YOUTH GROUP FACILITATOR

Boys & Girls Club• Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, PR, PR

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About The Position

The Youth Group Facilitator manages social intervention, leadership, and socio-emotional programs to help participants reach their potential. The role facilitates workshops, presentations, and learning activities focused on developing participants’ social, emotional, and leadership skills.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, education, or a related field.
One or more years of experience working with communities, students, or adolescents.
Knowledge of English language structure and content, including word meanings and spelling, composition, and grammar.
Knowledge of customer and personal service principles and processes, including assessing needs, meeting service quality standards, and evaluating customer satisfaction.
Knowledge of curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and measuring training effects.
Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Knowledge of therapy and counseling principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and professional orientation and guidance.
Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Ability to provide personal assistance, emotional support, or other personal care to others.
Ability to provide guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems, or process-related issues.
Ability to understand the implications of new information for current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Responsibilities

Plan and facilitate learning activities that develop skills such as decision-making, emotional intelligence, violence prevention, socio-emotional awareness, trauma awareness, and crisis management.
Implement and assess social pillar program initiatives based on the club’s service levels and needs, including programs such as Keystone, SMART Leaders, Triple Play, Torch Club, Passport to Man Hood, and/or Girl Circle.
Facilitate Youth of the Year module seminars and activities, if applicable.
Sponsor extracurricular activities such as clubs, student organizations, community service, volunteer activities, and academic contests.
Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, guest-speaker visits, and other experiential activities, and guide participants’ learning from those activities.
Collaborate with coworkers to plan and schedule learning activities suited to participants’ needs and designed to promote leadership, social, and socio-emotional skills.
Use computers, audiovisual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
Manage participant profiles, documentation, folders, and reports required by programs.
Establish and ensure compliance with behavior and safety rules to maintain order among participants.
Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injury and damage.
Evaluate and observe participants’ performance, behavior, social and emotional development, and physical and psychological health.
Stay informed about trends in leadership, education, emotions, trauma, behavioral and cognitive therapy, social development, and relevant subject specialties.
Perform other tasks requested by the supervisor.