Join Our Team
At Uptown Stories, we are a small but mighty team committed to empowering the young voices of uptown Manhattan. Want to join us? Check out our open positions below, and follow us on LinkedIn for more opportunities to join the team!
Time Requirements: Winter: January - March (15 hrs/week for 12 weeks)
Stipend: $500
The Development Intern works alongside the Executive Director and the Development Associate to raise the funds required to operate the organization. They will learn and practice researching, writing, and reporting on grants, stewarding major donors, and partnering with foundations and local businesses. They may do analysis or visualization of our registration data, or research studies that support Uptown Stories’ theory of change.
Key Responsibilities: Look through relevant research for information we can use in future grants; analyze registration data; explore new grants our organization can apply for funding; write and submit grants; other development tasks as needed.
Ideal Skills: Grant writing; Data Visualization; Google Drive, Sheets, and Docs; Analytics; Research Skills; AirTable
Time Requirements: Winter: January - March (15 hrs/week for 12 weeks)
Stipend: $500
The Social Media Intern works alongside the Marketing & Operations Director and the Marketing & Operations Coordinator.
Key Responsibilities:
- Present and craft new strategies for utilizing Uptown Stories social media
- Create social media timelines
- Collaborate with Marketing & Operations Coordinator on ideation, design, and application
- Monitor and respond to comments, messages, etc. across social platforms
- Track social media analytics across platforms, bringing them into conversation with the Marketing & Operations Director and Coordinator, and using the information to inform your strategy
Ideal Skills: Strong familiarity with Instagram and Facebook, previous experience managing social media accounts, graphic design (Canva, Adobe Photoshop, etc.), organization and time management, ability to complete independent work in balance with set collaboration sessions, and strong communication.
Uptown Stories is seeking two Part-Time Site Coordinator for our afterschool programs in an upper Manhattan elementary school. The Site Coordinator will play a key role in the management of the program, ensuring the our writing workshops run smoothly while assisting staff, conducting community outreach activities, and maintaining a safe and enriching environment for our young writers. The Site Coordinator must be an expert communicator and multitasker, able to balance the hands-on responsibilities of being part of the afterschool program, being a support for students, staff, and families, with a variety of administrative responsibilities. Site Coordinator must be SAC-credentialed OR have a degree in education/child development.
Salary: $25/hour
Schedule: M-F, 2:30-5:00pm
Location: Upper Manhattan
Key Responsibilities:
Administrative
- Prepare program performance reports
- Complete contract reporting/claims
- Track and purchase supplies
- Complete and monitor enrollment data
Hands-On
- Direct care of students & staff development/training
- Conduct community/parent outreach activities
- Provide student activities & supports
- Program set-up and clean-up
- Monitor student arrival and departures, take attendance
- Program staff planning sessions & debriefs on any issues
- Provide classroom support for breaks/in-classroom supervision
- Attend SACC and Program Activity or Instructional Training
Required Skills/Experience:
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with youth
- High school diploma
- Preferred: College degree in a related field OR SAC certification
How to Apply
If you would like to become a part of our dynamic and creative Uptown Stories team, complete this online application and submit your resume/CV.
Based in Washington Heights, Uptown Stories offers after-school, weekend, and summer creative writing workshops for children ages 8-18. We are seeking rockstar Teaching Artists, who are also professional authors and artists, to lead our creative writing workshops. Have a genre you’re passionate about? Tell us why you think your workshop would be an exciting addition to our programming.
All classes should be structured primarily as workshops, where the students learn the art and craft of writing, revision, and how to give and receive constructive feedback, creating a community of young authors and artists. Each workshop ends with a celebratory reading at Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights, and the publication of a paperback anthology, so every student leaves our program as a published author.
We are looking for Teaching Artists who write terrific curricula, who are dynamic and engaging in the classroom, who are self-reliant and responsible, who can differentiate instruction for different ages and abilities, and who, most of all, feel passionate about the craft and the art of writing. Teaching Artists are expected to help set up and break down the classroom space, maintain regular email contact with families regarding class progress, and be responsive to emails from students about their work. Uptown Stories will handle enrollment, space, billing, and provide materials and snacks.
All applicants must:
- Have 4+ years of professional experience teaching children within the age range of 8-18
- Have at least 1 year of professional experience teaching creative writing
- Be practicing writers or artists in their field of expertise
Time Requirements: Winter: January - March (15 hrs/week for 12 weeks)
Stipend: $500
The Publishing Intern works alongside our Programming Director to organize and edit our students' work and help publish our printed anthology books. They will also develop Kindle editions of our previous anthologies and select excerpts to be shared by our marketing team. They will also have an opportunity to learn CMS tools and publish pieces onto our student literary website, UptownInk.org.
Key Responsibilities: Collect and edit student writing; use a style guide to ensure consistency throughout the anthology book; select and develop excerpts of students' stories; publish work onto our student website; help with distribution to local vendors; other publishing tasks as needed.
Ideal Skills: Adobe InDesign, Google Docs, Google Sheets, WordPress, Writing; Editing; Journalism; Newspapers;