Summer Youth Program Assistant, York Road Initiative

Loyola University, United States

Updated: about 1 year ago
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Posting Details
Posting Details


Position Title Summer Youth Program Assistant, York Road Initiative
Job Category Temp
Office/Department Center for Community, Service, and Justice
Work Environment Onsite
Location Evergreen Main Campus
Staff Job Type Full-time
If Temporary or Visiting, Estimated End Date: 08/18/2023
Position Summary and Duties
The Summer Program Assistant is a temporary, 10 week full-time role that will serve as the Loyola University Maryland’s York Road Initiative’s primary point of contact for its partnership with the Baltimore Office for the Promotion of the Arts’ Art at Work Program. They will also support professional development activities for all Youthworks summer jobs program students, including arranging financial literacy, career development, and other life skills workshops. They will also support the YRI Associate Director in administering the York Road Summer Youth Neighborhood Fund Program.
1. Logistics Support for BOPA Art at Work Program
The Program Assistant will serve as YRI’s primary point of contact to staff of the Baltimore Office for the Promotion of Arts. Support needs will include providing youth transportation, meals support, technology support, and time entry collection and submission. The Program Assistant will be on-site with the program at times during the YouthWorks program hours (25 hours a week between July 10-August 11) plus office-based hours. the Program Assistant will spend the month of June onboarding with YRI and preparing for the summer (including attending the Art at Work Parent Engagement meeting).
2.Coordination of Summer Youth Professional Development Workshops
The Program Assistant will be the point of contact for Loyola University of Maryland faculty and staff delivering professional development workshops to all YRI YouthWorks students (Art at Work and the Govans Farmer’s Market) throughout the YouthWorks program period Topics include, but are not limited to: financial literacy, career and life skills). They may also deliver workshops as needed.
3.Administrative Support for Opportunity Youth Neighborhood Fund Grantees
Support YRI’s Associate Director in working with youth-focused neighborhood small grant program awardees. Support work could include: conducting site visits, arranging an end of summer grantee meeting, and creating program evaluation materials.
4.Summer Youth Program Activity Dissemination and Reporting
Participate in the creation of external project communication materials for YRI summer youth initiatives that can be used by YRI team members, such as presentations for funders, boards, and conferences. May assist CCSJ/YRI Leadership Team with drafting small sections for federal grant reporting.
Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role. Must complete an employer-administered CIJS background check and take Loyola University Maryland’s child safety training.
Required Qualifications
Minimum high school diploma or equivalency.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with community-based programs and/or youth programs preferred. Resourceful, creative thinker, with confidence to achieve impactful results. Proficient with Microsoft Office and databases. Ability to work with diverse populations, with strong sensitivity to racial, cultural and economic diversity. Ability to communicate with clarity, tact and diplomacy with a variety of people, and when dealing with the public, in a balanced way. Ability to support the mission and values of a Catholic Jesuit education, as well as University goals for institutional diversity. Valid driver’s license preferred.
Job Posting Date 03/20/2023
Priority Application Deadline Date
Job Close Date
Anticipated Start Date 06/12/2023
University Description
Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.
Diversity Statement
Loyola University Maryland strongly values the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace. In accord with its Ignatian values, the University is committed to creating and promoting a community that recognizes the inherent value and dignity of each person. Loyola University Maryland does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected classification. The University recruits, hires, and promotes in accord with this policy and its Core Values.
Special Instructions to Applicants
Successful candidates for any staff, faculty, or administrative position at Loyola University Maryland will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
Quicklink for Posting https://careers.loyola.edu/postings/6665

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