Summer School Lead Youth Worker

Summer School Lead Youth Worker Department: Summer School Reports to: Assistant Site Coordinator FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Supervises: 0 Pay: $17.
50 hr Seasonal Summary: The Lead Youth Worker includes assessing young people's needs, connecting them with resources, and fostering a positive team environment.
Additionally, the Lead Youth Worker supports classroom presentations, participating in planned activities/projects, conflict resolution, maintaining confidentiality, and demonstrating organizational skills.
Essential duties and responsibilities: Planning and implementing weekly activities that complement weekly academic lessons and have them approved by the site coordinator during orientation.
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activities related to areas such as health, arts, environment, and sports activities.
Assessing the needs of young people and getting them connected with appropriate resources.
Possess the ability to work in a positive team setting.
Remain on task at all times to ensure the safety of participants and other staff.
Accompany and supervise participants on weekly planned field trips.
Maintain facilities and report any issues/problems/defects on time to the SEP Site Coordinator.
Use provided daily/weekly employee forms (attendance, incident, classroom checklists, lesson plan, supply request, etc.
) and fill them out completely and accurately.
Effectively interact and support the school community.
Assist in classroom presentation for World Fair.
Engage in all planned activities/projects.
Lead by example.
Solve conflicts, maintain confidentiality, and remain open to various ideas and viewpoints.
Attend orientation and training(s).
Demonstrate organizational ability and attention to detail.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Qualifications: Bilingual, English and Spanish, preferred.
Experience in some sort of leadership position leading students.
Availability to work the entire summer program is required.
Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing.
Valid Identification Work Environment This job operates in a school and professional environment.
This role continually uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Guadalupe Centers serves a diverse population, including children, adolescents, and adults, who may have mental or behavioral health problems.
Consequently, all GC staff must demonstrate appropriate daily behavior, appropriate expression of emotions, and appropriate role modeling.
Hostility, aggression, unnecessary or inappropriate physical actions, and inappropriate emotional expression are not acceptable behaviors for our employees.
This position may also be exposed to the outdoors during the summer months and may be exposed to heat, sun, and other factors.
This position will interact with children and may be exposed to noises daily.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, or hear.
The employee is also frequently required to walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 45 pounds.
The employee must sometimes push items of 45 lbs.
such as pushing children on a bike or moving/rearranging furniture.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.
The employee is directly responsible for safety, well-being, and work output.
The position requires the individual to meet multiple demands from several people and interact with the public and other staff.
Equal Opportunity Employer GCI is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, age, sex, gender, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, genetic information, veteran status, service member status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.
Preventing discrimination is the responsibility of every employee in the way employees treat and interact with one another.
Therefore, GCI expects all work relations to be business-like and professional, free of bias, prejudice, harassment, and/or discrimination.
GCI's policy of Equal Opportunity extends to all conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, placement, training, compensation, discipline, transfers, separation, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and promotion.
GCI will not tolerate any discrimination in the workplace, and it is expected that any employee who believes they have been subjected to any practice that appears to be inconsistent with this policy will contact Human Resources.
Improper interference with the ability of GCI's employees to perform their expected job duties is not tolerated.
GCI encourages reporting incidents or concerns regarding discrimination to the Director of Human Resources, so that prompt and constructive action can be taken.
According to this policy, there will be no retaliation or adverse action against an employee for raising an issue or complaint.
The report will be investigated to determine what if any, responsive action is necessary and appropriate.
Any employee found responsible for an inappropriate or discriminatory act will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including separation.