Sports Youth Development Specialist - Dance

The UD Team SBYD Coach will use his/her passion and expertise in sports, health and fitness to change young lives. As a member of the UD Team, Coaches will use the power of sports and physical activity to engage, educate, and energize at-risk youth. Using an SBYD framework, where life skills are taught in conjunction with sports skills, Coaches will use sports to help struggling students to re-engage in the academic community.

Coaches will lead multiple sessions each day with their team during which they will teach athletic skill development, coach their teams in both inter- and intra- school competitions, all while ensuring that UD Team’s Core Values of Teamwork, Leadership, Communication are in the forefront of each session.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:

Urban Dove Team Charter School (UD Team) is a completely unique and innovative network of alternative sports-based high schools for over-aged, under-credited youth. Our schools combine a rigorous academic curriculum with a hands-on, real-world vocational program, and an award-winning college and career readiness program that strives to give each graduate a high school diploma, a foundation for higher education, and the job skills needed to enter the world of work.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan and execute SBYD curriculum, including conducting team practices, coaching competitive games both at and away from school after school and on weekends, facilitating cardio/weight room sessions, and other SBYD activities as needed.
• Plan and facilitate engaging Health curriculum.
• Plan and facilitate weekly team circles.
• Co-facilitate weekly HI Risers and College All Stars workshops.
• Monitor daily team transitions including homeroom, the first and last five minutes of class, lunch, and dismissal.
• Track and monitor data on student attendance, lateness, behavior, and academic performance.
• Update school wide athletic eligibility document on a regular basis.
• Log accurate attendance in Jupiter Student Information System
• Promote and track team earnings in school wide positive behavior plan (UD Cup)
• Implement school wide electronics policy.
• Monitor referrals for infractions on a daily basis and implement interventions for low level behavioral issues.
• Conduct in-depth one on one check-ins with each student, accurately maintaining and filing all meeting notes.
• Conduct aggressive student outreach including daily attendance calls, home visits, and parent meetings, ensuring that student attendance is in place and reportable.
• Collaborate with teachers in weekly meetings and facilitate communication between students and teachers as needed.
• Engage students in study hall with opportunities to make up work or enrichment.
• Maintain open communication with parents and guardians regarding attendance, academic performance, and behavior, conducting intervention meetings as needed.
• Work in partnership with deans, guidance counselors, and social workers on intervention planning (attendance, lateness, behavior, academic) using a restorative lens.
• Work with parents to make sure every student has a completed consent and medical form on file to participate in sports.
• Maintain sports equipment and uniforms.
• Attend all department and school wide meetings and professional development.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Demonstrated ability to “multi-task” and deliver high quality work.
• Commitment to the UD Team mission and core values of Teamwork, Leadership, and Communication
• Commitment to the use of restorative practices and a strength-based, youth development approach to student issues
• Ability to function well as part of a team and work independently.
• Must be team-oriented, with a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills, a passion for serving at-risk youth, and a sense of humor.

OUR MISSION

Urban Dove energizes, educates, and empowers young people through our network of UD Team Charter Schools serving over-age/under-credited high school students. UD Team's innovative model uses sports, teams, restorative practices and mentoring to create a culture of high expectations and shared responsibility. By instilling our core values of Teamwork, Leadership and Communication, we…