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Youth Development Program Coordinator

Employer
Mystic Seaport
Location
Mystic, Connecticut
Closing date
Sep 17, 2021

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Focus Areas
Arts / Culture / Humanities, Education, Youth Development
Job Function
Education / Teaching, Program / Project Management
Position Type
Full Time
Degree Level
Bachelors
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Job Details

Mystic Seaport Museum is seeking a full-time, year-round dynamic Youth Development Program Coordinator to help develop, launch and manage programming for the new Center for Experiential Education at Mystic Seaport Museum.  The mission of the Center for Experiential Education is to engage under-resourced youth in experiential maritime education anchored in positive youth development to help them enhance their social, emotional, and leadership skills.  The Youth Development Program Coordinator will help recruit youth participants, implement staff and participant training on leadership and positive youth development, and create and help deliver engaging programming.  Successful candidates are energetic role models who enjoy working with youth and having fun while at work.  Programming with the Center for Experiential Education will include Positive Youth Development programming, marine science, boating, and sailing; astronomy and navigation with the Museum’s Planetarium, boat building and a Counselor-in-Training program at the Museum’s Sailing Center.

 

Essential Job Functions

Youth Development

  • Provide opportunities for youth leadership, voice, and empowerment
  • Create and maintain a safe space for youth and implement strategies for social emotional wellbeing
  • Design and facilitate highly engaging, rigorous learning experiences with resources and scaffolds that allow students to lead their own learning.
  • Continually seek additional knowledge and new approaches in Positive Youth Development.

Participant Recruitment and Community Engagement

  • Work with partner schools and community organizations to recruit youth to participate in the Center for Experiential Education programming.
  • Engage in community outreach to build and maintain relationships with a diverse array of organizations and individuals to further goals of the Center for Experiential Education.

Program Management and Operations

  • Research, develop, plan, and implement age-appropriate outcome based programs for children and youth based on a Positive Youth Development framework.
  • Provide mentorship and support to assist participants in addressing presenting issues and motivate youth in their decision making process.
  • Participate in planning, implementation and staffing for all youth programming, including weekend and weekday evening events
  • Facilitate staff trainings and monthly meetings around effective positive youth development practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in education, human/social services, youth development, or other relevant field
  • Experience in youth development/youth services with proven ability to engage and motivate youth of varied backgrounds
  • Knowledge of positive youth development and the ability to work with the most vulnerable populations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong ability to motivate youth and manage behavior problems in a positive manner
  • Ability to relate to youth while also maintaining professional distance
  • Strong leadership and mentor skills
  • A self-starter with strong organizational and time management skills
  • Grounded and flexible

Applications are due October 1, 2021.

Company

Mystic Seaport is the nation’s leading maritime museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.

The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT and include a recreated 19th century coastal village, a working shipyard, exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest commercial ship still in existence.

With a full-time staff of 150 that swells to 350 during the summer season, the Museum hosts 250,000 visitors annually. Mystic Seaport employs a diverse staff of scholars, librarians, historic interpreters, educators, scientists, musicians, and skilled artisans.

A stroll through the historic village transports visitors back to the mid-1800s where they can experience firsthand from staff historians, storytellers, musicians, and craftspeople just what life was like to earn one's living from the sea. In the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard, they can watch shipwrights keeping the skills and techniques of traditional shipbuilding alive as they restore and maintain the Museum’s watercraft collection.

The Museum’s 41,000 sq. ft. Collections Research Center (CRC) offers access to more than 2 million artifacts and is also home to the G.W. Blunt White Library, a 75,000-volume research library where scholars from around the world come to study America’s maritime history.

For more than 80 years, visitors, students, and scholars have turned to Mystic Seaport to preserve and interpret America’s maritime experience. The Museum’s commitment to that mission is as strong as ever.

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Telephone
8605725346
Location
75 Greenmanville Ave
 Mystic
CT
06355
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