Ost Teen Reach Coordinator

2 months ago


Chicago, United States Carole Robertson Center for Learning Full time

The OST Teen Reach Coordinator
- facilitates high quality programming for middle school students in the Albany Park Neighborhood. Staff maintains a physically and emotionally enriching environment with clear and consistent limits and expectations. Staff plans and facilitates project-based activities, helps build social-emotional skills and communicates with local school teachers and families.

**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY TASKS**:

- Plan and Facilitate engaging activities following the best practice Youth Program Quality methods
- Provide high quality supervision that engages and maintains the safety of all youth in the program
- Plan, and initiate playshop clubs that inspire youth to explore new hobbies and learn new skills
- Respect and honor the diversity and unique skills and talents of each child and family.
- Promote a growth mindset for every child
- Recruit new students and maintain program enrollment
- Assist with homework, identifying any strengths and challenging areas and communicating those with parents and teachers
- Collaborate with fellow mentors to plan and execute events and outings
- Maintain program records for your class, including, but not limited to, classroom attendance, meal counts, child assessments, accident reports, referrals for social services, and anecdotal notes related to health, peer relationships, individualized goals etc.
- Maintain safety and create a welcoming environment for all youth and families using group
- established norms and expectations.
- Communicate successes and incidents with parents and set goals around academics and behaviors
- Maintain systems to recognize positive behaviors and build social emotional skills in all youth
- Create and follow up with action plans with parents and youth to correct any negative, unsafe, or disruptive behaviors
- Ensure all behavior and goal setting discussions between staff/volunteers and youth/families is strengths based, youth centric and solution focused
- Ensure all supplies, classroom, common use areas and playground are maintained and left better than the way they were found
- Maintain overall professional personal appearance adhering to the guidelines of CRCL
- Participate in staff meetings, training sessions, conferences, workshops, and other professional development activities
- Demonstrate respect, understanding and patience to all youth and adults from all cultural backgrounds, with an appreciation for their interests, creativity, capabilities, beauty, and means of expression.
- Must be able to resolve problems, handle conflict, and make effective decisions under pressure.
- Ability to formulate lesson plans, prepare written materials, and articulate lesson plans.
- Comply and adhere to all compliance and licensure standards, including local, state and national regulatory entities
- Ability to frequently sit, stand, or bend, for prolonged periods.
- Physical agility to attend to the activity levels of youth.
- Perform other duties as assigned

**COMPETENCIES**
- **Values—**ability to demonstrate in word and action the Center’s core values and deep commitment to the mission, vision, priorities and needs of the organization and the diverse communities it serves.
- **Inclusion—**values all people for their unique talents and perspectives and promotes practices that promote and provide equal access to opportunities and resources that enable employees to contribute fully to the organization’s success.
- **Relationships—**ability to build authentic relationships in the service of enhancing individual and team performances to support the Center’s work.
- **Change Capacity**—leads self and others by demonstrating the ability to pivot and respond to unpredictable, disruptive, and ambiguous situations. Develop processes, tools, and techniques used to advance desired organizational outcomes and manage change effectively.
- **Results-Proven Track Record**—demonstrable ability to exceed goals with a bottom-line orientation; evidence of the ability to consistently make good decisions through a combination of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; high level of business acumen including successful P&L management; the ability to balance the delivery of programs against the realities of a budget; and problem solving, project management, and creative resourcefulness.
- **Strategic Vision and Agilit**y**—ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into the organizational plan.
- **Innovation**—ability to form ideas that are new and enhanced, while introducing constructive ways of looking at problems that foster creativity interdisciplinary/cross-functional work.

**REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**:

- At least two years of experience leading programming for teens and/or preteens; and/or
- A bachelor’s degree in education, social work, recreation, or child development.

Carole Robertson Center for Learning provides equal employment opportunities t



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