Education Specialist

Description

Title:
Education Specialist I - [40 hours/week - full benefits]

Full-time, non-exempt. Generally scheduled up to 40 hrs/week, 9:00am-6:00pm, Monday-Friday during Regular Program; and 8:00am-6:00pm during Intersession Program. Occasional late evenings and weekends for staff training and special events (e.g., Family Nights, Love of Literature Nights, etc.)

Reports to: Elementary Education Coordinator

"Our Mission is to inspire and empower the youth of Monterey County to realize their full potential to become responsible, healthy, productive and successful citizens."

Under the direction of the Elementary Education Coordinator, the Impact Specialist for Education drives youth success through outstanding, Mission-driven and integrity-centered leadership and management. S/he accomplishes this by engaging youth in age-appropriate and outcome-driven programs with specialized focus on academic success, literacy support and intervention. This includes ensuring a safe, positive, fun and impactful Clubhouse environment that engages hundreds of diverse youth, ages 6 to 18 years old, to ultimately achieve on-time grade progression, high school graduation, college/ postsecondary readiness and education leading to a livable wage career, healthy lifestyle and engaged citizenship.

• Fosters an environment where youth acquire a sense of belonging, competence, usefulness, power and influence, and are engaged in developmentally appropriate, high yield learning activities primarily for grades K-5 in Education, Character & Leadership Development, Health & Life Skills and Life & Workforce Readiness
• Address youth behavior with a positive discipline approach that is fair, firm, consistent and kind; helping youth take responsibility/accountability for their actions accompanied with appropriate consequences
• Ensures a culture of high expectations and frequent recognition of youth for their efforts, achievements

• Work collaboratively with the Elementary Education Coordinator in hiring, training, and managing Education Youth Development Professionals and Volunteers
• Plans and facilitates training and promotes professional development

• Monitors progress and takes action accordingly, emphasis on youth reach (e.g., outreach, recruitment, retention, average daily attendance, program participation, etc.) and impact
• Conduct parent meetings in an effort to engage family with youth success
• Utilizes impact management tools, including monitoring specific youth success indicators such as school attendance, behavior, grades, etc. via case management
• Implement grant funded projects, analyze information/reports, present findings, make recommendations with the education team and take action
• Contributes to strategic planning and facilitates implementation with clarity of goals, roles and responsibilities, process ensuring effective, accountable working relationships to achieve results
• Responsible for delivery of school-day program commitment established in annual/quarterly goals (i.e. 50 students served through educational programming at school sites)
• Ensure the program space is clean & well decorated, and reflective of monthly themes; equipment is in good condition; program supplies are adequate and the environment is safe and inviting for all elementary students (K-5th grade)

Collaborates with other departments to achieve organizational goals for example:

• Collaborate to identify youth grades K-5th assessed at below grade level
• Contributes to special event planning and execution; provides oversight of monthly Love of Literature Nights, Club Store, Workforce Readiness, Back to School Family Night, end of year VIPeeps celebration in coordination with Operations
• Identify any safety, transportation, maintenance, and technology issues to Operations

• Attend school meetings and/or meet with teachers as needed to support intervention efforts
• Maintains positive, collaborative working relationships with schools, businesses, other youth service organizations, clergy, law…