Program Director

Position Summary

The Program Director role is located at our Salome Ureña Campus site and is responsible for the management and supervision of SONYC, 21st CCLC, I Challenge My? , ExpandED, summer camp, and holiday programs; as well as support the Community School strategy. We are committed to ensuring that there are no boundaries to young people’s aspirations, no limits to their potential.

We do this by implementing the agency mission, goals and objectives. We aim to cultivate a strong foundation for success in all of our participants and the community through innovative and effective social-emotional, academic, family, and wellness services.

$66,300 - $68,000 yearly

To help children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive support to children and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods. Children’s Aid annually serves children and their families at over 40 sites in New York, as well as through three national program models. Children’s Aid is concentrating its efforts on creating cradle-through-college pathways in high-need neighborhoods, with a focus on children’s health, family stability, education, and social and emotional development.

We put children, youth, and families first: We listen to and incorporate the voices of children, youth and families in all that we do.

We seek equity and transformation in our communities: We courageously work within and outside systems to create opportunities for children, youth and families.

We strive for excellence: We hold ourselves to the highest standards and are committed to continuous learning and improvement.

We are powered by collaboration: Our work is stronger when we trust, partner, and respect each other and the communities we serve.

We are driven by compassion: We lead with kindness, care, and empathy and believe in the endless potential of the people we serve and our team.

• Design, plan, and implement quality, innovative programming that employs youth development principles and practices, which supports their educational and social emotional needs, and builds leadership skills.
• Work closely with the program’s education coordinator to ensure that day-school learning aligns with the after-school literacy component.
• Oversees the behavioral management of children to ensure a healthy social-emotional development.
• Responsible for the management and supervision of the after-school, holiday and summer camp, as well as other special programs in collaboration with community school partners.
• Meet all Youth Division outcomes and objectives as well as contractual mandates set by DYCD, DOE, ExpandED Schools, and ICM.
• Ensure that the goals for all program components align with the Division’s extended day program outcomes related to education, STEM, social-emotional learning & executive functioning, nutrition & fitness, arts & enrichment, youth leadership and family engagement.
• Responsible for developing and implementing strategies that will lead to achieving program outcomes, including youth recruitment, enrollment and rate of participation.
• Supervise the day-to-day functions of the program.
• Responsible for the supervision of Summer Youth Employment Program participants.
• Obtain all related licenses required to operate after-school and summer camp programs.
• Create, organize and maintain confidential client & staff files.
• Recruit, interview, hire, supervise and evaluate extended day and summer camp staff.
• Model appropriate child, youth and adult development practices, and address behavior concerns as needed.
• Coordinate and facilitate case conferences as needed.

• Develop and implement a strategic recruitment plan to ensure compliance of enrollment and rate of participation time frames with SONYC, Office of Community Schools, ExpandED Schools and I Challenge My? (ICM).
• Build, maintain and nurture relationship with school administration, teachers and guidance to create alignment between the school day and after school program.
• Establish recruitment efforts to engage, enroll and sustain youth participation in SONYC,…