Group Leader Tutor/Mentor

Employment Opportunity (Part-time, Full-time) See below to apply.
Job Title: Group Leader Tutor/Mentor
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Non-exempt

Summary: Recognizing that Out of School Time programs are critical to a child's academic success in school, the SCHOONER Program provides students with a range of activities including homework assistance, writing, science exploration, physical education and field trips. The SCHOONER Program serves children ages 5 to 12 years. The group leader position will work with the individual children and groups as designated by program needs.

Responsibilities:

A. Establish and maintain safe, healthy learning environment.

1. Ensures the safety and health of children at all times:
a. Checks child’s well-being upon their arrival.
b. Maintains an accurate children’s attendance list.
c. Implements system in place to keep unauthorized persons from taking children from the program.
d. Maintains appropriate supervision of children at all times.
e. Ensures that the staff/child ratio for the group to which they are assigned meets state Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) supervision requirements at all times and notifies the Site Director or their representative regarding the need for additional staff.
f. Provides a safe, hazard-free environment, including reporting conditions of indoor and outdoor facilities, equipment, and material which may be dangerous or unsafe and taking appropriate steps to prevent children from using indoor and outdoor facilities, equipment, and material which may be dangerous and unsafe.
g. Provides learning activities in the daily program that focus on health and safety.
h. Administers first aid and CPR when necessary.
i. Reports known or suspected instances of child abuse and neglect in accordance with agency policy and procedures and state law.

2. Prepares and maintains a stimulating, attractive, clean, orderly, and inviting program environment and keeps equipment sanitary and in good condition.

3. Assists with the food program, including, but not limited to, modeling sound eating patterns on the job.

4. Serves as bus monitor as assigned, ensuring the safety and well-being of children and other passengers being transported:
a. Enforces safe riding practices, including, but not limited to, ensuring the use of car seats and/or seat belts.
b. Maintains appropriate supervision of children being transported.
c. Assists those children, parents, and other passengers who require assistance in entering and leaving the vehicle.
d. Releases children only to persons designated by the parents in a written authorization.
e. Communicates in a timely, accurate manner with program staff and children’s families.

B. Advance physical and intellectual competence.

1. Plans and implements a program of developmentally-appropriate activities to meet the needs of the children in their care and in accordance with the agency’s policies, procedures, and philosophy. Ensures a balance of staff-led and child-initiated activities, allowing children long blocks of time to plan and carry out their self- selected projects. Facilitates child-directed activities by discussing what materials and other support they need for these activities.

2. Manages daily routines and transitions enthusiastically and creatively and in ways that meaningfully involve children in age- and individually-appropriate ways.

3. Encourages children’s developing language and communication skills by talking with them throughout the program day, speaking clearly and listening to their responses, encouraging them to describe their projects and ideas, and providing opportunities for children to talk with one other. Helps children to acquire the English-language competence, while supporting children’s learning in their home language or dialect.

C. Support social and emotional development and provide positive guidance.

1. Shows respect, consideration, warmth, and affection to the children in their care.

Notices and attends promptly and directly to children’s needs, wants, and messages.

Plans experiences to alleviate children’s fears and to reduce stress. Helps each child to know, accept, and take pride in themselves and to develop self-control and independence.

2. Helps newly enrolled children adjust to the program by introducing them to the other children in care and adults, acquainting them with the program environment and daily routines, and being sensitive to their individual needs. In this spirit and in accordance with EEC standards, prepares the child for termination from the program in a way that is consistent with their ability to understand.

3. Uses positive strategies to address behavioral challenges and encourages appropriate behaviors.

4. Acknowledges and affirms each child’s home culture and language/dialect as part of the shared culture of the program so that children feel acceptance, pride, and a sense of belonging. Integrates multicultural, non-sexist, and other anti-bias materials into the everyday program environment.

D. Establish positive and productive relationships with families.

1. Shows respect and consideration for each family served by the program, recognizing that each family has certain strengths and attempting to build upon those strengths.

2. Communicates regularly with parents to promote mutual understanding, including, but not limited to:

(a) Explaining how their children are being educated and cared for;

(b) Offering specific ideas for fostering children’s healthy development at home (e.g., child guidance, learning activities);

(c) Informing parents about day-to-day happenings and special events such as field trips that shape their child’s experience;

(d) Informing them about injuries and any observed changes in their child’s health or eating habits; and

(e) Meeting with parents to discuss their child’s progress and to address specific problems and concerns.

