Student Services Coordinator (After-School Care)

Role and Responsibilities

The After-School Care Coordinator plays an important role in building relationships with students in After-School Care. Students from Lake Hills Elementary spend their time at Jubilee REACH while they wait to be picked up to go home.

The responsibility in this role is to build healthy relationships with students, parents, volunteers, and coworkers. The person in this position ensures every child is known, loved, affirmed, and experiences a sense of belonging. Some of the basic functions in this role require assistance in planning, organizing, facilitating, teaching, and monitoring the activities students participate in. Activities planned for students are intended for them to build relationships with each other and others as they engage in intellectual, creative, artistic, and physical ways.

I. Qualifications

  • Must be 18 years or older

  • Pass Federal fingerprint and State (WSP) background check and reference check

  • Minimum HS diploma or GED equivalent

  • Posses a heart to serve and to love all, especially the ones who can be most difficult to love

  • Minimum of 6 months of experience working with youth

II. Skills Required

  • Strength of presence, patience, and perseverance

  • Social/emotional intelligence and the desire to serve humbly and compassionately

  • Ability to build relationships with students, parents, volunteers, and staff

  • Core values of trustworthiness and integrity of character

  • Excellence in follow-through and follow-up on details

  • Ability to “go to” and manage conflict well

III. Areas of Responsibility and Quality Execution

  • Staff work from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm on Wednesdays

  • The person in this role primarily works alongside the Student Services Specialist

  • Support and serve all onsite JR staff and volunteers

  • Account for every student daily, including one-on-one “check and connects”

  • Assistant in the planning and implementation of daily programs to meet the needs of the children in attendance; setup program, project, and activity areas as needed

  • Interact with children in an effort to build self-esteem and form a comfort level with their peers; answer student questions, provide proper examples, emotional support, a friendly attitude, and general guidance

  • Assist in maintaining a clean and organized environment for students; demonstrate and involve students in cleaning and organizing program activity areas before, during, and after use.

 
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