Pickleball Instructor
About the role
The Pickleball, Health, and Wellness program will offer a foundational review of the sport, enriched with wellness activities, community building, and personal development. Designed for teens, the program provides a safe, supportive, and fun environment where participants can practice teamwork and mindfulness.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Instructional:
- Plan and facilitate a pickleball curriculum, including community engagement opportunities and guest speakers
- Create clear program structure and support for teens, including agenda setting, creating group norms, and abiding by ASM’s supportive behavior management plan and incident reporting procedures
- Teach and demonstrate pickleball fundamentals and techniques, including proper footwork, serving, and timing
- Lead activities on pickleball strategies, organize games, and provide feedback to help teens improve
- Engage and guide teens through leadership methods and their application in real world experiences
- Adapt instruction to meet varying skill levels and encourage participation
- Lead the teens through the planning and implementation of an end of session demonstration of learning
- Candidate must conduct teen interviews and select teens by ASM roster deadline
- Complete data entry, including interview outcomes, daily attendance, teen checklist support, program reports, teen survey administration
- Supervise teens at an average of 15:1 teen-to-instructor ratio
- Supervise and collaborate with a teen assistant
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong knowledge of pickleball fundamentals and ability to teach them effectively
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be organized and possess a strong attention to detail
- Cultural competence
- Youth development
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant content area etc. is preferred, high school diploma or GED required
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion is required
- Experience coaching pickleball, working with youth in any sports setting is highly preferred
- Experience teaching, specifically teens, is highly preferred
About Us
After School Matters is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that annually offers after-school and summer programs to nearly 19,000 Chicago high school teens to explore and develop their talents while gaining critical skills that will set them up for success in college and beyond. Thirty-five years later, now known as After School Matters, our program has engaged more than 450,000 Chicago teens and is the nation’s largest and most successful provider of after-school and summer programs for high school teens. No other organization offers programs to high school students at the scale and quality that we do.
We offer paid apprenticeships led by professionals in the fields of arts, communications and leadership, sports, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Our nationally respected youth development model has been replicated in cities across the country and earned us the City Livability Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Programs take place at community locations throughout the city, including four ASM buildings: downtown at Gallery 37 Center for the Arts and Orleans, the Michael and Karyn Lutz Center in Belmont Cragin, and the Pullman community at Gately Park. Currently, After School Matters' annual operating budget is approximately $48M and employs approximately 500 staff across the organization. For more information, visit www.afterschoolmatters.org.
EEO
After School Matters is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, military discharge status, age, marital status, parental status, or source of income.
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