Freedom School Junior Servant Leader

The Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) is a partner with the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program. The STEM Freedom School program seeks to empower you to change our world through science. Junior Servant Leaders are responsible for assisting the Servant Leader Intern in the classroom, while also providing support and assistance to individual students or small groups to help them better understand the content and help them to complete assignments. A Junior Servant Leader also supervises students outside the classroom during breakfast, harambee, lunchtime, field trips, and/or recess. This is a summer only position that works primarily offsite at partner schools, with occasional meetings at the Science Museum of Minnesota.

This is a seasonal summer position.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Serve as a positive role model for all scholars. 
2. Support supervision and maintain the safety of scholars. 
3. Maintain a professional decorum. 
4. Assist in set up, management and break down classroom space. 
5. Engage a maximum of 10 scholars per class in the Integrated Reading Curriculum, Harambee, or afternoon STEMJustice activities. 
6. Attend all required training sessions. 
7. Work with site staff to ensure that all program components are implemented with fidelity. 
8. Support classroom teachers in gathering materials and engaging young people in activity. 
9. Report any issues or concerns regarding program operation to the classroom teacher.
10. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Competencies: 

1. Communication: Expresses oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others and ensures that information is shared with others who should be informed. 
2. Collaboration: Develops, maintains, and strengthens partnerships with others inside or outside the organization who can provide information, assistance, and support. 
3. Customer Service: Demonstrates an understanding of the SMM mission by ensuring that their own interactions with internal and external customers consistently support the mission. 
4. Fostering an Inclusive Community: Contributes to a museum environment, and people, that reflect and respond to the diverse needs and cultures of our community (internal and external). 
5. Results Orientation: Focuses on providing a best in class visitor experience through work outcomes by meeting personal and organizational work objectives.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Education: Currently enrolled high school student. High school diploma or equivalent, some college preferred.
2. Experience: 
   • Working directly with youth from communities underrepresented in STEM
   • Utilizing and teaching STEM content for academic or leisure purposes 
   • As a mentor, staff or family member supporting youth with positive self-development 
   • Framing science, technology, engineering and math with a social justice lens
3. Work Environment: Ability to transport self to offsite locations and the Science Museum of Minnesota.

Compensation: $15.97/hour 

The job duties describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position and is not an exhaustive list. For some positions, detailed procedures may be outlined in supplemental documents.

We exist to turn on the science and inspire learning, inform policy and improve lives. We envision a world in which all people have the power to use science to make lives better. We value science as an essential literacy and strive for inclusion inside and out so that our museum and our people reflect and respond to the diverse needs and cultures of our community. It is the museum’s policy and practice to hire and promote qualified job seekers from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. 

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