Prime-Time Site Assistant - Burke County - Blakeney Elementary School or Burke County YMCA

Position Summary

The After School Counselor must enjoy working with elementary school aged children (Pre-K thru 5th). They are responsible for implementing activities, ensuring safety of all children in the program, serving after school snack, interacting with children and their families, working independently as well as with a team, and creating an enriching, fun, and safe environment. The candidate must have a positive attitude and serve as a role model to participants in the program. This position is ideal for someone who is looking to work a few hours in the afternoon. The ideal candidate is creative, child oriented, responsible, and dedicated.

Supervision Exercised

• Children in Program

Typical Physical Demands

• Full range of body motion: aerobic endurance
• Lifting up to 50lbs
• Corrected vision and hearing to normal range
• Requires running up to 100 yards (in case of an emergency)

Typical Working Conditions

• Work is performed in a school setting with indoor and outdoor activities

Job Segments

• Actively engages with children during all aspects of the program to include curriculum and fitness programs as directed by the site director, including at least 30 minutes of daily aerobic exercise
• Serves as a role model for character development on and off the job
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Exercise mature judgment and sound decision making
• Consistently demonstrate positive communication: teach and redirect rather than scolding or reprimanding children
• Consistently demonstrate and reinforce the values of caring, faith, honesty, respect, responsibility
• Positively ID unfamiliar individuals that are on list to pick up child
• Introduce yourself to parents and learn their names being sure to address them by name when greeting during drop off or pick up times
• Encourage parents to participate or volunteer in special events or in activities in the Prime Time program
• Maintains open communication with children families, and school administration and refers all questions about the overall site (rules and regulation) to the SD
• Holds children accountable to guidelines of Prime Time and school
• Ensures that agreements between the Family Y Prime Time Program, Board of Education, and school principal are followed, i.e., use of school equipment
• Attends Prime Time/ Child Care Staff meetings training, and any mandatory meetings for staff
• Certified and current at all times in CPR, First-aid, and Fire Safety
• Successfully completes a minimum of 10 hours DHR training annually
• Successfully complete curriculum training
• Preforms other duties as assigned by the SD, Area Coordinator, or Vice President youth development

Performance Requirements

• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Exercise mature judgment and sound decision making
• Consistently demonstrate positive communication: teach and redirect rather than scolding or reprimanding children
• Consistently demonstrate and reinforce the values of caring, faith, honesty, respect, responsibility

Education/Experience

• Must be 18-years-old or older
• Minimum of High School Education or General Equivalent Diploma; formal training in early education or child development preferred
• Be able to practice professionalism, displaying confidentiality while learning, following, and enforcing, local Y and national guidelines related to internal policy
• Experience in working with school aged children or youth programs

Personal Qualities

• Ability to communicate and promote the family Y mission, goals and objectives to employees, volunteers, members and the community
• Acts as a role model for character development on and off the job
• Self-motivator, has high energy
• Be a team player understanding the operation of the Prime Time site and the role of each staff person
• Understand the effect of actions from individuals on the Prime Time Site, the branch and/or Family Y association as a whole
• Demonstrates an openness to change and seeks opportunities to grow