After-School Group Facilitator

Position Summary

The After-School Group Facilitator will work with a group of youth, planning and implementing literacy and extracurricular activities in a manner that motivates and engages children and strengthens their academic and social-emotional skills during after-school.

Essential Duties

• Understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Plan and implement high-quality, age-appropriate program activities, whether academic support, enrichment, physical activity and healthy living, or leadership development.
• Ensure the aforementioned activities align with the literacy program’s goals and achieve outlined outcomes.
• Develop and maintain an effective system of classroom management that encourages children to develop pro-social behavior and self-discipline.
• Maintain a supportive, respectful classroom environment that is well organized and resource rich to ensure activities are offered in a timely, efficient manner.
• Interact, engage and maintain open communication with parents to enable a better understanding of youth needs and how to manage the child/children.
• Attend internal and external professional development pertaining to role, including those focused on alignment of activities with educational standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• A high school diploma.
• Mets all regulatory standards for staffing set out by the NYS SACC Regulations.

Key Competencies

• Experience working with elementary school students in urban, public education settings.
• Ability to work remote services if required.
• Knowledge of positive youth development practices.
• Bilingual in Spanish/English preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver services in a manner that is sensitive to the diverse backgrounds of the children and families served (e.g. ethnicity, race, religion).
• Commitment to the Children’s Aid mission, education, and youth development principles.