Writers’ Room Program Assistant at New Mission High School

826 Boston • Boston, MA

20d • Onsite

About The Position

826 Boston seeks a dynamic, communicative, and flexible individual to serve as the Writers’ Room Program Assistant at New Mission High School. We are seeking a dedicated candidate who can ensure reliable, robust support for students while also building on the current strengths of the New Mission Writers’ Room Team. These strengths include engaging students in meaningful writing opportunities that develop their creative and critical thinking skills, supporting students’ social-emotional development. The team also focuses on partnering with teachers to enhance the writing instruction in their classrooms, uplifting students' creative writing abilities and curating meaningful opportunities for students to become leaders and lifelong learners in and out of the classroom.

New Mission High School is a college preparatory pilot school. Pilot schools were explicitly created to be models of educational innovation and to serve as research and development sites for effective urban public schools. The New Mission 826 Boston Writers’ Room is our newest Writers’ Room that opened in Fall 2024.

Mission
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life.

Requirements

• Experience teaching/tutoring writing to students grades 7-12 in an urban setting
• Ability to adapt to various working, management styles and student behaviors
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated collaborative skills, with the ability to work effectively across team and departments
• Strong facilitation skills and ability to support lesson plan development
• Proficiency in organizational, time management, project management, and resource management skills
• Experience with and/or willingness to learn Google Apps, Salesforce and InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar design tools
• Ability to give and receive feedback with humility, regulation, and tact
• Ability to employ innovative, creative, and student-centered thinking for creating engaging programming environments
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering community, building a strong sense of team, and embracing values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Knowledge of and fluency with social and racial justice, intersectionality, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ history, and historic/current systems of oppression
• Experience with classroom management required

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in Spanish, Haitian Creole, or French preferred, but not required
• Familiarity with the BPS system, particularly the schools in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain, preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

• Serve as a writing tutor to students seeking support with writing assignments for class visits across all content areas; example assignments include college essays, senior research capstones, portfolio projects and project-based assignments.
• Develop and lead 826 Boston-created programming, which can include stand alone workshops. Example programming includes subject-centered supplemental workshops and journalism and creative writing clubs.
• Develop instructional resources and student-facing materials to support students in building their technical writing skills for STEM or humanities subject areas
• Support students’ writing development through one-on-one conferences, small-group collaboration, and whole-class instruction leading reading and writing workshops
• Support students in social emotional learning and to process life experiences through writing and peer-to-peer and peer leadership opportunities which can include club leads, Writers’ Room Ambassadors, affinity groups, etc.
• Support with coordination of external partners for workshops, club visits, class visits, etc.
• Create and update rotating bulletin display that highlights heritage months, writing contests, and paid opportunities, and more
• Develop monthly newsletters that summarizes the program’s progress and notable highlights for teachers and students
• Assist with Writers’ Room volunteer coordination, including managing email communication and tracking attendance; developing and co-lead pre-brief and debrief conversations
• Assist with data collection, analysis, and results-sharing associated with the Writers’ Room, including tracking student visits and hours, administering annual writing assessment, distributing student and teacher feedback surveys, and participating in biannual team-wide reports
• Support publishing project design cycle, from ideation to the manuscript all the way through to the book release party
• Co-lead Student Editorial Board for each publication project, ensuring students have the opportunity to inform book content, cover and interior design, and title selection
• Communicate project progress to staff supervisor and seek counsel when help is needed to execute goals
• Assist in the execution of journalism club, supporting instruction and building journalism-related skills of students (e.g. writing, editing, interviewing, etc)
• Support organization-wide summer programming
• Provide support at select outreach and fundraising events, including nights and weekends on rare occasions
• Support Writers’ Room Manager with administrative tasks and the upkeep and beautification of the Writers' Room, as needed

Benefits

• flexible work from home options
• generous paid time off (including 15 PTO days, accrued sick leave, 13 paid holidays, 6 Summer Fridays, and an organization wide two-week winter break)
• health, dental, and vision insurance (826 Boston covers 80% of premiums)
• parental leave
• paid sabbaticals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed