Personal Finance Educator

3 weeks ago

New York, United States The Fly Initiative Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

About:

The Financial Literacy Youth Initiative (FLY) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth with the knowledge, skills, and experiences needed to ensure financial stability and socioeconomic well-being. FLY values experiential learning and features a holistic multi-generational approach to financial wellness and understanding personal finance concepts. FLY is the ONLY culturally responsive, experiential financial literacy program offering the gold standard in personal finance education.


Job Description:

Deliver the gold standard in culturally responsive, experiential personal finance education programming to youth and young adults.


Duties:

Program Facilitation

• Teach FLY's curriculum to high school students at participating FLY partner sites. Curriculum includes, but is not limited to, topics in career planning, goal setting and attainment, taxes, banking fundamentals, managing credit, financing higher education, savings, investing, insurance selection, and developing conscious spending plans

• Continually evaluate FLY's curriculum for effectiveness and improvement

• Provide FLY-specific academic support to students outside of class as necessary


Community Support

• Curate and facilitate personal finance workshops for community-based organizations serving youth and young adults from under resourced communities

• Evaluate curriculum for equity, inclusivity, and accessibility

• Adapt instruction as needed to align with participants' particular needs, and goals


Additional Expectations

• Educators will play a pivotal role and will need to be interactive with all program areas, influencing marketing materials, aligning classroom goals with Diversity & Inclusion efforts, defining the needs for Policy & Advocacy initiatives, and assisting with needs-based analysis for grant writing purposes.

• Participate in and periodically lead FLY events


Qualifications and Requirements:

• Minimum Educational Background: Matriculated undergraduate junior or senior or completed Associates Degree

• Previous experience working or volunteering with youth

• Previous experience and comfortability facilitating in group settings

• Commitment to FLY's Theory of Change to ending Generational Poverty

• Growth Mindset--for self and others

• Passion for working with Youth

• Commitment to working with families and community members

• Commitment to engaging and cultivating diversity, inclusivity, belonging, equity, and justice among students, families, communities, and institutions

• A desire and capacity to collaborate across teams and stakeholders to cultivate social change

• Knowledge of office management systems and procedures

• Working knowledge of office equipment, like printers and fax machines

• Proficiency in MS Office

• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize work

• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills


Organizational Culture

● Evaluate, design, and implement organization-wide diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice policies and procedures that elevate FLY's mission and vision

● Research, evaluate, and promote diversity and inclusion professional development opportunities and trainings for FLY staff and Fellows that are inclusive of intersecting identities and backgrounds

● Cultivate a network of relationships and partnerships with other Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion professionals to collaborate and bring innovation and best practices to FLY's programming

● Collaborate with FLY team to establish critical feedback loops to analyze program strengths, new opportunities, and growth areas by garnering students' and families' voices in an equitably, intentionally inclusive process

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