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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
Uptown Stories is seeking a Part-Time Site Coordinator for our afterschool program 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: $37/hour
Schedule: M-F, 3-5pm
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:
- College degree in a related field OR SAC certification
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with youth
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.
Uptown Stories is seeking a Part-Time Site Coordinator for our afterschool program in an upper Manhattan elementary school. The Site Coordinator will play a key role in the management of the program, ensuring the Writing & Drawing Comics workshops run smoothly while overseeing staff, developing curriculum, 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 leading an afterschool program, being a support for students, staff, and families, with a variety of administrative responsibilities. Site Coordinator must be SAC-credentialed.
Based in Washington Heights, Uptown Stories offers after-school, weekend, and summer creative writing workshops for children ages 8-18, led by rockstar teachers, who are also professional authors and artists.
Students learn the art and craft of writing, how to revise their work, and how to give and receive constructive feedback. Each workshop ends with a celebratory reading at the Word Up Bookshop in Washington Heights, and the publication of a paperback anthology, so every student leaves our program as a published author.
To ensure our program is accessible to our ethnically and economically diverse community, our tuition is “Pay-What-You-Can.” Uptown Stories creates an exciting, challenging, and supportive community where young authors thrive.
Salary: $25/hour
Schedule: M-F, 3-5:45pm
Location: Upper Manhattan
Key Responsibilities:
Administrative
- Prepare program performance reports
- Complete contract reporting/claims
- Track and purchase supplies
- General bookkeeping/accounting
- Hiring staff/HR functions
- Complete and monitor enrollment data
Hands-On
- Direct care, discipline & staff development/training
- Curriculum development/lesson planning
- 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
- Case management; coordinate with school staff and parents to ensure linkages with curriculum, behavioral issues, speech therapy, ELL, social-emotional issues, accommodations, etc.
- Attend SACC and Program Activity or Instructional Training
Required Skills/Experience:
- College degree in a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with youth
- SAC certification
- CPR/First Aid/RTE 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.
Uptown Stories, a federally approved non-profit creative writing program in Washington Heights, is hiring rock-star writing teachers to develop and lead new after school workshops. We are looking for teachers who write terrific curriculum, who are dynamic and engaging in the classroom, who are self-reliant and responsible, who can differentiate instruction for different ages and different abilities, who enjoy teaching kids within the age range of 8-18 years, and who, most of all, feel passionate about the craft and the art of writing.
We want our teachers to follow their passions, and we’re open to any genre or form — if you have a great idea, tell us about it. All classes should be structured primarily as workshops, where the students read and discuss each other’s writing, creating a community of young authors. Workshops meet on a ten-week cycle, with nine two-hour-long classes followed by a celebratory reading for friends and family. To ensure our workshops are accessible to all children, families pay tuition at a self-determined rate.
Teachers are expected to help set up and break down the classroom space, to email weekly writing assignments to families and post them on the website, and to be available by email during the week for questions from students. Uptown Stories will handle enrollment, billing, space rental, and provide materials and snacks.
During the Fall, Winter, and Spring semester, workshops meet (in person or via Zoom) for two hours, once a week, for ten weeks (20 hours). For the Summer semester, workshops meet Monday-Friday for 2 weeks, at 10:00AM-12:00PM or 1:00PM-3:00PM (20 hours).
Applicants must have professional experience teaching children within the age range of 8-18, and be practicing writers or artists in their field.