8-16 hours per week // $15 per hour
Purpose: To ensure effectiveness and efficiency of the overall operations of an after-school program location.
Experience and Knowledge Required:
- Heart for children, parents, and communities
- Ability to communicate the Gospel through various means to children and adults
- Proven ability to lead teams
- Administrative experience
- Strong communication skills
- Superior interpersonal skills working with a variety of people
- Positive attitude and positive approach to problem solving, solution-oriented
- Good steward of time and resources
- Self-starter and can champion new initiatives
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Leader of after school programming in one location and assistant leader at a second location
- Provide oversight, leadership, and direction to the location’s team through huddles before and after programming and communication throughout the week
- Plan programming (I.e., devotionals, activities, coordinate meals, etc.)
- Grow the influence of the Dream Center at the location and in the surrounding community
- Build relationships with parents and families at the location
- Develop relationships with local school or church partner
- Grow enrollment to the capacity of the location
- Engage children grades kindergarten through twelfth grade in the Dream Center Family Outreach experience
- Ensure team leaders and volunteers are creating a safe, clean, and age-appropriate environment for students at the location
- Check volunteer schedule regularly
- Recruit new volunteers and develop existing volunteers
- Lead and build teams to assist in executing all aspects of weekly programming
- Communicate consistently with volunteers to ensure alignment of policy and procedure
- Respond to emergencies/urgent issues as they arise
- Communicate with students and their parents when a disciplinary decision has been made
- Communicate in ways that create long-term and ongoing influence in the lives of students and families, especially as the school year ends
- Participate and lead at annual events (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Talent Show)
- Update metrics every day of programming
- Perform any other tasks requested by Dream Center’s central team
Expectations:
- Must fully embrace the mission, vision, and values of Columbus Dream Center
- Conscious of the need for confidentiality and discernment in sensitive situations
- Responsible for stewarding the Dream Center’s resources
- Participate in staff meetings and Family Outreach specific meetings
- Operate with a spirit of excellence
- Maintain personal spiritual development through Bible reading, prayer, and Christian community