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About the Role
The Academic Coach role focuses on guiding assigned students toward academic success by developing positive relationships and facilitating daily sessions that build character, academic, and socio-emotional skills. This position provides one-on-one and small group academic coaching, encouraging self-awareness and responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Provide one-on-one and small group academic coaching sessions
- Support students in setting academic, personal, and career goals, and monitor progress regularly
- Build strong relationships with students, serving as mentors, positive role models, and ally
- Prepare and facilitate activities and workshops for groups
- Assist students with study skills, time management, organization, and test preparation
- Track student grades, attendance and performance
- Collaborate with teachers to identify students who need additional support
- Expose students to college pathways and career exploration
- Organize and lead workshops, field trips, or college tours
- Check in with students and provide support if need be
- Communicate with supervisor about any interventions that may need to be taken
- Work in partnership with classroom teacher to make sure supplies needed are available
- Communicate any changes from Site Coordinator to Classroom Teacher
- Encourage a positive classroom climate for students to be themselves
- All other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Minimum of 1 year of college, B.A./B.S. preferred or 1 year of relevant experience
- Ability to work with youth who perform at different levels in either a classroom or after-school program setting
- Strong ability to demonstrate 3 teaching modalities: visual, auditory, and tactile
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with schools and work in partnership with administrators, teachers, and community partners
- Passion for mentoring young people, promoting youth development practices, and working towards social change
- Excellent cross-cultural communication skills and the ability and willingness to work with economically and culturally diverse clientele from various professional and ethnic backgrounds
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication, patience, diplomacy, and high level of customer service skills
- Ability to think critically, problem-solve and be resourceful
- Embraces cultural differences and is willing to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Must have proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong commitment to the mission of Young Community Developers Inc./100% College Prep and to individuals from diverse populations
- Continuous commitment to improve occupational knowledge
- A college degree or proof of current college enrollment
- Responsible, dependable, honest, and mature
- Friendly, patient, and sensitive to a diversity of students
- Clearance of TB test and fingerprinting are required
- Strong commitment to the mission/vision of Young Community Developers and to individuals from diverse populations and backgrounds. Emphasis on understanding historical and socio-economic impacts within D9 and D10 of San Francisco
- Excellent cross-cultural communication skills and ability and a desire to work with economically and culturally diverse clients
- To best mitigate the spread of disease and protect our staff, it is a condition of employment that all employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Proof of vaccination will be required upon hire and be kept on file for each employee.
Skills
- Mentoring
- Youth development
- Social change advocacy
- Cross-cultural communication
- Interpersonal communication
- Written communication
- Patience
- Diplomacy
- Customer service
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Resourcefulness
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Teamwork
- Independent work
- Study skills
- Time management
- Organization
- Test preparation
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Part Time
- 30 hours per week
- Non-exempt
Experience Level
- 1 year of college, B.A./B.S. preferred or 1 year of relevant experience
Education Level
- Minimum of 1 year of college
- B.A./B.S. preferred
- College degree or proof of current college enrollment
Salary/Compensations
- $24.00 per hour
Benefits
- COVID-19 vaccination required
About the Company
- Established in 1973, YCD is a nonprofit organization serving residents of all ages in San Francisco's underserved communities.
- YCD takes a holistic approach to empower residents through education, workforce development, and social services, aiming to break the cycle of poverty.
- YCD provides employment and training services to around 1,200 community members annually.
- YCD was voted by Non-Profit Times as one of the top 50 best non-profits to work for in the United States.
Equal Opportunity
- Young Community Developers is an “at-will” and Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Applicants and employees shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender (including pregnancy and gender expression) identity, color, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.