Activity Instructor Dance All Styles - PS224

Good Shepherd Services, Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 20,664,000 - 34,440,000; Part time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Services, Ltd in Brooklyn, NY is seeking an Activity Instructor for Dance All Styles (PS224) to engage youth with diverse dance expressions after school hours. The role focuses on age-appropriate curriculum, teamwork, and positive youth development.

The schedule runs Monday to Friday, 2 pm - 6 pm, up to 8 hours per week, September through June. Candidates should have a High School Diploma or GED and relevant teaching or coaching experience, with energy and creativity.

Qualifications

• Experience with dance education or coaching youth.
• Ability to plan age-appropriate activities and curricula.
• Strong communication and group management skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and develop age- and skill-appropriate curriculum and lesson plans.
• Work with participants to develop artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
• Pre-plan activities with structured start/end rituals.
• Facilitate scaffolded activities promoting teamwork and growth.
• Lead activities during community hours and support staff-led initiatives.
• Foster a safe, inclusive, strength-based environment.
• Attend staff meetings and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Dance instruction

Youth engagement

Curriculum planning

Education

High School Diploma or GED

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Activity Instructor Dance All Styles - PS224

The Activity Specialist teaches and facilitates a youth-centered class tailored to their specific expertise. Candidates with the following expertise are encouraged to apply Dance (All Styles)

Reports To: Program Director, PS224

Location: 757 Wortman Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11208

Hours: Up to 8 hours/week; Non-Exempt, September - June

Schedule: Program Hours are Monday - Friday, 2 pm - 6 pm

Major Duties:

• Prepare and develop age, and skill-appropriate curriculum, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse the arts and academic competencies to be reviewed by supervisors before being taught.
• Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
• Pre-planning of activity; activities are to provide students with structure, purposeful use of activity and self, including beginning and ending rituals.
• Facilitate a variety of scaffolded activities based on students’ interest. Activities should promote teamwork, opportunity for mastery, and emotional and professional growth.
• Facilitate purposeful activities in community hour and participate in other staff lead activities as part of the staff team.
• Foster a youth development, strength's-based environment, fostering a sense of belonging, safety, and community to participants.
• Engage and facilitate group conversations, tracking and supporting students’ academic success.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Experience and/or training relevant to the position required.
• Candidates with some college, experience with adolescents and teaching/coaching youth are encouraged to apply.
• Flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm for young people
• Excellent planning, organization and time management skills
• Ability to engage youth, while setting structure and limits in a group setting.
• Energetic, motivated self-starter and a team player
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have a commitment to work from a strength-based, youth and family development and trauma-informed perspective.