Position/Title: Site Coordinator, Everyday Play Program

Employment Period: Jun 27, 2022 - Aug 31, 2022

Salary Range: $30 per hour, based on experience (14 -18 hours / week M-Th)

ABOUT CITY PARKS FOUNDATION

City Parks Foundation (CPF) is the only independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to offer programs in public parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. At CPF, we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through arts, environmental education, sports, and community building programs for all New Yorkers. Our ethos is simple: we believe thriving parks mean thriving communities.

• Our free golf, tennis, track & field, soccer, and fitness programs bring high-quality instruction and equipment into parks where few organized athletic opportunities exist. We offer leveled training, year-round scholarship coaching, and special pro events before the US Open.

• We produce SummerStage, the largest free, outdoor performing arts festival in NYC, presenting world-class artists from across the globe and our own neighborhoods on our mainstage in Central Park and in local parks in all five boroughs, and our Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre and roving PuppetMobile present marionette puppet theater throughout New York City.

• Partnerships for Parks, a public-private program of City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks, supports and champions a growing network of community leaders who care and advocate for the transformation of our neighborhood parks.

• We connect youngsters to nature in the urban environment through progressive, experiential teaching. Using parks as classrooms, we provide learning experiences and hands-on activities in urban forests, coastal areas, and gardens.

POSITION SUMMARY

CPFs free citywide sports programs for children are among the most ambitious and successful in New York City and the country. In 2016, CPF introduced a new, free program called Everyday Play, which offered all of our core sports (tennis, golf, track & soccer) at specific park locations to allow students to try a variety of different activities every day for a 6-week period over the summer. The program is scheduled to run in 3 parks in 2022: Kaiser Park - Brooklyn, Baisley Pond Park - Queens & Williamsbridge Oval - Bronx

CPF is seeking to hire experienced coaches or teachers to serve as the site coordinator for each of the locations. The program is held Monday - Thursday, from 9am - 12pm. Site coordinators will serve at the main point of contact on-site for all program staff, parents and students. The site coordinator will be a seasonal employee of the City Parks Play department and report to the Associate Director of Sports.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate and teach daily lessons

• Organize groups of children in an orderly and safe manner

• May be required to transfer equipment to/from sites

• Monitor weekly attendance and maintain accurate records of class participants

• Answer questions from parents and promote whenever possible to the community