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Cooking Activity Specialist-Middle School-Ozone Park Jobs in New York, New York, USA at SAYA
Location: New York
Cooking Activity Specialist for Middle School Program, Ozone Park, Queens
(Part-Time Position)South Asian Youth Action (SAYA)
South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is committed to providing its employeesopportunities for growthin a supportive community environment. As an Activity Specialist, you will receive access to external opportunities and have considerableautonomyin designing and implementing new projects and curricula. With a school-day schedule and a generousbenefits package, SAYA provides its employees a healthywork-life balancein a fast-growing youth development nonprofit.
SAYA:
Belong. Grow. Thrive.
Organization Description:
South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is aninclusive, South Asian-focused 501(c)3 youth development organization. Through ourinnovative,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,impactfulprogramming 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 providinginclusiveand 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 youths 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 includeleadershipand identity development, academic support that bridges learning gaps, comprehensive college preparation, and activities that nurture creativity and build positive peer connections.
Position Summary:
The Activity Specialist will be responsible for developing and providing classes at our middle school after school program sharing ways to prepare favorite meals in a healthier manner or as an opportunity to introduce unfamiliar food.
Reports to:Program Director
Compensation:$30-$45 an hour, commensurate with experience and qualifications. This is an in-person position for the school year from September through June with potential rehire for summer and the following year.
Responsibilities:
Supervise all activities to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of program participants.
Develop lesson plans of age-appropriate cooking activities and themes that will support the development of social-emotional learning competencies.
Facilitate purposeful activities that foster thedevelopment of new skillsin youth in an engaging, creative, and responsive manner.
Manage classroom and maintain a positivelearning environment.
Build positive relationships with youth and adults and serve as a role model withrespectto demeanor,communication, and overall attitude.
Ensure proper care of all spaces and materials, organize the room, and report any misused or damaged materials to the Program Director.
Complete and submit in a timely manner all program reports relative to this position, including but not limited to: supply requests, lesson plans, incident repor…
Title: Cooking Activity Specialist-Middle School-Ozone Park
Company: SAYA
Location: New York, New York, USA
Category: Education / Teaching, Non-Profit
