Youth Program Assistant - Peoria Heights

About the role

The Youth Program Assistant provides leadership at the program sites and ensures an environment that enhances and promotes interpersonal relationships, confidence, self-esteem, values, mutual respect, and understanding of various ethnic cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. Character development is the chief mission of the Greater Peoria YMCA, and the Youth Program Assistant should exhibit a commitment to this goal in all YMCA operations.

Responsibilities

• Create a variety of experiences for participants to exercise creativity and imagination.
• Assist in carrying out lesson plans.
• Maintain a friendly attitude toward children and fellow staff.
• Enforce and share program rules and regulations with the group daily.
• Keep facilities cleaner than when arriving.
• Show respect for all equipment and return it to its proper location.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Attend staff meetings as scheduled.
• Obtain and maintain current CPR for child and infant and First Aid Certificate.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or be in the process of acquiring one.
• Ability to relate to all child participants, parents, and school age staff.
• Strong language skills both written and oral.
• Adept at public speaking.
• Ability to interpret and convey daily billing procedures to staff and parents.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions and solve problems.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to reason with others, handle their hostility, and develop solutions to problems.

Qualifications

• Current CPR and First Aid within 90 days.

Skills

• Public speaking
• Interpersonal relations
• Problem-solving
• Leadership
• Physical stamina

Benefits

• Free Membership
• Discounted Programming
• Free CPR/AED/First Aid Training
• 8% Retirement for Vested Employees
• Paid Leave For All
• Opportunities for Training and Advancement
• Work That Makes a Lasting Difference

Pay

USD $16.00 - USD $23.40 /Hr.

Schedule

Work School’s Out days as assigned.