After School Instructor

Job Description

At EDMO, staff members spend their time connecting with kids, honing leadership skills, and making a real impact - all while rocking wacky costumes and getting pied in the face! Our positions offer a unique opportunity to help kids uncover hidden talents, while pursuing your own personal and professional goals and passions. Spend your time developing translatable and transferable professional skills (like mentoring and classroom management) while growing social-emotional learning skills side by side with the kids (like collaboration, empathy, and problem‑solving).

The After School Instructor is responsible for teaching all curriculum for students in their program. They train on all EDMO STEAM/SEL curriculum. Instructors should be prepared for personal and professional growth, classroom management practice, and a whole lot of FUN!

Position reports to:
Site Director or Site Assistant

• Approach education with passion and excitement and build positive role‑model relationships with students
• Refine curriculum and add personal contributions as seen fit
• Interact with parents in a professional and energetic manner
• Help cultivate healthy self‑esteem and a natural love for learning
• Be responsible for supply inventory, bin prep, and clean‑up
• Maintain accurate reporting: attendance records, class notes, daily log, incident reports
• Lead engaging and well‑organized recreation activities designed to promote teamwork, collaboration, and fun physical activity
• Attend staff meetings and professional development series
• Ensure all students are safe and have a positive experience
• Exhibit the EDMO Vibe and demonstrate through actions and words each of the social‑emotional learning (SEL) skills of self‑awareness, problem‑solving, advocacy, collaboration, and empathy, while also reinforcing these qualities in other staff and kids

• Must be 18 years of age
• Must have a High School Diploma or GED
• Previous satisfactory experience working with groups of students
• Completion or willingness to complete the Instructional Assistant Exam coordinating with the academic level required for the position (Will waive requirement with proof of Bachelor’s degree with coursework primarily in English, AA degree, or completion of 48 college‑level units)
• Three positive work/character references
• Must complete Livescan and TB test
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds to carry bins of teaching materials

• Experience facilitating groups of children and/or working with youth programs
• Experience (and a love for!) working with kids
• High sense of responsibility and dependability
• Contagious enthusiasm and charisma
• Strong team player
• Creative, flexible, and excellent multi‑tasker
• Willingness to solve problems, be patient, and remain positive and fun
• Classroom management and teaching experience is a HUGE plus
• Degree in progress in a related field and/or relevant experience

• A science background including biology, chemistry, and physics
• Basic science lab skills
• Engineering
• A large supply of costumes and/or a plethora of skits and songs in your back pocket is a PLUS!
• Teaching credentials or units towards credentials is a HUGE BONUS!

• Vision:
  Ability to read small print and view a computer screen for prolonged periods.
• Hearing:
  Ability to tolerate exposure to noisy conditions.
• Speech:
  Ability to be understood in face‑to‑face communications, to speak with a level of proficiency and volume to be understood over a telephone or computer.
• Upper Body Mobility:
  Ability to use hands to grasp, and manipulate small objects; manipulate fingers, twist and bend at wrist and elbow; extend arms to reach outward and upward; use hands and arms to lift objects; turn, raise, and lower head.
• Strength:
  Ability to lift, push, pull, and/or carry objects that weigh up to 50 pounds frequently. Incumbents may be required to physically restrain parties involved in a conflict.
• Environmental Requirements:
  Ability to encounter constant work interruptions; work cooperatively with others; work independently; work indoors and outdoors.
• Mental Requirements:
  Ability to read, write,…