Care Group Leader

About DeKalb Brilliance Academy:
Designed with input from nearly 1,000 South DeKalb community members, DeKalb Brilliance Academy is a tuition-free, public K-8 charter school committed to building a fundamentally different kind of education. We currently serve grades K-6 and will add one grade per year (learn more about our founding journey here).

Our vision is that each child will know and leverage their unique brilliance to critically analyze the world around them and to design a better and more equitable future. We pursue this vision through our Career-connected Project-based Learning, where students learn not only from their teachers and peers, but also directly from scientists, lawyers, engineers, and designers. Our model is ambitious by design - and built to challenge the status quo in service of our students and community.

DeKalb Brilliance Academy: where the strength of our community nurtures the brilliance of our children.

The Hive is the before-care and after-school program at DeKalb Brilliance Academy. We serve scholars from the moment the building opens until the last family leaves, and our work is built on the belief that the hours outside the school day matter as much as the ones inside it. Our programming is guided by five pillars - Love, Learning, Leadership, Creativity, and Community - and by four commitments we make to each other: we care, we correct, we learn, we grow.

The Group Leader is a front-line program leader responsible for designing and facilitating engaging, structured, and age-appropriate activities during the after-school day. This role shapes the scholar experience, supports positive behavior, and brings the pillars to life through enrichment, movement, creativity, and group engagement. Group Leaders work directly with scholars and collaborate closely with site leadership to ensure activities are safe, engaging, inclusive, and aligned with program goals.

• Position Group Leader: assigned to one grade band
• Reports to Senior Program Director
• Employment type:
  
  Part-time, hourly, non-exempt
• Hours Approximately; 25 hours per week
• Calendar: school days only
• Benefits:
  This position does not include benefits or paid sick time

• Design, plan, and facilitate engaging, age-appropriate activities aligned with the pillars
• Prepare daily activity plans that balance structure, creativity, movement, and scholar choice
• Set up, manage, and reset your activity space before and after programming
• Ensure activities are safe, inclusive, and accessible to every scholar in your group

• Take paper attendance within the first five minutes of program
• Move scholars at Level 0, with an adult positioned mid-to-back of the line
• Build positive, respectful relationships with scholars while holding professional boundaries

• Reinforce clear expectations and routines during every activity
• Address minor concerns through redirection, coaching, and de-escalation
• Use restorative language - we reset, we do not use time-out
• Move a scholar's seat early, before a moment escalates
• Log every behavior incident the same day it happens

• Complete attendance, incident reports, and activity documentation accurately and on time
• Communicate with families only as directed by program leadership
• Keep your walkie on you and turned all the way up for your entire shift
• Tell leadership before your shift, not after, if anything will affect your arrival

• Complete the nightly clean sweep: tables wiped, floor swept, all program materials removed, chairs in
• Power P-boards fully off - not screen-off - and confirm the indicator light is out
• Leave…