Activity Instructor Dance All Styles - PS224

Good Shepherd Services • Brooklyn, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

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). This role involves preparing and developing age and skill-appropriate curriculum, lesson plans, and activities that fuse the arts and academic competencies. The instructor will work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential, fostering a youth development, strength's-based environment that promotes belonging, safety, and community. The position also includes facilitating group conversations, tracking academic success, and attending staff meetings.

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 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.

Nice To Haves

• Some college.
• Experience with adolescents.
• Teaching/coaching youth.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and develop age, and skill-appropriate curriculum, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse the arts and academic competencies.
• Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
• Pre-plan activities that 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 that 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.

What This Job Offers

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