required.
• Candidates with some college, experience with adolescents and teaching/coaching youth are encouraged to apply.
• Flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm for young people are essential.
• Excellent planning, organization and time management skills are required.
• The ability to engage youth, while setting structure and limits in a group setting is necessary.
• An energetic, motivated self-starter and a team player are preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
• A commitment to work from a strength-based, youth and family development and trauma-informed perspective is essential.