SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
Design, teach, and oversee a diverse range of academic and recreational activities tailored for youth within the community and at Clayton
partner campuses. Enrichment Leaders skillfully manage groups of 15-20 children, delivering age-appropriate and subject-specific curriculum
catering to Pre-K through 8th-grade students.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops engaging and tailored lesson plans and activities catered to specific age groups.
- Ensures stock of essential supplies and equipment required for each club/class.
- Ensures daily setup and maintenance of program areas; ensuring it is organized and cleaned after each use.
- Supervises all activities at the time of the program; working with the program liaisons and Enrichment Manager on class scheduling.
- Plans, organizes and leads community and agency special events for all ages and abilities.
- Contributes to the development and sustenance of an updated inventory system of enrichment kits and equipment.
- Achieves all set objectives and outcomes for the assigned classes.
- Maintains classroom order and implements positive guidance techniques to support and nurture students.
- Maintains positive relationships with host schools, community members, and partners.
- Acts as a representative to showcase and promote the agency’s enrichment offerings during external marketing endeavors.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor.
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
- Self-Awareness: Ability to fully understand the impact emotions have on performance, assessment of strengths and weaknesses, relationships, and others. Demonstrates self-confidence, initiative, motivation, optimism and flexibility.
- Self-Management: Ability to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Models the ability to implement self-control in assessing frustrations and failures and models resilience and courage. Understands personal responsibility in different aspects of life and work, and what is needed to fulfill that responsibility.
- Social Awareness: Ability to understand and learn about the diverse perspective of others. Includes listening, honoring others views, assessing impact of words, and the desire to serve others in effort to meet their needs appropriately and professionally.
- Relationship Skills: Ability to build relationships which model caring, concern and healthy conflict. Demonstrates positive methods of collaboration and conflict resolution. Ability to positively lead and inspire others and integrate such models personally. Demonstrates ability to support positive work culture, which encourages results from others.
- Responsible Decision Making: Ability to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms; the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions; and a consideration of the well-being of oneself and others.
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT:
- Actively engage in professional and personal development.
- Conduct oneself in a professional, ethical manner, in accordance with generally accepted community standards and organization’s employee policies.
- Ability to complete childcare and district background check process and preservice requirements.
- This position requires the ability to present yourself in a professional manner, communicate, and listen to others.
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS:
- Requires daily standing, sitting, bending and stooping
- Requires normal range of hearing and vision
- Requires the ability to lift up to 40 pounds
- Requires the ability to physically move about the program space and fieldtrip venues
- Requires the ability to read text and information and comprehend instructions and manuals
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Ability to work flexible schedules when necessary, and travel to locations on a daily and weekly basis.
- Complete 30+ hours of paid training/professional development, occasionally out of the area
- Available to work Saturdays and/or evenings
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- No or very limited exposure to physical risk
- Risk of exposure to childhood diseases
- Attendance at fieldtrips and waterparks with various environmental conditions, heat and weather
This position description does not list all the duties of the job. Incumbent may be asked to perform other functions and duties. Incumbent will be evaluated in part based upon performance of the responsibilities in this job description.
