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About the Role

The Activity Specialist will facilitate workshops for children in grades K-8, ensuring their safety and engagement. The program offers academic support, artistic, athletic, and cultural enrichment, therapeutic services, and family involvement opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Work with groups of 15-20 students.
• Facilitate sessions in dance, music, leadership, sports, ESL, visual arts, and computer.
• Integrate young people’s life experiences and thematic curriculum.
• Create an environment of active and genuine learning using diverse teaching strategies.
• Incorporate career awareness activities, field trips, and guest speakers into projects.
• Conduct community outreach and involvement.
• Write, revise, and implement lesson plans using the DYCD framework for director approval.
• Monitor and report on students’ progress throughout the activity term.

Requirements

• Previous experience teaching or facilitating workshops in one of the subject areas.
• High School Diploma or HSE required.
• Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Attend planning, supervisor, and evaluation sessions.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to commit for the entire school year.
• Must be over 18 years old.
• Highly energetic, dynamic, and positive.

Location

• New York, NY

Work Type

• Partial Year
• Part Time

Education Level

• High School Diploma or HSE

Salary/Compensations

• $30.00 - $34.00 Hourly

About the Company

• University Settlement partners with over 40,000 New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn to build healthy, stable, and remarkable lives.
• For nearly 140 years, we have fought poverty and systemic inequality by building effective social services in collaboration with our neighbors.
• Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening deeply, and creating space for responsive cooperation.
• We build community strength by helping people of all ages grow and pursue their dreams.
• Our programs include early childhood education, youth development, healthy aging, mental health and wellness, English classes for adult immigrants, community centers, and the arts.
• University Settlement has been providing a variety of effective and strengths-based community-based programs for children grades K-8th.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community.
• We support a broadly diverse team that will contribute to our organization.
• We are an equal opportunity employer for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.