Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida·Jacksonville, Florida
The Youth Development Professional plans and implements sports and recreation programs to promote physical fitness and positive social development for youth. They are responsible for supervising members, ensuring a safe environment, and providing guidance to help youth achieve their goals.
Youth Development Professional - Sports & Recreation (Biltmore Elementary)
This position is designed to help members develop physical fitness, reduce stress, promote a positive use of leisure time, appreciate the environment, and improve interpersonal skills.
The Sports & Recreation Youth Development Professional is part of a team-oriented Club staff dedicated to serving our youth and creating an optimal Club Experience. This position will plan, supervise, and implement a variety of high-yield activities and targeted programs within a health and life skills focus.
ensuring youth development principles are incorporated into all programs and activities; providing guidance and discipline to ensure a safe and positive environment for youth; ensuring the incorporation of character development, age appropriate and gender-specific programs and activities; ensuring that culturally diverse programs are implemented; assisting, as needed, in the planning, implementation, and delivery of activities and programs for youth ages 6 to 18.
KEY ROLES (Essential Job Responsibilities): Prepare Youth for Success
This position helps members to make appropriate choices about their education, career, social, physical, and emotional needs as it relates to health and their future goals. The position also assesses the developmental needs, interests, and characteristics of youth to develop targeted programs that result in an outcome-driven club experience.
3. Ensure quality improvement by monitoring and evaluating program achievement against target goals, recommending modifications that respond to member needs and interests and participating in weekly Club staff meetings.
4. Participate in local, state, regional, and national Boys & Girls Clubs sports programs and competitions.
Health and Safety
1. Ensure a healthy and safe environment, supervising members in the program area. 2. Maintain the cleanliness of the program area. 3. Maintain an inventory of program equipment and supplies in good order. Recommend requisitions as necessary.
1. Prepare weekly reports for the Program Director/Unit Director regarding activities, special programs, upcoming events, attendance, and other reports as required. 2. Maintains a daily written schedule. Ensures that programs begin and end on time.
Maintains close, daily contact with club staff and volunteers, club members, and supervisor to receive/provide information, discuss issues, explain guidelines/instructions; instruct; and advise/counsel.
Education: High School diploma or GED
Ability to pass DCF Level II background screening and drug test
This position generally works 2.5 to 3 hours per day, M–F, between the hours of 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM, but may require longer hours outside of this schedule when necessary. Work is conducted indoors.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
This position requires a Level 2 background screening through the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse as mandated by Florida Statute 435.12. For more information, please visit the Clearinghouse Applicant Education and Awareness website: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/ [https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.flclearinghouse.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ctiffanye%40bgcnf.org%7C882947d5dda54fec982d08de5dbe3f45%7Cfb6e3850f075476e85f6edb09fca8edb%7C0%7C0%7C639051268847205276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VO4cW%2FROc5mwfA5smO733iln9ocgMXJj9w4io2xSWVU%3D&reserved=0]
Market context
In Florida, youth development roles in sports and recreation are often tied to school and community programming, so demand can be steady where after-school and enrichment services are active. These positions are competitive because employers look for candidates who can manage behavior, motivate youth, and clear a DCF Level II background screening. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to quickly compare fit before applying, and be ready to highlight hands-on youth experience and a high school diploma or GED.
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