Program Coordinator, Queens, NY (FT) - SAYA : Job Details

Program Coordinator, Queens, NY (FT)

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA)

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is committed to providing its employees opportunities for growth in a supportive community environment. With a flexible schedule and generous benefits package, SAYA provides its employees a healthy work-life balance in a youth development nonprofit.

SAYA: Belong. Grow. Thrive.

Organization Description:

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is an inclusive, South Asian-focused 501(c)3 youth development organization. Through our innovative, 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, impactful programming 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 providing inclusive and secular comprehensive youth development services while centering our community's experiences. Today, SAYA provides programming at ten elementary, middle, and high schools in Queens and Brooklyn, along with our Elmhurst-based community center - serving a growing number of youth 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 include leadership and identity development, academic support that bridges learning gaps, comprehensive college preparation, and activities that nurture creativity and build positive peer connections.

Position Summary:

The Program Coordinator will be responsible for the planning, implementation, coordination and facilitation of SAYA's postsecondary and College Success programming at our partner high schools and the Elmhurst Center. SAYA's high school and college programming aims to help youth navigate their complex and layered personal and social identities; practice self-care; develop positive relationships with family members, peers, and school staff; navigate youths' postsecondary landscape; and receive mentorship. The skills we help our youth build are transferable in other areas of their lives and in the future, including succeeding in high school, post-secondary opportunities, and career. SAYA's goal is to raise their critical consciousness so that they will be better equipped to navigate their own lives, offer peer support to others and become advocates for themselves and their communities. This role will work directly with site-based high school youth through postsecondary supports, and continue to work with them as they graduate high school and move into their postsecondary pathways through our College Success program.

Supervisor: Co-Director of High School and College Programs

Responsibilities:

Program Management

• Oversee the registration and enrollment process for youth.
• Track and manage attendance and other student data using our web-based database and other customized tools.
• Provide program data for grant reporting as is necessary.
• Conduct periodic evaluation of programming to measure effectiveness of services and maintain documentation of activities and outcomes.
• Attend trainings, professional development workshops and conferences.
• Create contingency plans for events and workshops, and is proactive in addressing changing program needs.
• Manage new projects, initiatives, and duties.
• Lead college access and success program design and implementation, data tracking systems, and resource dissemination for youth at school sites in alignment with SAYA's Elmhurst Center College Success Program.

Case Management

• Communicate with college success youth via phone, text, email, zoom, and in-person regularly.
• Identify and disseminate resources, such as available internships, jobs, academic resources, and scholarships, to SAYA College Success network and provide career advice and coaching.
• Guide and advise students around best practices to help ensure their academic and career success and fulfillment.
• Track, maintain, and follow up on students' academic, early career, and college application/decision progress.

Curriculum Development and Facilitation

• Develop lesson plans and curriculum for college access, postsecondary success, career exposure, and enrichment programming.
• Utilize social emotional learning framework and strategies in the development of resources, tools and support for youth.
• Facilitate sessions at the Elmhurst Center and school site(s).
• Collaborate with colleagues around the planning of lessons, curriculum, career exposure and career events, special events, and trips.
• Create and lead workshops around the college application and financial aid processes, and provide one-on-one or small group advisement throughout the application season.
• Incorporate an equity lens in program development.

Relationship Building and Youth Engagement

• Build positive rapport and mentoring relationships with youth by being approachable, available and ready to listen.
• Provide individual and group advisement and overall guidance for the personal and academic development of youth participants.
• Participate in youth activities and proactively engage with youth during their time at SAYA spent outside of formally structured programming.
• Chaperone trips which may be held during the school day, after school, evenings, weekends and summer.
• Support youth with academic activities by providing assistance with school work and projects.

Partnership Development and Recruitment

• Cultivate strong partnerships with SAYA colleagues, school teachers/administrators, college representatives, other CBOs and NYC government agencies to provide youth with a range of resources and support.
• Build collaborative relationships with community partners and school leaders, including administration, teachers, parent coordinators, and guidance counselors.
• Strengthen the connection between SAYA school partner sites and SAYA's Elmhurst Center by collaborating with colleagues and providing information about Center programs and events to school-based youth.
• Participate in youth recruitment efforts with outreach to school and community organization stakeholders.
• Assist with the coordination of volunteers and corporate partnerships along with colleagues.

The above is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by this position. Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree
• Two plus years experience in relevant fields (Education, Social Work, Counseling)
• Experience with workshop facilitation, youth mentorship, classroom management, and curriculum development
• Familiarity and comfort with developing curriculum incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL), social justice and positive youth development
• Previous experience in and knowledge of NYC public schools
• Highly flexible and openness to feedback, with ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced setting
• Willingness to support larger SAYA team with various tasks as needed and positively contribute to SAYA team culture across programs
• Must be comfortable with public speaking in leading events and initiatives, and an interest in continuing to grow professionally in this area
• Excellent proficiency in Google Suite, including Google Spreadsheet, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Forms, MS-Excel

Compensation:

$60,000-$65,000 commensurate with experience

PTO starting at 25 days

10 paid holidays

12 weeks (60 days) of fully paid FMLA leave

Employer sponsored medical benefits with generous employer contributions for employee and dependents

Optional dental, vision, transit, and FSA benefits

Flexible schedule policies

Additional Information:

• This position is in-person
• This role may require you to work on Saturdays. You must be available to work early morning hours at school-based sites
• Must be comfortable with periodic commute and occasional transfer of items between school and SAYA central office, and other designated locations as assigned or as is needed