Youth Worker​/At​/Part-Time

Overview

The Summer Youth Leadership Program is a summer employment opportunity for the City of Norwalk residents. The youth participates in leadership and job skills development programs and actively participates in weekly workshops related to job training and leadership programs. They attend trips geared towards team building and relationship development. Performs various unskilled tasks involved in the maintenance, custodial services, or upkeep of City buildings and facilities, parks and recreation buildings, grounds, and open spaces;

performs related duties as required.

Depending upon assignment, essential duties include but are not limited to, the following:

Public Services

Learned the tasks and care required to maintain city facilities, parks, and infrastructure.

• PARKS – Maintains and cleans parks and open space areas around City buildings and park facilities, including picnic areas, barbecues, restrooms, and athletic fields; performs routine landscaping, including planting, trimming, weeding, and fertilizing; assists with graffiti removal in parks.
• FACILITIES – Provides custodial services for facilities, including floors, cleaning restrooms, and removal of trash; sweeps, mops, scrubs, strips, polishes, and waxes floors; cleans rugs and carpets; dusts, polishes, and waxes furniture and woodwork; cleans and stocks restrooms; empties and cleans waste receptacles and ashtrays; washes walls, windows, mirrors, and blinds; moves furniture or other heavy objects for setup of City functions.
• STREETS – Cleans up work sites upon completion of jobs; observes safe work methods and safety practices, including the coning and flagging at work sites to secure them from traffic.

Administration

Learned the fundamental elements of City Government and operation.

Transportation

Will have exposure to transit operations for the City's Transportation Division

Public Safety

Learn the procedures of the Public Safety office and basic information about how Public Safety operates within the City of Norwalk.

Social Services/Senior Center

Will be introduced to various City Services, including Senior Center Recreational and Social Services.

Recreation

Will assist with facility operations and park programming, interacting with families at the parks and various Recreational facilities.

OFFICES

Assists with routine clerical tasks, such as photocopying, filing, and typing.

The application requirements for the 2026 Summer Youth Leadership Program must be met to move forward in the recruitment process:

• The applicant must be a Norwalk resident.
• Applicant must be at least 15 years old as of May 1, 2026, and may not turn 19 before August 9, 2026.
• Upon successful hiring, applicants will be responsible for obtaining a work permit from their respective High Schools.
• Immediate family members of the City of Norwalk employees, commissioners, or elected officials are NOT eligible.

You must attach copies of the following to your application.

• For proof of residency, please attach one of the following items: Utility Bill, Cell Phone Bill, Rent Receipt, or School Letter showing a home address.
• One Letter of recommendation.

Failure to comply with the above requirements will result in immediate disqualification.

If you need assistance with this, please contact the Human Resources Department at . The Department of Human Resources is here to assist you!

The physical demands and work environment described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this class successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, an incumbent is regularly required to use hands to finger, grasp, feel, and use repetitive motions to operate office equipment.

Incumbents are frequently required to sit, talk and hear. Incumbents are occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or reach. Incumbents perform sedentary work. Specific vision abilities required by these positions are those required to perform office machine operations. There is an…