Activity Instructor - STEM

Good Shepherd Services • Bronx, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Activity Specialist teaches and facilitates a youth-centered class tailored to their area of expertise. The role involves developing and leading structured, age- and skill-appropriate activities that combine arts and academic competencies and support participants’ artistic, educational, and leadership potential. Instructors foster a strengths-based, trauma-informed environment where young people can build a sense of belonging, teamwork, mastery, and personal growth. The position is based at MS 363, 120 E. 184th Street, Bronx, NY 10468, and runs September through June for 8–10 hours per week. Program hours are Monday through Friday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The position is non-exempt and pays $19.50–$25.50 per hour.

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 combine 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 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