What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Support Specialist position at Girls at Work, Inc.?
Position details
Term Date: 03/07/2025 - 02/05/2026 Note: start and end dates may be flexible.
Location: Manchester, NH
Focus Area: Youth
Are you looking to grow and empower young girls on a supportive team in thriving Manchester NH? Join the Girls at Work team, empowering the next generation of leaders through woodworking with power tools!
Girls at Work Inc. is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering under resourced girls through the use of power tools. We provide summer camp and afterschool classes where girls build small woodworking projects to take home while also supplying them with necessities like groceries, and sneakers to take home. We are located in Manchester, NH’s Amoskeag Millyard that houses the SEE Science Museum and Millyard Museum. To learn more about Girls at Work, please visit our website: www.girlswork.org.
Member Duties : Our Americorps member will act as an assistant instructor, supporting our main instructors in our woodworking classes during our afterschool programing and summer camp. We strive to have each girl within the program leave feeling confident and capable of themselves. Within their position they will not only aim to build up our girls but be empowered by the experience of seeing the transformational changes each girl undergoes after receiving our programing. Our AmeriCorps member will help serve over 150 girls ages 8-14 local to the Manchester NH area, and will focus on deeper mentoring and SEL development with 10 – 15 of those girls. They will receive support from all staff but specifically work with our Program Director, Operations Director and Executive Director. They will shadow our instructors and work with Executive Director and program directors to receive hands on trainings.