Youth Program Coordinator

Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS) is a multi-service organization in the heart of the Maverick Landing housing development in East Boston. Our mission is to build an equitable community by uplifting and supporting families, promoting community health, and nurturing resident and youth leadership & creativity. We do this by offering wrap around resident services, adult education classes such as ESOL and digital literacy, robust youth and family programming, weekly food distributions, and housing advocacy and support. 

Our team is looking to hire a Youth Program Coordinator to lead in program coordination and youth development in our teens’ makerspace. This role will work with young people ages 14-21, acting as a trusted mentor, coordinating workshops and other program deliverables, creating schedules, and facilitating youth team huddles. The teen makerspace (also known as Maverick Makers Pro) acts as a youth-led social enterprise where young people use equipment like laser printers and Duplo machines to create journals, keychains, and other creative items and sell them to the community. Likewise, youth host weekly kickbacks on Fridays, where kids in the neighborhood can drop in and engage in fun, hands-on activities. The youth coordinator will report to our executive director and will have one part-time junior adult staff reporting to them.  

Responsibilities include: 

• Creating youth schedules and managing attendance in Uattend and BASAB portals 
• Leading youth team huddles and supporting them in setting goals for the week 
• Working with the youth mentorship coordinator to identify community groups and encouraging them to sign up for our youth-led weekly makers workshops 
• Collecting data/demographics on makers workshops attendance 
• Coordinating career development and other life-skills workshops for youth with partner organizations/local workshop facilitators 
• Attend weekly team huddles and report updates on youth programming 
• Have regular one-on-one check-ins with all youth participants to make sure they are getting what they need from programming 

Desired skills:  

• Prior youth work experience in an inner-city environment  
• Community-driven and enthusiastic about working with youth and relationship-building 
• Excellent organizational and time management skills 
• Willingness to learn and grow within the team 
• ​Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Knowledge of trauma-informed practices/strategies
• Bilingual (English & Spanish) is a plus 

This is a full-time, permanent 40-hour/week position. Typical hours are Monday-Friday from 11am-7pm with occasional weekend coverage for events.

Compensation: $24-$29 per hour.

Benefits include

• Health insurance reimbursement
• Retirement match
• Paid Vacation, sick time and Holidays
• FMLA Contributions

If interested, please send a cover letter and resume to William@mlcsboston.org