Out of School Time Program Manager - Community in Schools

• Build and maintain strong relationships with school partners and CRCL staff
• Work with the Social Emotional Learning specialist to assist schools and the before and afterschool programs with providing restorative practices and positive behavioral systems and interventions
• Create a schedule of high-quality afterschool programs with both school staff and outside agencies.
• Ensure staff are planning and facilitating high quality youth development as assessed by the Weikart Youth Program Quality tools.
• Ensure all Nita M. Lowey 21st century grant deliverables are met including evaluations and proper documentation needed for on-site visits
• Build positive relationships parents, students, school staff and community partners
• Support staff with building confidence in facilitation and positive parent engagement
• Manage crisis situations in a calm and effective manner
• Provide in-class facilitation modeling with the goal of building staff skills when necessary.
• Ensure all before and afterschool contracted clubs such as Lego club, Dance etc are paid in a timely manner.
• Ensure proper staffing across all OST Community in Schools program locations.
• Provide reflective supervision with OST mentors
• Ensure all behavior and goal setting discussions between staff/volunteers and youth/families is strengths based, youth centric and solution focused
• Ensure all OST staff are maintaining all supplies, classroom, maker space and common use areas
• Work with eligibility team to recruit, enroll and maintain the minimum number of 21st century before and after school students in each program.
• Fulfill all grant requirements and reporting
• Participate in staff meetings, training sessions, conferences, workshops, and other professional development activities

• Evaluate and coach staff on high quality activity plans
• Ability to resolve problems, handle conflict, and make effective decisions under pressure.

• Demonstrate respect, understanding and patience to all youth and adults from all cultural backgrounds, with an appreciation for their interests, creativity, capabilities, beauty, and means of expression.

• Comply and adhere to all compliance and licensure standards, including local, state and national regulatory entities
• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk or bend, for prolonged periods.
• Physical agility to attend to the activity levels of youth.
• Perform other duties as assigned

COMPETENCIES

• Values—ability to demonstrate in word and action the Center’s core values and deep commitment to the mission, vision, priorities and needs of the organization and the diverse communities it serves.
• Inclusion—values all people for their unique talents and perspectives and promotes practices that promote and provide equal access to opportunities and resources that enable employees to contribute fully to the organization’s success.
• Relationships—ability to build authentic relationships in the service of enhancing individual and team performances to support the Center’s work.
• Change Capacity—leads self and others by demonstrating the ability to pivot and respond to unpredictable, disruptive, and ambiguous situations. Develop processes, tools, and techniques used to advance desired organizational outcomes and manage change effectively.
• Results-Proven Track Record—demonstrable ability to exceed goals with a bottom-line orientation; evidence of the ability to consistently make good decisions through a combination of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; high level of business acumen including successful P&L management; the ability to balance the delivery of programs against the realities of a budget; and problem solving, project management, and creative resourcefulness.
• Strategic Vision and Agility—ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into the organizational plan.
• Innovation—ability to form ideas that are new and enhanced, while introducing constructive ways of looking at problems that foster creativity interdisciplinary/cross-functional work.