New Possibilities Youth Program Camp Instructor
Part Time • Selma
Benefits:
- 401(k)
Job Description: Provide academic support to elementary school students in the New Possibilities Youth Program, providing academic learning support, adult leadership, and behavior modeling. The position reports to the Chief Program Officer through the Education Coordinator.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Academic Support
- Assist students with academic work
- Apply hands-on learning techniques, games, etc. to reinforce academic skills
- Read to or take turns reading with students giving examples of good reading skills
- Activities
- Oversee projects and experiential learning to reinforce learning and create interest and excitement
- Actively lead planned field trips ensuring proper behavior
- Supervision
- Follow, maintain and adjust a weekly plan for academics and activities in coordination with the Education Coordinator
- Oversee students during pre-session snack or the Community Center
- Oversee students in any use of outside activity time
- Oversee daily dismissal, ensuring that no student is released to an adult other than one pre-registered as cleared for that student’s pick up
- Ensure that the classroom is tidied and ready for other programs at the end of each session
Characteristics
- Unquestionable integrity and honesty
- Be firm, but caring. Set and follow boundaries. Children want and need boundaries.
- Enthusiastic about each child daily, interacting with kindness and encouragement, show you believe in and respect them.
- Be flexible, willing to take the children on trips an interact with children and presenters while away.
- Be open to the children’s feedback. Adjust to reasonable request
- Committed to improving the education and lives of the poorest of the poor and to the future of Selma
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Some technology skills – to help children with assignments
- Be active with children – not at a desk
- Creative and self-motivated. If something is not working with the children that day – improvise
Compensation: $15.00 per hour
Edmundite Missions has served the poorest of the poor since 1937 and continues to address the challenge of systemic poverty prevalent in Selma and in the Black Belt region of Alabama. We believe that each person is made in the image of God, imparting dignity to every person we serve. Our programs the most urgent needs of the community while also promoting the empowerment of people by achieving poverty eradication through educational and employment opportunities. We continually innovate to ensure both the short and long-term success of our fight against poverty.