The Full PLAY Instructor

Description

About the Role.

With leadership from Team Captains, The Full PLAY Instructor is responsible for providing high-quality after-school programs for youth and their families in a structured and supportive environment. Working with a team, the TFP Instructor facilitates enrichment, recreation, educational opportunities, and fun experiences for students, including arts and crafts, outdoor games, and homework support. The position requires someone who is passionate about youth development, has experience working with elementary and/or middle school-aged children, and possesses strong problem-solving skills, flexibility, and punctuality. This is a part-time position with flexible hours and requires a LiveScan background check and evidence of a negative TB test within the last 24 months.

The TFP Instructors work with students from the last bell at the end of the school day until the latest pickup time of 6 p.m., every day.

Requirements

The Full PLAY Instructor is responsible for providing high-quality after-school programs for youth and their

families in a structured and supportive environment. Working with a team, the TFP Instructor facilitates

enrichment, recreation, educational opportunities, and fun experiences for students, including arts and

crafts, outdoor games, and homework support. The position requires someone who is passionate about

youth development, has experience working with elementary and/or middle school-aged children, and

possesses strong problem-solving skills, flexibility, and punctuality. This is a part-time position with flexible

hours and requires a LiveScan background check and evidence of a negative TB test within the last 24

months.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the safety of our students which includes the following: maintaining appropriate student-to-instructor ratios, maintaining the schedule for all students, monitoring students to ensure compliance with TFP rules and prevent accidents, cleaning, maintaining and ensuring proper use of TFP facilities and equipment, reporting and recording details of incidents, such as accidents or rule violations, to parents and TFP staff, being knowledgeable of all emergency procedures and safety guidelines and enforcing TFP rules.
• Facilitating and supporting enrichment, recreation, educational opportunities, and fun experiences for students.
• Implementing supplemental enrichment activities such as arts and crafts, outdoor games, in-house and outsourced enrichment classes, art, homework support, and guiding student behavior, social, academic, and career development.
• Developing and refining enrichment activities such as classes, demonstrations, challenges, and just plain fun.
• Performing other duties as assigned by the Team Captain/Team Coaches.

We are seeking team members who are willing and able to participate in all facets of the program, and who:

• Are creative, professional, and serious about providing meaningful after-school opportunities for youth.
• Dedicated to nurturing the the development of whole child.
• Have strong classroom management or group management skills
• Demonstrate initiative while keeping the needs of the students in mind.
• Are committed to constantly engaging with students throughout the day.
• Have elementary and/or middle school aged classroom experience or have After School and/or Summer Program experience.
• Are fair, responsible, dependable, and consistent.
• Have patience, compassion, and kindness.
• Are flexible, proactive, punctual, and able to make a commitment to work throughout the entire school year.

This is a part-time position: 10-25 hours per week, 12:00 or 2:00 – 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday,

starting immediately. All incoming employees must submit to a LiveScan background check, and must

show proof of a negative TB test within the last 24 months.