Activity Instructor Dance - MS 447
About The Position
The Activity Instructor teaches and facilitates a youth-centered class tailored to their area of expertise. The role develops and delivers age- and skill-appropriate activities that combine arts and academic competencies, support students’ artistic, educational, and leadership potential, and promote teamwork, mastery, and personal and professional growth. The instructor works as part of the program staff team and fosters a safe, inclusive, strength-based environment for young people. The position is based at MS 447, 125 E. 181 Street, Bronx, NY 10453. It is scheduled for 8–10 hours per week from September through June, during program hours Monday through Friday, 2 p.m.–6 p.m. Compensation is $19.50–$25.50 per hour. The position is non-exempt and reports to the Program Director, MS 447.
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 curriculum, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse the arts and academic competencies, for supervisor review before teaching.
- Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
- Pre-plan activities that provide structure and purposeful use of activity and self, including beginning and ending rituals.
- Facilitate a variety of scaffolded activities based on students’ interests.
- Promote teamwork, opportunities for mastery, and emotional and professional growth through activities.
- 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 participants’ sense of 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
