Sunrise Representative - Youth Action Project
San Bernardino, CA 92408
About the Job
NOTE: This position requires candidates to complete our online application, which can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/YAPSLSunrise
About Us:
At Youth Action Project, Inc., we believe every young person's homegrown potential is realized through local opportunity. Our mission is to inspire youth through tailored academic mentorship, comprehensive skill development, and the cultivation of economic opportunity.
Position Overview:
The Sunrise Site Lead (SRSL) is the driving force behind our Sunrise program sites, ensuring that all aspects of service delivery are effective and impactful. In this role, you will lead a team of dedicated Youth Leads and support AmeriCorps members as they engage students in transformative experiences. You’ll build strong partnerships with school personnel, collaborate with campus-based service providers, and engage students and parents in meaningful ways. If you’re a passionate leader with a commitment to youth development, this is the perfect role for you.
The Sunrise Site Lead (SRSL) is the driving force behind our Sunrise program sites, ensuring that all aspects of service delivery are effective and impactful. In this role, you will lead a team of dedicated Youth Leads and support AmeriCorps members as they engage students in transformative experiences. You’ll build strong partnerships with school personnel, collaborate with campus-based service providers, and engage students and parents in meaningful ways. If you’re a passionate leader with a commitment to youth development, this is the perfect role for you.
What You’ll Do:
Site Management:
- Innovate and Implement: Design and deliver before-school programming that opens doors to sustainable career paths. Facilitate academic achievement, create awareness of in-demand job sectors, provide soft skills coaching, and nurture entrepreneurial aspirations.
- Data-Driven Success: Ensure accurate and timely data collection from students and mentors. Maintain digital and physical student files, adhering to strict confidentiality protocols. Complete all required forms, reports, and data entry to maintain program integrity.
- Engaging Environments: Create and maintain an inviting, organized, and fun learning environment that motivates students to succeed.
- Recruitment & Retention: Lead site recruitment activities to maintain high enrollment and retention rates. Use Youth Action Project’s service model to enhance program quality and maximize student impact.
- Partnership Building: Cultivate strong relationships with faculty, staff, and the broader community at your assigned school site. Use strategic data to demonstrate the effectiveness of our programs and secure school support.
- Leadership & Collaboration: As a member of the program leadership team, help set the vision for program implementation. Partner with other after-school providers to develop cohesive plans for service delivery.
- Measure Success: Aim to exceed service partner satisfaction goals as measured by mid-year and end-of-year surveys.
Team Management:
- Lead with Purpose: Manage and coach a team of Youth Leads, embedding Youth Action Project’s mission and values into daily practices.
- Develop Talent: Assist with recruiting, selecting, and training new team members. Provide ongoing support to ensure all team members meet performance standards and uphold YAP and District policies.
- Empower AmeriCorps Members: Regularly observe and coach AmeriCorps members, helping them achieve their service goals and contribute effectively to the program.
- Professional Development: Collaborate with leadership to assess and address your team's professional development needs. Assist with performance evaluations and goal-setting to ensure continuous growth.
- Accountability: Ensure all team members remain accountable through regular check-ins and performance reviews. Meet daily to review service delivery and student outcomes, ensuring the team stays on track.
Additional Duties:
- Project Management: Support leadership in managing designated projects, programs, or grants. In addition to your Sunrise Representative duties, take ownership of at least one grant or program.
- Parent Engagement: Develop workshops and activities that inform and engage parents, enhancing their involvement in the program.
- Event Support: Participate in and help coordinate Youth Action Project events, ensuring they run smoothly.
- Communication & Problem Solving: Maintain open communication with your supervisor to address challenges and prioritize tasks effectively.
Qualifications:
- Education & Experience: A bachelor’s degree in education or a related field is strongly preferred. Experience in a school or youth-support setting, with at least 2 years in a leadership role, is required. Background in English Language Arts, math, behavior management, after-school programming, or social work is a plus.
- Adaptability: Proven ability to thrive in dynamic environments, manage projects, delegate tasks, and achieve goals despite challenges.
- Relational Skills: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships through collaboration. Openness, responsiveness, and understanding are key.
- Conflict Resolution: Skilled at addressing and resolving team conflicts with tact and professionalism.
- Calm Under Pressure: Ability to remain composed and focused in high-pressure situations.
Requirements:
- Flexible Hours: Ability to work flexible hours to meet deadlines and program needs.
- Communication: Strong communication skills for interacting with students, parents, and stakeholders. Must be able to convey accurate information professionally.
