Youth Activity Instructor - Arts & Tech Mentor (Part-Time)

Good Shepherd Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 20,664 - 30,307; Part time

Job summary

Good Shepherd Services in New York, NY is seeking an Activity Specialist to design and deliver youth-centered arts programs after school and in community hour slots. You will develop age-appropriate curricula across dance, theater, music, visual arts, and more, collaborating with staff to foster growth and safety.

The role focuses on empowering youth through creative expression, leadership activities, and structured group work, with schedules Monday to Friday after school hours in Bronx

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, strengths-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/ Acting

Music & Lyricists

Spoken Word

Graphic Design

Photography

Videography

Robotics

Coding

Art/Animation

Boxing

Martial Arts

Cooking

Leadership development

Job description

Good Shepherd Services in New York, NY is seeking an Activity Specialist to design and deliver youth-centered arts programs after school and in community hour slots. You will develop age-appropriate curricula across dance, theater, music, visual arts, and more, collaborating with staff to foster growth and safety.

The role focuses on empowering youth through creative expression, leadership activities, and structured group work, with schedules Monday to Friday after school hours in Bronx