Careers Job Description
General Description
General Description: Creative Arts Team
The Creative Arts Team (CAT) is an educational outreach program at The City University of New York that uses the power of drama to inspire people to learn more. Each year, 15,000 young people, ages 3 to 21, participate in interactive workshops to examine social issues and curricular themes pertinent to our society (e.g.: literacy, conflict resolution, and health and wellness). CAT also provides professional development and life skills workshops to community members and educators.
Overview of Counselor Advocate Role within Literacy through Drama program:
The Literacy through Drama High School team is made up of 6 Actor-Teachers who work in 7 schools around New York City. Working in duos, the Actor-Teachers partner with English teachers to create drama-based curriculum that supports higher order literacy skills and explores issues of importance to the young people. These issues have included college readiness, gentrification, social protest, sexual consent, and racism. Focus is placed on social and emotional learning as well as practical problem solving. Counselor Advocates work one-on-one with particular young people to offer additional support wherever they may need it.
Responsibilities will include:
- Identifying participant issues and facilitate access to relevant supports, both inside and outside of school.
- Case-management:
- Provide a holistic assessment of the participant’s strengths and needs and development in an Individual Service Plan (ISP).
- Ensure the implementation of the ISP.
- Regularly review the ISP to assess whether goals have been met or need to be changed.
- Follow-up to insure that the participant has received requested services.
- One-on-One Meetings:
- Counselor Advocate will meet with participants once every four weeks and more frequently if needed during the period of service.
- Each meeting will be documented with written progress notes. Progress notes would present an assessment of the needs and strengths of the participant, an objective account of the interaction, and a plan for meeting the specific goals in the ISP.
- Managing School Relationships:
- The Counselor Advocate will maintain regular contact with school personnel and will work with agency-identified linkage partners and other appropriate organizations and refer participants as needed.
Job Type: Part Time, 15 hours a week
Compensation: $25/hr
Schedule: September - June 2019
3 days a week, times TBD. Must be available between the hours of 9am to 3pm in blocks of 5 hours.
Counselor Advocates will be assigned to 2-3 of the following schools:
- Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare: 999 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn
- Multicultural High School: 999 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn
- STAR Early College: 911 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn
- Astor Collegiate: 925 Astor Avenue, The Bronx
- Pelham Preparatory Academy: 925 Astor Avenue, The Bronx
- Bronx High School for the Visual Arts: 50 Antin Place, The Bronx
- International High School for Health Sciences: 48-2 91st Street, Queens
Counselor Advocates will also work in the CAT main office:
- Creative Arts Team office: 101 West 31st Street, Manhattan
*Ideal candidate will be DOE fingerprinted. However, DOE fingerprint costs to be covered by CUNY Creative Arts Team
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/American with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer
Other Duties
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Core Competencies:
- Knowledge and experience in providing nontraditional, experiential learning strategies; and experience working with youth
- Ability to communicate and work productively with staff and young people
- Ability to initiate, plan, organize prioritize, and implement multiple projects and assignments
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and two years of work experience in the required fields
- Bilingual: Spanish preferred, Arabic a plus
Submit cover letter, resume and names of three references.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
CUNY Creative Arts Team - Literacy throu
Part Time
$25.00-$25.00
Nov 04, 2018 (Or Until Filled)