Youth Leadership Specialist

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, develop, and co-facilitate interactive, experiential workshops and special activities for GK's programs.
• Collaborate with GK staff and youth to generate new program ideas focusing on global/local issues and meeting the goals of the contracted initiatives.
• Develop relevant content and curriculum on global issues and 21st-century skills, while supporting social and emotional learning.
• Work with other staff and students to implement the annual Global Kids Youth Conference and other special projects.
• Lead occasional training sessions for other youth, educators, and Global Kids staff.
• Implement student outreach, recruitment, and retention strategies throughout the year.
• Help to support the partner school’s goals and functions.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with multiple stakeholders such as students, families, school personnel, policymakers, and other community members.
• Occasional evenings, weekends, and overnights with long-distance travel required (annual overnight or multi-night youth retreat, college trips, GK events).

Qualifications

• Understanding of, and willingness to learn about, a wide array of NYC social service resources for youth and families.
• Experience using interactive experiential learning strategies, counseling and conflict resolution skills, and youth development/leadership strategies with middle school and/or high school-age youth.
• Experience and enthusiasm for designing and leading educational workshops that build on each other.
• Commitment to and understanding of working in culturally diverse settings and using antiracist pedagogical practices.
• Experience working in or closely with NYC public schools is a plus.
• Knowledge of and passion for global issues, political science, history, education, social justice, and human rights.
• Excellent facilitation, consensus-building, and interpersonal skills.
• Initiative, creativity, willingness to learn, and ability to manage multiple tasks independently.
• Strong communication, writing, organizational, and technology skills (Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, Zoom).
• International experience is a plus.
• Fluency in other languages is a plus (particularly Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, and South Asian languages).

Pay

This full-time position comes with an annual salary of $45,000 – 47,000.

Benefits

• Affordable medical benefits, dental, and life insurance.
• Paid holidays, vacation time off, personal days, sick time.
• Possibilities for travel.

Global Kids, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.