- Transportation: Reliable transportation, a valid California Driver's License, and a good driving record are required. Must maintain state-mandated personal automobile insurance.
- Tech Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, and project management software.
- Program Hours: Available to work during program hours (shift varies: 7:00 am-11:00 am on Mondays and 7:00 am-10:00 am Tuesday through Friday). Additional hours for training may be required.
- Certifications: CPR, First Aid, and Child Abuse Prevention certifications are required within 30 days of hire. Must pass a TB test and background check upon hiring.
- Bilingual: Fluency in Spanish is a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: Lead initiatives that make a real difference in the lives of young people.
- Growth Opportunities: Develop your leadership skills in a supportive environment.
- Community Engagement: Be part of a mission-driven team committed to empowering youth and strengthening communities.
Benefits for Sunrise Site Lead (SRSL):
As a Sunrise Site Lead (SRSL), you will have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your overall well-being and personal growth. Our benefits include.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - We understand the importance of mental and emotional well-being. Our EAP provides confidential counseling services, resources, and support to help you manage personal and work-related challenges.
- FinFit - We are committed to your financial health. FinFit offers a range of tools and resources to help you manage your finances, plan for the future, and achieve your financial goals. These include financial education, budgeting assistance, and access to emergency loans.
- Working Advantage - Enjoy exclusive discounts and deals on a wide range of products and services through Working Advantage. Whether you’re looking for entertainment, travel, or everyday savings, this program offers valuable perks that enhance your overall quality of life.
- 403(b) Retirement Plan - At YAP, we care about your future. Our 403(b) retirement plan allows you to save for retirement with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and may also provide employer matching funds.
- To be eligible for an employer contribution, employees must complete one year of employment with the Youth Action Project.
Competencies:
Youth Centric:
The ability to understand the factors that influence youth’s lives; awareness and support of youth’s rights and responsibilities; The ability to be respectful, genuine, honest, and accountable to the youth served; The ability to understand your role and the organization’s role in the life of youth; The ability to respect youth’s identities, preferences, needs, culture, and diversity; The ability to understand developmental issues that youth face.
Cultural Competency:
Promotes and supports diversity; functions effectively within a new cultural context; interacts and responds effectively across cultures in a way that acknowledges and respects people of different cultural backgrounds. Values all people for their unique talents and actively promotes practices that support diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence.
Active Listening:
Is actively able to process information to understand; can listen and meet the needs of youth and stakeholders; handles and utilizes feedback effectively; listens with depth and thoughtfulness.
Foster Teamwork and Collaboration:
Fosters teamwork and participation; the ability to collaborate with others effectively and efficiently; the ability to build trust, respect, and rapport with stakeholders; encourages others to share their ideas, clarify, restate, and validate any concerns, and strategically work toward a collaborative resolution; actively supports and promotes YAP culture. Recognizes and acts on the need to continually develop others’ capabilities to attain the highest level of performance possible.
Results/Outcome Oriented:
Efficiently and effectively can meet personal and agency goals successfully; sets clear objectives and measures process and progress; Takes the initiative in discussing alternative solutions to meet goals successfully; can be solution-driven, problem-solve, pivot as needed, and support leadership and the agency goals.
Promotes Vision and Mission:
Promotes, understands, and supports the Youth Action Project’s mission to empower youth and young adults to develop skills and habits needed for economic and social success. Promotes, understands, and supports Youth Action Project’s vision that all youth graduate from high school, transition into post-secondary education, and enter meaningful employment or entrepreneurial ventures by age 25.
Disclaimers:
This position has been designated as “grant-funded” and is contingent upon the availability of adequate funding. Should funding be canceled at any time by the funding agency, the position will be eliminated unless alternate grant funds are secured.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the Youth Action Project, Inc. provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, familial status, disability, or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. Youth Action Project, Inc. hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.
Youth Action Project, Inc. reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunities and/or perform the job's essential functions unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the Company. This applies to all applicants and employees.
Youth Action Project, Inc. also provides a work environment where employees can be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation, bullying, discrimination, or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all employees and applicants.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are essential components of everyday life at Youth Action Project, Inc., and are critical to our vision of “Empowering Communities One Youth at a Time.”
We aim to foster a culture where every person feels valued, supported, and inspired to achieve individual and common goals with an uncommon will. This includes providing opportunity and access for all people across differences of race, age, color, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, disability/abilities, veteran status, and socioeconomic background.
NOTE: This position requires candidates to complete our online application, which can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/YAPSLSunrise
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