Youth Activities Mentor: Arts, Tech & Leadership

Good Shepherd Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 24,796 - 33,062; Part time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Services in New York, NY seeks an Activity Specialist to design and deliver youth-centered classes across arts, theater, coding, and more, fostering creativity and leadership. You will tailor curricula to age and skill, guided by supervisors, and support students’ growth in a structured, safe environment.

The role focuses on hands-on activities after school hours, with daily preparation, collaboration with staff, and participation in team meetings to ensure impactful programs for

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Dance

Theater

Music

Spoken Word

Graphic Design

Podcasting

Art/Animation

Chess

Photography

Robotics

Coding

Audio Engineering

Fashion/Cosmetology

Boxing

Martial Arts

Cooking

Other

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Good Shepherd Services in New York, NY seeks an Activity Specialist to design and deliver youth-centered classes across arts, theater, coding, and more, fostering creativity and leadership. You will tailor curricula to age and skill, guided by supervisors, and support students’ growth in a structured, safe environment.

The role focuses on hands-on activities after school hours, with daily preparation, collaboration with staff, and participation in team meetings to ensure impactful programs for