Assistant Program Director, After School Programs

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Job Location:

Bronx, NY 10452, Position Type:
Part Time, Education Level: 2 Year Degree, Salary Range: $23.00 - $28.00 Hourly, ABOUT NEW SETTLEMENT

The Crenulated Company Ltd. dba New Settlement Apartments (“New Settlement”) is a community-led, mission-driven settlement house rooted in the Bronx. For more than 35 years, New Settlement has worked with youth, families, residents, and community members in the Southwest Bronx to build resilience, expand opportunity, and strengthen neighborhoods through after-school education and youth development, workforce development and college readiness, health, fitness, and wellness programming, community organizing for better housing and safer schools, and arts, creative expression, and community-building initiatives.

Rooted in the Bronx, New Settlement stands with community members to break systemic barriers, advance justice, promote leadership, and strengthen neighborhoods. By ensuring agency around education, employment, housing, wellness, and creative expression, New Settlement helps cultivate an equitable society where individuals and families have the power to use their voice to create the change they wish to see.

The Assistant Program Director for After School Programming supports the Program Director in the daily administration, supervision, and delivery of a high-quality DYCD-funded after-school program. The position helps ensure that programming is safe, inclusive, youth-centered, and consistent with the approved DYCD Work scope, program schedule, contractual requirements, and organizational policies.

The Assistant Program Director provides direct supervision and guidance to assigned program staff, monitors participant attendance and engagement, supports curriculum implementation, maintains required documentation, communicates with families and school partners, and assists with continuous quality improvement. In the Program Director’s absence, the Assistant Program Director assumes responsibility for daily site operations and serves as the primary on-site contact.

• Support the day-to-day operation of the after school program, ensuring services are delivered in accordance with DYCD contracts, program goals, enrollment targets, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies.
• Monitor program activities, participant supervision, staffing ratios, facility readiness, and daily site operations to ensure a safe, organized, and high-quality program environment.
• Assist with program opening and closing procedures, special events, and overall site coordination.
• Serve as the primary site leader in the absence of the Program Director, ensuring continuity of program operations, supervision, compliance, and participant safety.
• Support compliance with all applicable requirements of DYCD, DOE, DOHMH, OCFS/SACC, and other regulatory agencies.

• Support the implementation of engaging, age-appropriate programs that promote positive youth development and incorporate social-emotional learning, literacy and academic enrichment, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and arts), physical activity and healthy living, leadership and life-skills development, college and career awareness, and arts, recreation, and cultural enrichment.
• Review program plans, conduct observations, and provide coaching and feedback to staff to ensure high-quality instruction and participant engagement.
• Support the Program Director in creating opportunities for participants to share their interests, influence program activities, assume leadership roles, and provide meaningful feedback on their program experience.
• Foster an inclusive, welcoming, and…