After-School Program Director

Posted by on September 5, 2003

Program Director Position?Christ Church/St. John?s After School Program

Program Description
Christ Church is entering its fourth year of offering a successful after school mentoring program for 2nd and 3rd grade children of low-income families from Abigail Vare Elementary School. The program offers a safe, positive, and structured setting in which students on the cusp of failing in their classes come seeking extra help with reading and math skills, a hot meal, and fun activities such as group art projects that build healthy peer and mentor relationships. The program meets four days a week (Monday-Thursday), from 3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m., thirty weeks a year (October-May) at St. John?s Episcopal Church at 3rd and Reed Streets. The program runs out of the Christian conviction to reach out to those in need, but is not a religious program that seeks to proselytize. The program seeks a Program Director.

Program Director
Responsibilities include:

* Staff/Mentor orientation
* Weekly supervision of on-site director and assistant on-site director
* Coordinating regular communication with school administrators, teachers, and parents
* Coordinating attendance, food, supplies, publicity, extra-academic activities, and trips
* Participation in monthly After School Program oversight committee
* Coordinating grant proposals
* Active envisioning of program future

Qualities sought:

? Genuine interest in children and youth
? Good organizational skills
? Experience or degree in education and/or social work

Hours and Salary:

? 15-20 hours a week
? Begins at $15/hour

Contact: The Rev. Walter Smedley
Christ Church in Philadelphia
20 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 922-1695, ext. 23
e-mail address: wsmedley@christchurchphila.org