After School Enrichment Specialist - IDEA Frontier (Immediate Opening)

Description

Role Mission: The After School Enrichment specialists will facilitate after school programming for priority students, focusing on academic support, enrichment opportunities, and college/career readiness. Enrichment Specialists will work with campus principals and the After School Coordinator to ensure after school programs enhance the vision and priorities of the school.

Qualifications

• Education: Current college enrollment, up to 15 college hours, or professional certification in the subject you will teach
• Experience: Experience working with youth (formal or informal) and experience working in a classroom/school setting (formal or informal)
• Knowledge and Skills: Ability to instruct students and manage student behavior, strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the school environment, ability to track data weekly and monthly for reporting

What You’ll Do – Accountabilities

• Implement a clear and consistent behavior management system that aligns to campus-wide initiatives while developing students’ character and sense of community in the classroom
• Help shape and develop a school-wide culture that fosters a productive and enthusiastic learning environment for each student
• Establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with students and families based on trust, understanding, and respect for the communities in which they identify
• Provide enrichment and recreation leadership for the program students
• Foster students' self-esteem and motivation through positive interaction
• Be directly supervised by the Site Coordinator
• Attend scheduled meetings with Site Coordinator and Project Director to coordinate program design, evaluation process, and outreach efforts
• Work closely with Site Coordinator and Project Director to: Organize schedule of enrichment and/or recreational activities, Implement evaluation tools

Values and Characteristics

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Sets and reaches ambitious goals every day, is excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and works relentlessly to make college for all a reality

What We Offer

• Compensation: Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate of $14.00/hour
• Benefits: Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses and professional development
• Relocation Allowance: IDEA may offer a relocation allowance to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable