Job description

PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR
Youth Design Program

POSITION DETAILS
Salary Range: $26.55/hr
Hours: Contractor - up to 16 per week
Expected Start Date: 4/14/2023
Expected End Date: 6/12/2024
Reports to: Design Program Director

Location: virtual, must be available Tuesday afternoons and evenings

Created in 2015 byWomen of Color, ELSO, Inc. provides culturally relevant education and leadership development opportunities that invite Youth of Color to Experience Life ScienceOutdoors (ELSO). Ourmission is to teach and frame STEAM and nature-based education through a lens that centers and elevates the stories, ways of knowing, individual needs, and lived experiences of Black and Brown communities. ELSO seeks to reduce the achievement gap in STEAMED (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, Environment, Design) education and professions while creating a sense of belonging for Black, Indigenous and People of Color in the natural and built environments. ELSO uses amulti-cultural approach to STEAMED education that is rooted in environmental justice and cultural history.We are demonstrating amodel for STEAMED education led by People of Color.

Youth Design Program formerly known as Your Street Your Voice (YSYV) - aims to enable leadership and agency for youth to use design as a tool for racial justice. Our design program aims to expand our youth’s STEAMED career pathways to include the professions in the built environment, while widening their exposure to green sector careers. Through this vital opportunity, participants can find their STEAM identities and learn about designing public spaces, the power of place, and health equity for under-resourced communities. There are no student fees for design program events. Instead, we ensure participants receive a scholarship stipend as a just and direct response to historic barriers that keep Black and Brown people out of the Architectural, Engineering, Construction, andDesign (AECD) industry.

Using a design studio format, through collaborationwith the AECD industry, and community partners, the Youth Design Program empowers students to be agents of change as designers and activists for justice in their communities.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Youth Design Program Instructor is a key program support role. Instructors cultivate a positive affirming culture for participants to imagine, vision and develop designs for future communities. Program Instructors lead 8week cohorts of 15 young adults through the design and development of a project. Instructors work collaboratively with guest professionals and facilitate participants to develop the technical skills of design. In addition to supervising cohort participants, Program Instructors are the primary adults responsible for Youth Design Program participants safety and security.

With the supervision and guidance of the ProgramDirector, Program Instructors will teach and demonstrate the

ELSO values, community agreements, and lead participants in restorative justice practices for conflict resolution.

ELSO temporary staff members and volunteers are responsible and positive role models who reflect the diversity of the cohort participants.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Cohort Development (20%)

Work with Program Director to develop programs including syllabus & curriculum, community partners, participant recruitment, and public events

● Support the development cohort curriculumwithin ELSOmission and program framework

● Identify key industry and community leaders to be engaged in guest instruction

● Coordination of planningmeetings and ensuring all paperwork and contracts are establishedwith ELSOSpecial Operations Team

● In Collaboration with Communications team, manage application process for youth participants

● Develop, assemble and distribute design tool kits to youth participants

● Support the logistics and planning of the public Vital Voices final presentationCohort Instruction (60%)

Cohort Instruction (60%)

Instruct class of up to 15 youth participants over 8 weeks

● Responsible for setting up Zoom links, sending out weekly student communication (via email, and phone) and preparing all materials in advance of each session

● Solicit and respond to feedback from youth participants to continue to grow the cultural competency of the program as a whole

● Serve as role model andmentor for cohort participants and volunteers

● Share out in virtual program teammeetings when needed to develop cohort sessions

● Support the onboarding and preparation of guest instructors and volunteers

● Enforce Community Agreements as needed, follow behavioral management and safety protocols, assume responsibility for behavioral management of participants and problem solving issues as they arise using a Restorative Justice approach

● Ensure health and safety of participants (including emotional, and physical well being) with practices such as listening, watching, and reporting any safety or behavior issues that interfere with youth’s ability to participate fully in the program

Cohort Administration (20%)

● Support the ProgramDirector in collecting and sharing anecdotes in ELSOCommunications.

● Provide administrative and training support to guest instructors

● Support the ProgramDirector parent and family communication with participants

● Coordinate with Operations Team to submit paperwork and billing information for participant stipends, guest speaker honorariums, partner payments, purchasing, etc.

● Assist Youth Design ProgramDirector and collaborate with participants to fulfill administrative tasks.

● Work alongside the ProgramDirector to implement post-program follow up including surveying and evaluation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

● 21+High School Graduate, or GED complete, can be currently in college, with design experience

● Experience in learning, designing, and implementing curriculum and programming for youth ages 14-20

● Volunteer and/or work experience with youth ages 14-20 in an after school or classroom setting and/ or outdoor setting

● Experience working with culturally competent lessons and activities for Youth of Color from diverse backgrounds

● Proficiency with Zoom, Adobe Acrobat, Google applications such as gmail, drive, docs, sheets, slides, forms, etc., as well as presentation and instructional software such asMiro and Sketchup.

● Must be able to pass a background check as required by theOregonDepartment of Education for positions that work directly with youth (Oregon State Department of Education Disqualifying Crimes 342.143) and have clean driving record for 1 year prior to application

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

● Passion and experience in guiding Black and Brown youth through student-driven learning experiences

● Experience in Design/ Construction Industries iIncluding, but not limited to: architecture, engineering, landscape, development, planning, construction

● Familiarity with and ability to share a justice lens, through design frameworks including: Design as Protest,Spatial Justice principles, environmental justice principles, and Black SpaceManifesto

BENEFITS

● Flexible Schedule

TO APPLY:
Send a resume and communication of interest (cover letter, email and videos are accepted) to Design Program Director at jobs@campelso.org Open until filled.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: Up to $26.55 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Flexible schedule

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

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