Activity Instructor-Art

Good Shepherd Services • Bronx, NY

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Activity Specialist teaches and facilitates a youth-centered class tailored to their specific expertise. The role involves preparing and delivering structured, age- and skill-appropriate activities that combine arts and academic competencies, support students’ interests, and promote teamwork, mastery, and emotional and professional growth. The instructor also helps participants develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential and fosters a safe, inclusive, strength-based community. The position is based at PS 386, 125 E. 181 Street, Bronx, NY 10453, and runs September through June for 8–10 hours per week. Program hours are Monday through Friday, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pay is $19.50–$25.50 per hour. The role is non-exempt.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Experience and/or training relevant to the position required.
• 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 team player.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Commitment to working from a strengths-based, youth and family development, and trauma-informed perspective.

Nice To Haves

• Some college.
• Experience with adolescents.
• Experience teaching or coaching youth.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and develop age- and skill-appropriate curricula, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse arts and academic competencies, for supervisor review before teaching.
• Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
• Plan activities that provide structure and purposeful use of time, including beginning and ending rituals.
• Facilitate scaffolded activities based on students’ interests that promote teamwork, mastery, and emotional and professional growth.
• Facilitate purposeful activities during community hour and participate in other staff-led activities as part of the staff team.
• Foster a youth-development, strengths-based environment that promotes belonging, safety, and community.
• Engage and facilitate group conversations, and track and support students’ academic success.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED