Youth Development Specialist

What You Will Be Doing

• Breaking down crucial life skills into core components and mastery benchmarks for students from Kindergarten to 8th grade.
• Researching, brainstorming, and developing simulations and projects that mimic real-world situations and challenges.
• Developing workshop plans, ensuring each script includes clear instructions that make it easy for any facilitator to deliver
• Creating mastery-based assessments that allow students to demonstrate their learning
• Writing course descriptions that are informational, exciting, and convincing
• Continuously polishing and refining workshop content, utilizing feedback from students and facilitators to ensure a continuously evolving and top-tier quality curriculum
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Following a rigid standardized curriculum without room for creativity and innovation.
• Lecturing students; you’ll be creating plans for student-driven projects that Guides will facilitate
• Playing it safe; you’ll chart innovative paths forward and lean into experimentation
  

Youth Development Specialist Key Responsibilities

Designing and delivering interactive workshops that teach life skills to K-8 students.

Basic Requirements

• A university degree in any subject
• A passion for life skills
• Experience working directly with kids as a camp counselor, tutor, teacher aide, or in a similar role
• Experience designing workshops, programs, trainings, or curricula in a professional setting
  

About Alpha

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