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At Uptown Stories, we are a small but mighty team committed to empowering the young voices of uptown Manhattan. Want to join us? Check out our open positions below, and follow us on LinkedIn for more opportunities to join the team!
Uptown Stories is seeking a Part-Time Site Coordinator for our afterschool program in an upper Manhattan elementary school. The Site Coordinator will play a key role in the management of the program, ensuring the Elements of Fiction writing workshops run smoothly while overseeing staff, developing curriculum, conducting community outreach activities, and maintaining a safe and enriching environment for our young writers. The Site Coordinator must be an expert communicator and multitasker, able to balance the hands-on responsibilities of leading an afterschool program, being a support for students, staff, and families, with a variety of administrative responsibilities. Site Coordinator must be SAC-credentialed.
Salary: $25/hour
Schedule: M-F, 3-5:45pm
Location: Upper Manhattan
Key Responsibilities:
Administrative
- Prepare program performance reports
- Complete contract reporting/claims
- Track and purchase supplies
- General bookkeeping/accounting
- Hiring staff/HR functions
- Complete and monitor enrollment data
Hands-On
- Direct care, discipline & staff development/training
- Curriculum development/lesson planning
- Conduct community/parent outreach activities
- Provide student activities & supports
- Program set-up and clean-up
- Monitor student arrival and departures, take attendance
- Program staff planning sessions & debriefs on any issues
- Provide classroom support for breaks/in-classroom supervision
- Case management; coordinate with school staff and parents to ensure linkages with curriculum, behavioral issues, speech therapy, ELL, social-emotional issues, accommodations, etc.
- Attend SACC and Program Activity or Instructional Training
Required Skills/Experience:
- College degree in a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with youth
- SAC certification
- CPR/First Aid/RTE certification
How to Apply
If you would like to become a part of our dynamic and creative Uptown Stories team, complete this online application and submit your resume/CV.
Uptown Stories is seeking a Part-Time Site Coordinator for our afterschool program in an upper Manhattan elementary school. The Site Coordinator will play a key role in the management of the program, ensuring the Playwriting/Improv workshops run smoothly while overseeing staff, developing curriculum, conducting community outreach activities, and maintaining a safe and enriching environment for our young writers. The Site Coordinator must be an expert communicator and multitasker, able to balance the hands-on responsibilities of leading an afterschool program, being a support for students, staff, and families, with a variety of administrative responsibilities. Site Coordinator must be SAC-credentialed.
Salary: $25/hour
Schedule: M-F, 3-5:45pm
Location: Upper Manhattan
Key Responsibilities:
Administrative
- Prepare program performance reports
- Complete contract reporting/claims
- Track and purchase supplies
- General bookkeeping/accounting
- Hiring staff/HR functions
- Complete and monitor enrollment data
Hands-On
- Direct care, discipline & staff development/training
- Curriculum development/lesson planning
- Conduct community/parent outreach activities
- Provide student activities & supports
- Program set-up and clean-up
- Monitor student arrival and departures, take attendance
- Program staff planning sessions & debriefs on any issues
- Provide classroom support for breaks/in-classroom supervision
- Case management; coordinate with school staff and parents to ensure linkages with curriculum, behavioral issues, speech therapy, ELL, social-emotional issues, accommodations, etc.
- Attend SACC and Program Activity or Instructional Training
Required Skills/Experience:
- College degree in a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with youth
- SAC certification
- CPR/First Aid/RTE certification
How to Apply
If you would like to become a part of our dynamic and creative Uptown Stories team, complete this online application and submit your resume/CV.
Uptown Stories is seeking a Part-Time Site Coordinator for our afterschool program in an upper Manhattan elementary school. The Site Coordinator will play a key role in the management of the program, ensuring the Writing & Drawing Comics workshops run smoothly while overseeing staff, developing curriculum, conducting community outreach activities, and maintaining a safe and enriching environment for our young writers. The Site Coordinator must be an expert communicator and multitasker, able to balance the hands-on responsibilities of leading an afterschool program, being a support for students, staff, and families, with a variety of administrative responsibilities. Site Coordinator must be SAC-credentialed.
Salary: $25/hour
Schedule: M-F, 3-5:45pm
Location: Upper Manhattan
Key Responsibilities:
Administrative
- Prepare program performance reports
- Complete contract reporting/claims
- Track and purchase supplies
- General bookkeeping/accounting
- Hiring staff/HR functions
- Complete and monitor enrollment data
Hands-On
- Direct care, discipline & staff development/training
- Curriculum development/lesson planning
- Conduct community/parent outreach activities
- Provide student activities & supports
- Program set-up and clean-up
- Monitor student arrival and departures, take attendance
- Program staff planning sessions & debriefs on any issues
- Provide classroom support for breaks/in-classroom supervision
- Case management; coordinate with school staff and parents to ensure linkages with curriculum, behavioral issues, speech therapy, ELL, social-emotional issues, accommodations, etc.
- Attend SACC and Program Activity or Instructional Training
Required Skills/Experience:
- College degree in a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with youth
- SAC certification
- CPR/First Aid/RTE certification
How to Apply
If you would like to become a part of our dynamic and creative Uptown Stories team, complete this online application and submit your resume/CV.
Based in Washington Heights, Uptown Stories offers after-school, weekend, and summer creative writing workshops for children ages 8-18. We are seeking rockstar Teaching Artists, who are also professional authors and artists, to lead our creative writing workshops. Have a genre you’re passionate about? Tell us why you think your workshop would be an exciting addition to our programming.
All classes should be structured primarily as workshops, where the students learn the art and craft of writing, revision, and how to give and receive constructive feedback, creating a community of young authors and artists. Each workshop ends with a celebratory reading at Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights, and the publication of a paperback anthology, so every student leaves our program as a published author.
We are looking for Teaching Artists who write terrific curricula, who are dynamic and engaging in the classroom, who are self-reliant and responsible, who can differentiate instruction for different ages and abilities, and who, most of all, feel passionate about the craft and the art of writing. Teaching Artists are expected to help set up and break down the classroom space, maintain regular email contact with families regarding class progress, and be responsive to emails from students about their work. Uptown Stories will handle enrollment, space, billing, and provide materials and snacks.
All applicants must:
- Have 4+ years of professional experience teaching children within the age range of 8-18
- Have at least 1 year of professional experience teaching creative writing
- Be practicing writers or artists in their field of expertise