Community Learning Center Assistant/Site Director - MSCR - 1.0 FTE

About the role

The Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) is seeking a youth program site director to develop, promote, coordinate, and supervise a variety of out-of-school and co-curricular activities for middle school students. The position will serve as a youth program site director during the summer.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a variety of out-of-school time activities for middle school students at assigned school. Activities may be organized to take place before, during school day breaks, afterschool and no-school days, with a focus on afterschool hours.
• Conduct daily activity visits to monitor program effectiveness, provide feedback to staff and assist in problem solving.
• Create a physically and emotionally safe and welcoming program environment for all participants and staff.
• Promote positive staff/student relationships and focus on positive youth development.
• Lead MSCR Summer Youth programming.
• Track participation statistics, maintain necessary records and submit reports based on site-based reporting requirements.
• Monitor, be accountable for and stay within the site-based budget.
• Purchase supplies, monitor expenditures.
• Affirm MSCR and MMSD policies and procedures.
• Attend appropriate team, staff, and school meetings.
• Participate in ongoing professional development opportunities annually outside of required team/department training.
• Recruit club leaders, sport coaches and volunteers from within and outside of school staff.
• Build positive relationships with school-based staff and promote the values and benefits of offering out of school activities.
• Hire, train, supervise and evaluate staff.
• Develop staff work schedules, assign staff, and oversee daily work.
• Collect, submit and approve timesheets.
• Promote clubs and intramural sports to students and teachers within the school setting.
• Work with school staff to disseminate information to youth and families.
• Maintain MSCR site-based website with current and accurate information.
• Share website to school-based and department communications.
• Serve as a liaison between MSCR, school personnel, community members, parents and community agencies.
• Perform other duties as assigned by executive leadership or their representatives or designees.
• Attend district and school functions that support MMSD’s strategic framework, initiatives, and core values.
• Complete any and all district required training.
• Build collaborative relationships with business partners.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to establish relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Experience in positive youth development – preferably with middle school students.
• Strong organizational skills, detail oriented and recreation program planning knowledge and experience.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with staff, customers, and community organizations.
• Proven leadership abilities and effective problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of establishing teamwork, and building partnerships and positive relationships.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to perform when confronted with emergency, unusual and/or crisis situations.
• Knowledgeable about establishing teamwork, and building partnerships and positive relationships.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with racially and culturally diverse participants, staff, parents, school staff and with the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in recreation, education, community organizing, volunteer coordination, or related fields.
• Experience in developing, managing, leading, and evaluating recreation programs, or, any combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Experience working with individuals and families from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds.
• Proficient with Google workspace, Microsoft Word and Excel.
• High school diploma required. Two years of post-high school education preferred.
• Bi-lingual in Spanish preferred.

Skills

• First Aid and/or CPR certification.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to environmental factors is minimal and poses little to no risk of injury.
• This position requires the ability to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally and may involve walking, sitting, stooping or reaching.
• Manual dexterity is necessary for completing general tasks while operating office equipment.
• This position may require being stationary for extended periods of time.
• Ability to perform work in a variety of indoor and outdoor environments throughout the year, including in inclement weather, spaces without air conditioning, and areas where temperatures may be uncomfortable or fluctuate rapidly.

Working Conditions

• Work may require travel to different locations within the district and to off-site meetings.
• Position may require working evenings, nights, and some weekends.
• Certain positions within the District may allow hybrid work flexibility for a portion of their work schedule, depending on the needs of the position and the work unit.
• This position is required to be in-person unless otherwise directed by the building principal.