The Child Center of NY strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives. Founded in 1953, The Child Center of NY has become a powerful community presence throughout the city. With 50 locations and 100 programs in NYC’s most under-served communities, our 1,000+ results-oriented professionals make a difference for more than 40,000 children and their families each year.
Program Coordinator
- Collaborate with primary counselors to identify students’ career interests and develop ideas for individually tailored internship placements.
- Develop internships in a diverse range of employment fields to match students’ interests, skills, maturity levels and experience.
- Maintain all paperwork associated with internship placement process, including hiring packets, timesheets etc. and enter all case notes into Sales Force before the 31st of the month.
- Plan and execute career panels, fairs and workshops in collaboration with other primary counselors.
- Provide guidance to employers on maximizing internship experiences by working effectively with adolescents.
- Provide support to employers and students during internships in the form of phone calls, meetings and site visits.
- Conduct attendance outreach and home visits to support program monthly milestones.
- Facilitate weekly seminars, Job Club, for students that focus on building students’ skills in education and career development.
- Assist students’ post-internship with future employment and provide educational and career development counseling and support.
- Plan, implement and execute all aspects of the recruitment process.
- Create a post-secondary plan for regents’ only case load and manage regent only case load.
- Overall supervisory responsibility over internship program planning, reporting, tracking, program development and implementation, assessment and evaluation, and contract compliance.
- Responsible for all social media efforts as it pertains to the Summer Youth Employment Program
- Meet with staff from SYEP sites to share learning, compare approaches and develop new program ideas.
- Responsible for collaboration with DOE in many different aspects (Events, daily operations, trips, committees).
- Assist with out-of-school issues and provide crisis intervention as needed.
- Engage students’ families to support positive outcomes for the students.
- May perform all duties related to carrying a primary counselor caseload, including attendance outreach, one-on-one counseling and group advisory.
- Support the day-to-day operations of the site when PD is off site.
- The Internship Coordinator may perform other duties as assigned by the Director.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associates Degree in Social Work, Education, or related field.
- Bilingual in one or more of the following: Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Bengali and others, may be required depending on client needs.
- 2 years’ running a school-based program.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Ability to plan and carry out assignments independently.
- Ability to prioritize, adhere to timelines and multi-task.
Hours: 11:00 am-6:00 pm
Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Pay rate: $22.00-24.00
Qualifications Preferred:
- Bachelor Degree in Education, Social Work or other related field.
The Child Center of NY is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status or any other category protected by Federal, State or local law. EOE M/F/D/V
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