Club Advisor - High School; Richmond Hill

Club Advisor for High School Programs, Richmond Hill (RHHS) Queens (Part-Time Position)

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is committed to providing its employees opportunities for growth in a supportive community environment. With a flexible schedule and generous benefits package, SAYA provides its employees a healthy work-life balance in a youth development nonprofit.

SAYA:
Belong. Grow. Thrive.

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is an inclusive, South Asian-focused 501(c)3 youth development organization. Through our innovative, holistic approach, we work toward educational equity by providing opportunities and resources to less privileged New York City youth, ensuring they are empowered academically, emotionally, and socially to become engaged community members.

Established in 1996, SAYA provides valuable life skills and holistic, impactful programming to underserved New York City youth. As one of the first South Asian organizations created in the United States, SAYA is the only organization of its kind in the NYC metropolitan area providing inclusive and secular comprehensive youth development services while centering our community's experiences. Today, SAYA provides programming at eight elementary, middle, and high schools in Queens and Brooklyn, along with our Elmhurst-based community center - serving a growing number of youth across all sites each year.

A key tenet of our work is cultivating vital social and emotional learning (SEL) skills such as belonging, confidence, and self-efficacy through intentionally designed, research-based curricula. Across our organization, services tailored for different age groups include leadership and identity development, academic support that bridges learning gaps, comprehensive college preparation, and activities that nurture creativity and build positive peer connections.

The NYC Community Schools Initiative is aimed at bridging students, families, and communities with comprehensive social, emotional, and academic support to achieve successful student outcomes. At Richmond Hill High School (RHHS), these desired outcomes include: increased attendance and student engagement; greater connectedness to adults and peers; development of social and emotional skills; greater access to mental health resources; improved academic performance;

improved school culture and climate; increased family engagement; and greater collaboration among community partners and school administration.

This position supports the work of both Richmond Hill High School and Epic High School South in developing quality programming and

At Richmond Hill High School (RHHS), the Activity Specialist will be responsible for supporting expanded learning time activities that develop leadership skills, build community engagement, and integrate a socially conscious and a Social Emotional Learning (SEL)-based framework. They will collaborate with SAYA and school staff to advance the goals of NYC's Community School Initiative at RHHS.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and facilitate lesson plans, curricula centered on building leadership, identity, community, and culturally relevant workshops, activities and trips during in-school and after-school programming.
• Facilitate group enrichment activities during lunch periods and after-school
• Actively recruit, retain, and engage in consistent outreach with program participants.
• Support review of student academic materials
• Engage in mentorship with students experiencing chronic absenteeism, academic challenges, or other barriers to positive school outcomes
• Supporting the growth and training of student leaders
• Support planning, facilitation, and outreach of school-wide events & Community School Initiatives, including but limited to: club special events; monthly themed…