Overview

 Youth Leadership Specialist 

New York City 

Global Kids, Inc. seeks dynamic, hard-working, and creative individuals to join a special team passionate about education, social action, and advancing human rights to create and implement interactive human rights, global education, and leadership development curriculum in high schools across NYC. We are seeking to fill multiple full-time positions to start on September 6th. 

Responsibilities 

Program Responsibilities 

  • Coordinate, develop, and co-facilitate interactive, experiential workshops and special activities for GK’s programs.  
  • Collaborate with GK staff and youth to generate new program ideas focusing on global/local issues and meeting the goals of the contracted initiatives. 
  • Develop relevant content and curriculum on global issues and 21st-century skills while supporting social and emotional learning. 
  • Work with other staff and students to implement the annual Global Kids Youth Conference and other special projects.  
  • Lead occasional training sessions for other youth, educators, and Global Kids staff. 
  • Implement student outreach, recruitment, and retention strategies throughout the year. 
  • Help to support partner school’s goals and functions. 
  • Build positive relationships with multiple stakeholders such as students, families, school personnel, policymakers, and other community members. 
  • Occasional evenings, weekends, and overnights with long-distance travel required (annual overnight or multi-night youth retreat, college trips, GK events). 

Administrative Responsibilities 

  • Collaborate with school personnel on logistics for program implementation (e.g., space, security needs, permits, trip forms/permission slips). 
  • Collect, input, and review attendance, evaluation, and other data related to projects and student progress. 
  • Maintain necessary documentation/case files, program data entry, and records. 
  • Complete administrative tasks related to maintaining assigned GK equipment, fiscal procedures (fund requests and expense reports), and other tasks. 

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor’s Degree is required. 
  • Understanding and willingness to learn about a wide array of NYC social service resources for youth and families. 
  • Experience using interactive, experiential learning strategies, counseling and conflict resolution skills, and youth development/leadership strategies with middle school and/or high school youth. 
  • Experience and enthusiasm for designing and leading educational workshops that build on each other. 
  • Commitment to and understanding of working in culturally diverse settings and using antiracist pedagogical practices 
  • Experience working in or closely with NYC public schools in schools a plus. 
  • Knowledge of and passion for global issues, political science, history, education, social justice, and human rights. 
  • Excellent facilitation, consensus-building, and interpersonal skills. 
  • The initiative, creativity, willingness to learn, and ability to manage multiple tasks independently. 
  • Strong communication, writing, organizational, and technology skills (Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, Zoom). 
  • International experience a plus 
  • Fluency in other languages is a plus (particularly Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, and South Asian). 

 

Salary/Benefits: This full-time position with an annual salary of $40,000 – 45,000. GK also offers affordable medical benefits, dental and life insurance, paid holidays, vacation time off, personal days, sick time, and possibilities for travel. GK staff can also access retail discounts through our Professional Employer Organization (PEO). 

 To apply, please select the following link.

https://globalkids.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=57&source=aWQ9MjY%3D

Global Kids, Inc is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity. We do not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment based on race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, citizenship, mental or physical handicap or disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. We continue to support and promote equal employment opportunity, human dignity, and diversity. 

 

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