Site Coordinator

NOTE : This position requires candidates to complete our online application, which can be found at :

https : / / tinyurl.com / YAPSiteCoordinator

Summary :

The Site Coordinator (SC) manages all aspects of their assigned program site(s) to ensure effective service delivery. To accomplish this goal, the SC must : lead a team of at least 6 Youth Leads and support AmeriCorps member participants. SCs establish positive relationships with school personnel, collaborate with other campus-based service providers, effectively engage students and parents and support the peer coordinators as needed in program implementation. This position requires employees to drive to numerous varied community events and training.

Primary Responsibilities :

Site Management :

• In consultation with Youth Action Project (YAP) programming team, create and implement after-school programming designed to create pathways to careers with sustainable incomes by facilitating academic achievement, access to higher education, creating awareness of in-demand job sectors, soft skills coaching, and incubating entrepreneurial aspirations.
• Ensure appropriate and accurate data is collected from students and mentors assigned to site(s); maintain digital and physical files for students assigned to site(s) while following confidentiality protocols; responsible for completion of all required forms, reports, and data entry.
• Maintain an inviting, orderly, and fun environment suitable for learning.
• Responsible for site(s)’s recruitment activities and student enrollment & retention rates.
• Use YAP’s service model with fidelity to enhance service quality and maximize impact; ensure that service tools are utilized effectively; monitor the progress towards pre-determined weekly and monthly deliverables.
• Build and cultivate a strong partnership with faculty, staff, and community at the assigned school site(s)
• Participate in meetings throughout the year to integrate YAP as a partner of the host site; use data strategically to gain school support for YAP’s services and to demonstrate their effectiveness; partner with after-school provider agencies that overlap with YAP to develop cohesive plans for service delivery.
• Serve as a member of YAP’s program leadership team, setting the vision for program implementation and approach.
• Meet or exceed service partner satisfaction goals as indicated by mid and end-of-year service partner surveys.

Team Management :

Additional Duties :

Qualifications :

Requirements :

Competencies

Youth Centric :

The ability to understand the factors that influence youth’s lives; awareness and support of youth’s rights and responsibilities; The ability to be respectful, genuine, honest, and accountable to the youth served; The ability to understand your role and the organization’s role in the life of youth; The ability to respect youth’s identities, preferences, needs, culture, and diversity; The ability to understand developmental issues that youth face.

Cultural Competency :

Promotes and supports diversity; functions effectively within a new cultural context; interacts and responds effectively across cultures in a way that acknowledges and respects people of different cultural backgrounds.

Active Listening :

Is actively able to process information to understand; can listen and meet the needs of youth and stakeholders; handles and utilizes feedback effectively; listens with depth and thoughtfulness.

Foster Teamwork and Collaboration :

Fosters teamwork and participation; the ability to collaborate with others effectively and efficiently; the ability to build trust, respect, and rapport with stakeholders; encourages others to share their ideas, clarify, restate, and validate any concerns, and strategically work toward a collaborative resolution; actively supports and promotes YAP culture.

Results / Outcome Oriented :

Efficiently and effectively can meet personal and agency goals successfully; sets clear objectives and measures process and progress; Takes the initiative in discussing alternative solutions to meet goals successfully; has the ability to be solution-driven, problem-solve, pivot as needed, and support leadership and the agency goals.

Promotes Vision and Mission :

Promotes, understands, and supports Youth Action Project’s mission to empower youth and young adults to develop skills and habits needed for economic and social success. Promotes, understands, and supports Youth Action Project’s vision that all youth graduate from high school, transition into post-secondary education, and enter meaningful employment or entrepreneurial ventures by age 25.

Disclaimers

Work Environment :

The environmental conditions described are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the job functions successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the Youth Action Project, Inc. provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, familial status, disability, or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. Youth Action Project, Inc. hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Youth Action Project, Inc. reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunities and / or perform the job's essential functions unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the Company. This applies to all applicants and employees.

Youth Action Project, Inc. also provides a work environment where employees can be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation, bullying, discrimination, or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all employees and applicants.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are essential components of everyday life at Youth Action Project, Inc., and are critical to our mission of “Empowering Communities One Youth at a Time.”

We aim to foster a culture where every person feels valued, supported, and inspired to achieve individual and common goals with an uncommon will. This includes providing opportunity and access for all people across differences of race, age, color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, disability / abilities, veteran status, and socioeconomic background.

NOTE : This position requires candidates to complete our online application, which can be found at : https : / / tinyurl.com / YAPSiteCoordinator

Salary : $26