Palatine TEENS After-School Enrichment Youth Development Professional

Description

Site Placement: Can change

Position: Part-time (20 hours) Monday-Friday during the school year, and schedule to be determined for Summer Camp

General Overview:

Responsible for planning, delivering, and overseeing fun, meaningful and compelling program experiences for school-age youth members. Program experiences include sports/athletics, creative arts, technology, education based, and character building and other hands-on activities based on YDP background, interests, and skills.

Requirements

Responsibilities.

• Facilitating Club programs, activities and services that prepare youth for success and create a club environment which facilitates growth and achievement in children.
• Supervising and encouraging youth members to participate in a variety of program areas and activities which are called experiences, and receive instruction and constructive feedback to further develop skills.
• Providing guidance to members to assist them in making appropriate choices in educational, personal, physical, social, emotional, vocational, and spiritual needs.
• Effectively communicate standards of our program and maintain experience areas safe, diligently sanitized, and well maintained within state guidelines.
• Documenting reporting data, including attendance and program participation on a daily basis.
• Maintaining a healthy and safe environment, ensuring facilities, equipment and supplies are maintained.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to anticipate, identify and solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form. To accurately complete all required paperwork. To professionally handle and/or get help to resolve conflict. Ability to follow instructions as given and/or directed by supervisor.

By signing below, you are acknowledging your responsibilities and understand that any records of members and families are to be always kept confidential. If confidentiality is not maintained, it can lead to termination.