Master Activity Instructor - Physical Sports, Wrestling, Martial Arts - MS129

Good Shepherd Services • Bronx, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Activity Specialist teaches and facilitates youth-centered classes tailored to their expertise. Candidates with expertise in boxing, wrestling, or striking/grappling martial arts are strongly encouraged to apply. The position is based at 2055 Mapes Avenue, Bronx, NY 10460, 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 role is non-exempt and pays $30–$40 per hour.

The instructor develops and leads age- and skill-appropriate activities that use sports and teambuilding to support participants’ artistic, educational, and leadership potential. Activities should be structured and purposeful, responsive to students’ interests, and designed to promote teamwork, mastery, emotional and professional growth, safety, belonging, and community. The instructor also supports students’ academic success, participates in staff-led activities and meetings, and carries out other assigned duties.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Must have at least 5 years of teaching experience in the subject.
• 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.
• Experience with adolescents.
• Experience teaching or coaching youth.
• Expertise in boxing, wrestling, or striking/grappling martial arts.

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 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 supports 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.

What This Job Offers

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