Youth Development Associate

Required Linguistic Skills: Spanish

Position Summary

The Youth Development Associate (YDA) is the primary staff position in the Catholic Charities’ After School Program. The YDA who works with younger students will be a generalist and provide programming using preset curricula in literacy, STEM, Social skills, and others with a set group of 15 students. The YDA working with older students may be a specialist in an area such as arts, music, crafting, social skills/youth development, STEM, or others, and work with different groups of students during the week.

Work hours are during the school year. Some summer hours may be available. It is a per diem position, working up to 15 hours weekly during the school year, with the possibility of additional hours during the summer season. School year hours are between 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

There is one week of professional development at the start of each program year (early September). Summer staff will have two weeks of program planning/professional development in June. There are also monthly professional development opportunities.

• General duties and responsibilities
• Provide academic support via homework help to an assigned group of students assisted by high school program interns at least 4 afternoons a week for 45 minutes.
• Provide enrichment instruction to an assigned group of elementary age students in an after-school program, Monday through Friday, during the school year.
• Take daily attendance using required forms and submit attendance on a daily basis to the Program Coordinator.
• Ensure sequenced lesson plans are in place with measurable outcomes. Be able to document achievement among the program participants.
• Provide enrichment program activities to two assigned groups of students for a Prepare sequenced lesson plans with measurable outcomes.
• Document achievement among the program participants.
• PQI Functions
• Ensure the consistent accurate collection of the data
• Identify patterns and trends of administrative services
• Use results of data to inform supervisor of trends that may impact services
• Other duties and assigned

Qualifications

• College preferred. H.S. Diploma and training/experience in the field of instruction.

• Competencies
• Classroom management and/or group facilitation skills
• Able to work with urban children and youth
• Bilingual Spanish capability is a plus.

Employee benefits

Catholic Charities offers access to a comprehensive array of benefits, including

• For
• Good
• Health:
• Medical,
• Prescription,
• Dental and
• Vision insurance
• For a
• Secure
• Future:
• Life,
• AD&D and
• Long-term disability insurance
• For
• Retirement: 403(b) Plan, with employer matching contributions for eligible employees
• For
• Career
• Advancement: Training and development opportunities and for Licensed Clinicians ability to apply for the education Loan Forgiveness Program under The National Services Health Corp.
• For
• Work
• Life
• Balance: Generous paid time off; including vacation and sick time. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Free and confidential counseling

Catholic Charities Inc., Archdiocese of Hartford is in compliance with all applicable discrimination laws. All hiring, promoting, and transferring is done on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to membership in any protected class. EEO/ AA/ M-F/ VET/ DISABLED.