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Job Description – Temporary Playroom Coordinator
Location: Roca Springfield - Young Mother’s Program
FLSA Classification: Full -Time, Non-Exempt, Temporary through May 30, 2024
About Roca
Roca is a fast-paced, data-driven, and relentless organization that serves over 1,300 high-risk young people every year. Through a unique intervention model, Roca proves that young people who are often feared, forgotten, and left out can in fact build safe, stable, and hopeful lives. At Roca, we believe that every young person matters and that with enough time and the right opportunities, change is possible. Roca’s strong outcomes and thousands of graduates are the proof that less jail is more future and that progress happens with work. Established in Chelsea, MA in 1988, Roca now has additional sites in Boston, Springfield, Lynn, and Holyoke, MA, in Baltimore, MD, and in Hartford, CT.
Position Overview
This position reports to the Roca Springfield Young Mothers Program Manager to engage and provide supervision to children in the playroom, oversee playroom maintenance, and plan developmentally appropriate activities for children. This position will also support parent-child engagement activities and assist with developmental screening of children ages 0-5.
General Responsibilities
Specific Responsibilities
Qualifications
The very nature of Roca’s work requires an individual of great commitment and energy to the mission. Roca seeks a highly driven individual who is in alignment with the culture and values of Roca. In addition, the ideal candidate for this position will be a trustworthy decision-maker. He/she will have a sense of humor, feel passionate and committed to direct work with high-risk young mothers and their children, and demonstrate interest in coaching and supporting coworkers.
Roca expects candidates to have the following skills:
Requirements for the position:
Physical Demands:
The physical demands that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to push, pull, stock, and must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Work can be repetitive in nature. Specific vision abilities required by this job include depth perception, peripheral vision, the ability to distinguish basic colors and the ability to adjust vision to bring objects into focus.
It may be necessary to wear some protective clothing and/or equipment such as rain and snow gear, boots, goggles, hard hat, full face shield, respirator, ear plugs/muffs and gloves. Work requires physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking over rough, uneven surfaces, and recurring bending, climbing, crawling, crouching, stooping, and reaching, and occasional lifting or moderately heavy items. Work requires average physical agility and dexterity.
Work Environment:
The work environment an employee is exposed to while performing the essential functions of this job.
The position can work in outdoor and indoor environments. The noise level is typically moderate. The incumbent is frequently exposed to all outdoor weather conditions.
Temporary
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
$59k-83k (estimate)
01/11/2024
05/07/2024
rocainc.org
SPRINGFIELD, MA
50 - 100
1988
Private
MOLLY BALDWIN
$10M - $50M
Civic & Environmental Advocacy