Youth Leadership Specialist

Youth Leadership Specialist Job Description

New York City

Global Kids (GK) educates inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future. Global Kids Inc. is seeking individuals passionate about leadership and development to join our team dedicated to education social action and the advancement of human rights. We are looking for individuals who are eager to create and implement interactive human rights global education and leadership development curricula in high schools across New York City. Successful candidates will be working with various Global kids partner schools.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the education sector and inspire the next generation of leaders. If you possess a strong commitment to education a desire to promote social change and the skills to engage and motivate young minds we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

Program Responsibilities

• Coordinate develop and co-facilitate interactive experiential workshops and special activities for GKs 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 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 the partner schools goals and functions.

• Build and maintain 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 (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 as well as 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:

• Understanding of 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-age 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 and social justice and human rights.

• Excellent facilitation consensus-building and interpersonal skills.

• 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 is a plus

• Fluency in other languages is a plus (particularly Spanish Haitian Creole Arabic and South Asian languages).

Salary/Benefits: This full-time position comes with an annual salary of $45000 47000. GK also offers affordable medical benefits dental and life insurance as well as paid holidays vacation time off personal days sick time and possibilities for travel. GK staff also have access to retail discounts through our Professional Employer Organization (PEO).

Global Kids Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity and 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 in all forms.

Required Experience:

Manager