Site Coordinator, Summer Youth Employment and Work-Based Learning Program (DY

Site Coordinator, Summer Youth Employment and Work-Based Learning Program (DY)

Posted on April 06, 2019

Dream Yard, founded in 1994, is a Bronx-based organization that uses the arts, social justice pedagogy and digital and connected learning to inspire youth, public schools, and communities. Dream Yard’s yearlong arts programs develop artistic voice, nurture young people’s desire to make a change and cultivate the skills necessary to reach positive goals. By committing to sustained learning opportunities along an educational pathway, with 45 partnering public schools K-12th Grade, with our own DY Prep HS School and at the Dream Yard Art Center in Morrisania, Dream Yard supports young people as they work toward higher learning, meaningful careers, and social action.

We seek to be effective locally while having a national impact through partnerships, collaboration, and learning exchanges.

Dream Yard is committed to the principles of arts education, educational reform and social justice, and fashions its programs to specifically address the needs of urban communities that are typically underrepresented because of race, sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

This is a year-round position, reporting to the Director, SYEP and Work-Based Learning Program. The Coordinator is committed to being the liaison between SYEP, Dream Yard, HERE-to-HERE, and Career Clue in an effort to ensure excellent support and resources for year-round Work-Based Learning (WBL) programming. The ideal candidate will be experienced with SYEP, and highly organized administrator who skillfully communicates summer and year-round program needs to a variety of stakeholders and has the ability to navigate through the complexity of working with DYCD.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders at Dream Yard Campus, Here to Here staff etc. to recruit new businesses and organizations for quality work-based learning opportunities for students;
• Create and own a pipeline of businesses/industries willing to participate in work-based learning; collaborate and liaise with Dream Yard and Here to Here for opportunities;
• Disseminate information on summer Work-Based Learning programs to employers, parents, teachers, students, and staff;
• Roll-out, lead and own the compliance process and partner with all stakeholders to assess, screen, interview, select, and place qualified students into work-based learning experiences based on their career interests and program of study;
• Oversee the administrative implementation at every stage of the SYEP program;
• Monitor SYEP activities including recruitment, registration, the collection of documentation, orientation, payroll, and program implementation and ensure compliance with city agency requirements;
• Conduct pre-assessments and weekly assessments of work sites during the summer program travel as needed;
• Plan, coordinate, and assist with facilitation of work readiness training workshops and participant orientation;
• Monitor and review incident reports and inform DYCD of all incidents;
• Prepare, review, and edit written materials as needed for correspondence, brochures, and agendas;
• Maintain an inventory of supplies and materials to support the Summer Youth Employment Program;
• Participate in professional development and external meetings and conferences, including DYCD meetings;
• Other duties as assigned.

• Superb communication skills and high emotional intelligence;
• A keen leader who inspires young people to be the best version of themselves; possess an ability to create cohesive teams through effective communication and coaching;
• High Achiever, who has a demonstrated track record of achieving results;
• Creative Thinker with the ability to navigate and resolve the complexities of working with different city-wide agencies in order to achieve results;
• Empathic - possess the charisma, patience, warmth to work with young people;
• Client service oriented - seeks to be the face and voice of the summer youth and WBL program;
• Forward thinker, active listener and proactive who takes pride in his/her work;
• Versed and committed to Dream Yard’s culture and community driven by core values, and commitments…