3. Encourages parent visitation and other involvement in the program.

4. Participates in planning and conducting parent meetings.

E. Ensure a well-run, purposeful program responsive to participant needs.

1. Maintains appropriate, accurate, and current records in conformity with agency policy and state requirements. Such records shall include, but not be limited to, children’s attendance, documentation on incidents, and observations that generate concern regarding a child’s safety and well-being.

2. Shares developmental and other information about children with other persons who are directly related to the child’s care and education. Maintains confidentiality requirement in regard to children’s records.

3. Interprets the program in a friendly, informative, and professional manner to parents, visitors, and new staff. Projects a positive image of the agency and its programs both at their work site and in the community at large.

4. Provides role model of positive adult relationships. Works cooperatively and respectfully with other staff members where the agency’s activities, policies, and plans are concerned:
a. Engages in a team approach to planning and conducting the program.
b. Communicates agency policy and procedural changes and other directives to other staff assigned to the group.
c. Offers positive direction and support to the Assistant Leader, substitutes, supplementary staff, and volunteers with whom they work, while maintaining a basic standard of staff/volunteer performance that accords with agency policies, state standards, and recognized principles regarding the appropriate care and education of children.
d. Uses appropriate channels and designated staff members to constructively address issues and concerns.
e. Attends staff meetings and in-service training sessions.

5. Performs other related duties.

6. Discloses to their supervisor or the Executive Director any indictment or arrest for off-duty activity that would show up in a criminal records check.

7. Is dependable, complying with agency policy and procedures regarding work attendance.

F. Maintain a commitment to professionalism.

1. Evaluates own performance to identify needs for professional growth.

2. Participates in opportunities for professional and personal development to improve competence for the benefit of clients and families.

Requirements:

1. Minimum education and experience:
High school diploma or GED (general equivalency diploma) strongly preferred. Group Leader qualifications, as defined in

EEC standards for school-age programs. Completion of a college-level course in child growth and development.

2. Licenses and certifications:

 Current certification in first aid and CPR preferred; certification within six months of employment required.

 Satisfactory Criminal Offender Record Inquiry (CORI) results.

 Evidence of compliance with agency and state health requirements.

3. Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
a. Knowledge of:

 Program goals and objectives.

 Program regulations, standards, and reporting requirements.

 Developmentally-appropriate practice.

 Positive child guidance procedures and practices.

 Cultural competency.

b. Skill in:

 Verbal communication, including, but not limited to:

Providing information about child development to families, discussing
a child’s progress, problems, and accomplishments with their families and
others who have educational responsibility for the child, and interpreting the
agency’s philosophy, goals, and programs to families and other visitors.

Fluency in a second language a plus.

Understanding and carrying out verbal instructions.

Written communication, including, but not limited to:

Preparing children’s progress reports, recording observations about children, writing notes to families, and completing forms. Literacy in a second language a plus.

Understanding and carrying out written instructions.

c. Ability to:

Respond sensitively to children, families, staff, and other persons of diverse experiential, educational, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.

Supervise, mentor, and support other regular staff, substitutes, interns, and volunteers. Completion of a college-level supervision, administration, and/or leadership course strongly preferred.

 Promote a cooperative work environment.

 Exercise good judgment in unexpected or emergency situations.

4. Working conditions and physical effort:

a. Work requires frequent exercise of moderate physical effort, including, but not limited to:

Stoop, squat, sit (including sitting on the floor and on child-sized furniture), or otherwise closely interact with children. Bend, reach, stretch, and participate in play and other activities, both inside and outside.

Accompany and quickly access all areas where children may be located, including classrooms, bathrooms, steps or stairways, entrances, buses, outside play areas, or field trip locations.

Walk at a moderate pace on a variety of surfaces in the context of taking children on neighborhood walks, field trips, and other activities.

Lift children, equipment, and supplies weighing up to 75 pounds.

b. Physical ability to safely conduct an active learning program for children, including, but not limited to:

Hear and see at a distance required for outdoor supervision of children and to maintain safety.

Move quickly to supervise and assist children.

React quickly to prevent injury or harm to a child or, on an infrequent basis, to safeguard children during an emergency, including threat of fire, disaster, or imminent danger. Emergency response may require running, lifting, and/or carrying children.

Wash hands frequently.

c. Be absent from work no more often than the typical adult in order to provide continuity of staff relationships with children.

d. Ability to occasionally work outside of normal program operations (e.g., attend staff meetings and training).

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
NorthStar is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and actively seeks persons of color, women, LGBT applicants, and differently-abled persons for this position.

Work Remotely

• No

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $16.00 - $17.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• New Bedford, MA 02744: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $16 - $17