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About the Role

Mary McDowell Friends School (MMFS) seeks a part-time Lower School Afterschool Coordinator to provide daily operational support, activity execution, and site coordination for the Lower School Afterschool Program, ensuring a warm, organized, and engaging environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Director to update bi-annual program materials, family handbooks, and registration systems.
• Collaborate with afterschool teachers and student assistants to ensure a safe environment and shared expectations.
• Lead structured Clubhouse activities and create a quiet, productive environment for student homework completion.
• Consult continuously with Lower School classroom teachers, counselors, and administrators on student well-being and behavioral needs.
• Plan and implement daily and weekly enrichment workshops, introducing innovative activity ideas tailored to Lower School students.
• Order food, snacks, and instructional materials as needed, keeping accurate records of inventory and supply requests.
• Manage daily student attendance tracking, verify schedule changes, and direct the safe dismissal of all program participants.
• Observe afterschool enrichment classes regularly to ensure quality engagement, support classroom management, and offer hands-on activity support.
• Communicate proactively with parents regarding program schedules, daily routines, and student progress reports.
• Coordinate with the school nurse or certified health worker for students with medical conditions.
• Participate actively in professional development and MMFS workshops.
• Participate in recurring supervisory meetings with the Director of Afterschool to report on site logistics, share feedback, and align operational goals.
• Understand and participate in all school-wide diversity and equity initiatives.
• Examine administrative practice through the lens of race, identity, equity, and privilege.
• Provide an equitable framework for leadership decisions.
• Support a school culture that allows for social identities to feel welcome.

Requirements

• Ability to maintain the physical capacity to navigate the school environment and ensure the safety of students.
• Regularly required to speak and listen clearly.
• Good communication skills are essential.
• Intermittently requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, climbing, and lifting, transporting, or supporting students.
• Frequently lift and/or move items up to 40 pounds.
• Ascends and descends stairs to navigate to different rooms throughout the building.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Ability to maintain the highest levels of discretion and confidentiality.

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Child-centered with excellent organizational skills.
• Customer-service approach to employee and parent relations.
• Familiarity with new technologies; G Suite and Veracross a plus.
• Deep knowledge of child development, learning differences, resources, and current trends in the field.

Location

• Brooklyn, NY

Work Type

• Part-time
• Non-exempt
• Ten-month position
• Follows the academic calendar
• Monday through Friday, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Experience Level

• Commensurate with experience

Education Level

• BA in education or related field
• Special education experience a plus
• Experience in special education, private sector, or Independent School system is a plus.

Salary/Compensations

• $30.00 - $35.00 per hour

About the Company

• Mary McDowell Friends School (MMFS) is located in downtown Brooklyn, NY.
• We encourage employees to bring their whole selves to work.
• We recognize, appreciate, celebrate, and honor our diverse community as we build an awareness of who each individual is and who we are collectively.
• Applicants who enhance the diversity of the school's faculty and administration are strongly encouraged to apply.

Equal Opportunity

• Employment at Mary McDowell Friends School is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, familial status, or any other category protected by the law.
• Mary McDowell Friends School’s policy of non-discrimination extends to all employment practices, including but not limited to hiring, transfer, promotion, training, compensation, benefits, layoffs, and termination.