Mentorship and Afterschool Program Manager

South Asian Youth Action Inc.

Elmhurst, NY 14701, USA

Published: 6/14/2022

Education

Full Time

Job Description

Mentorship and Afterschool Program Manager

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is committed to providing its employees opportunities for growth in a supportive community environment. SAYA provides its employees a healthy work-life balance in a fast-growing youth development nonprofit.

SAYA: Belong. Grow. Thrive.

Organization Description

South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is an inclusive, South Asian-focused 501(c)3 youth development organization. Through our innovative, holistic approach, we work toward educational equity by providing opportunities and resources to less privileged New York City youth, ensuring they are empowered academically, emotionally, and socially to become engaged community members.

Established in 1996, SAYA provides valuable life skills and holistic, impactful programming to underserved New York City youth. As one of the first South Asian organizations created in the United States, SAYA is the only organization of its kind in the NYC metropolitan area providing inclusive and secular comprehensive youth development services while centering our community’s experiences. Today, SAYA provides programming at eleven elementary, middle, and high schools in Queens and Brooklyn, along with our Elmhurst-based community center - serving a growing number of youths across all sites each year.

A key tenet of our work is cultivating vital social and emotional learning (SEL) skills such as belonging, confidence, and self-efficacy through intentionally designed, research-based curricula. Across our organization, services tailored for different age groups include leadership and identity development, academic support that bridges learning gaps, comprehensive college preparation, and activities that nurture creativity and build positive peer connections.

NYC Community Schools Initiative

The NYC Community Schools Initiative is aimed at bridging students, families, and communities with comprehensive social, emotional, and academic support to achieve successful student outcomes. At Richmond Hill High School (RHHS), these desired outcomes include: increased attendance and student engagement; greater connectedness to adults and peers; development of social and emotional skills; greater access to mental health resources; improved academic performance; improved school culture and climate; increased family engagement; and greater collaboration among community partners and school administration.

Position Summary

The Mentorship and Afterschool Manager will provide oversight of 10 + afterschool clubs; success mentorship attendance intervention; youth leadership and enrichment building activities; and general administrative duties at RHHS. Additionally, they will serve as a strategic partner to the Community School Director.

Reports To: Community School Director

Supervises: Afterschool Club Activity Specialists and additional program staff as determined by the Community School Director (CSD)

Compensation: $65,000-75,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications

Responsibilities

Afterschool Club and Lunchtime Programming:

Manage all aspects of afterschool and lunchtime clubs.
Coordinate all club-related activities, trips and special events.
Collaborate with colleagues to promote SAYA clubs through outreach efforts (email, social media, classroom, and cafeteria visits) and supervise club advisors in sustaining consistent recruitment and retention.
Review curricula, unit and lesson plans created by club advisors to ensure activities integrate culturally-responsive, socially conscious, and social-emotional learning (SEL) skills.
Liaise with in-school staff, vendors, and external stakeholders to coordinate space, food, supplies, and visitors for club programming
Collaborate with staff, student leaders, and alumni mentors to ensure timely purchase orders and proper distribution of all materials and resources.
Ensure proper tracking, organization, and record-keeping of attendance sheets, applications, event and trip forms, and other documentation.
Work with the Community School Director to ensure proper club budget monitoring .
Support training and growth of club advisors and student leaders.

Mentorship, Post-Secondary and Special Events

Work with Community School Director, Wellness Center staff, attendance Success Mentor team, and RHHS staff to plan and facilitate youth, parent, and community-based activities, workshops, and special events.
Partner with School’s Academy Directors to plan career-related experiences and events.
Oversee various mentoring initiatives, ensuring effective implementation, participant engagement, and progress tracking.
Collaborate with school staff and SAYA’s postsecondary team to provide students with guidance, resources, and opportunities that support their college and career readiness.

Deepening of Community School Strategy and Measuring Impact

Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Community School Director on continuously improving, deepening and expanding SAYA’s role as a community school partner at Richmond Hill High School.
Build partnerships with school administrators and other key staff.
Support Community School Director in training staff and students with integrating SEL, socially conscious, and culturally relevant material within in-school and afterschool programming.
Participate in school-wide Community School Initiatives, including vision screenings and glasses distribution, immigration legal support clinics, and other initiatives as assigned.
Implement SEL assessment tools in afterschool and other enrichment activities.

The above is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by this

position. Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change

the duties at any time.

Qualifications:

Bachelor degree in relevant fields (Education, Social Work, Youth Development)
At least 4 years of experience managing after-school programs in the nonprofit sector and facilitating workshops with high school youth in public school settings, preferably in collaboration with NYC public schools.
Committed to frameworks of social justice, social-emotional learning (SEL), positive youth development, and culturally responsive sustaining education (CRSE), with experience coordinating programs grounded in critical pedagogy.
Outstanding outreach, verbal, written communication and public speaking skills
Highly flexible, detail-oriented, and open to feedback, with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt creatively to changing program needs in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent proficiency in Canva and Google Suite, including Google Spreadsheet, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drive, Google Forms, MS-Excel
Understanding of issues facing immigrant youth, youth of color, working class, and undocumented youth in the US
Willingness to support larger SAYA and SAYA RHHS team with various tasks as is needed, must be open to and contribute to supportive team culture across programs
Bilingual highly preferred (Spanish, Punjabi, Arabic)

Additional Information

This position is in-person
While we value work/life balance, due to the nature of this position, this role will sometimes require work on evenings and weekends. Must be able to work occasional early mornings, evenings, and weekends between September 2025- June 2026 (about 30 days spread throughout the year)
Must be available and comfortable traveling with students and/or families from school location to other schools/organizations as needed
Must be comfortable with periodic commute and occasional transfer of items between school and SAYA central office, and other designated locations as assigned or as is needed

SAYA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Employer.