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About the Role

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is seeking a passionate and creative Life Skills & Creative Living Activity Specialist to join their middle school team. This role involves teaching students essential life skills that promote independence, responsibility, and creativity, with curriculum potentially including cooking, nutrition, sewing, personal finance, home management, and DIY projects.

Responsibilities

• Supervise all activities to ensure the health, safety and well-being of program participants.
• Teach core life skills including meal planning, food preparation, nutrition, budgeting, and basic financial literacy.
• Introduce students to sewing techniques, basic fashion design, and clothing care.
• Incorporate elements of science (e.g., food science, textile science) into practical lessons.
• Facilitate hands-on DIY projects that encourage problem-solving and creativity.
• Facilitate purposeful activities that foster the development of new skills in youth in an engaging, creative and responsive manner.
• Manage classroom and maintain positive learning environment.
• Build positive relationships with youth and adults and serve as a role model with respect to demeanor, communication and overall attitude.
• Ensure proper care of all spaces and materials, organize room and report any misused or damaged materials to the Program Director.
• Complete and submit in a timely manner all program reports relative to this position, including but not limited to: supply request, lesson plans, incident reports, attendance, and timesheets.
• Assist Program Coordinator with ordering and maintaining equipment and/or supplies.
• Actively participate in training sessions, designated meetings and special events.

Requirements

• Experience in sewing, cooking, design, or DIY crafts.
• Knowledge and understanding of youth development, after school and public education.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and manage multiple priorities, people and projects effectively.
• Experience in providing individualized and group instruction to meet the needs of youth with various level of skills.
• Experience designing and teaching courses to ensure youth success and supports youth-centered learning.

Skills

• Communication
• Flexibility

Location

• Elmhurst, Queens
• New York City

Work Type

• Part-Time
• In-person
• School year (September through June)

Experience Level

• Commensurate with experience and qualifications

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $30-$45 an hour

Benefits

• Access to external opportunities
• Considerable autonomy in designing and implementing new projects and curricula
• Healthy work-life balance
• Generous benefits package

About the Company

• South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is committed to providing its employees opportunities for growth in a supportive community environment.
• SAYA provides its employees a healthy work-life balance in a fast-growing youth development nonprofit.
• SAYA: Belong. Grow. Thrive.
• South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is an inclusive, South Asian-focused 501(c)3 youth development organization.
• Through our innovative, holistic approach, we work toward educational equity by providing opportunities and resources to less privileged New York City youth, ensuring they are empowered academically, emotionally, and socially to become engaged community members.
• Established in 1996, SAYA provides valuable life skills and holistic, impactful programming to underserved New York City youth.
• As one of the first South Asian organizations created in the United States, SAYA is the only organization of its kind in the NYC metropolitan area providing inclusive and secular comprehensive youth development services while centering our community’s experiences.
• Today, SAYA provides programming at eight elementary, middle, and high schools in Queens and Brooklyn, along with our Elmhurst-based community center - serving a growing number of youths across all sites each year.
• A key tenet of our work is cultivating vital social and emotional learning (SEL) skills such as belonging, confidence, and self-efficacy through intentionally designed, research-based curricula.
• Across our organization, services tailored for different age groups include leadership and identity development, academic support that bridges learning gaps, comprehensive college preparation, and activities that nurture creativity and build positive peer connections.

Equal Opportunity

• SAYA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.