DFSS Youth Safe Spaces Coordinator

Summary of Position: The Program Coordinator should be a positive, enthusiastic, civic minded individual with connections to both their community and the world outside their community. The Program Coordinator will ensure learning objectives are met for the overall program while also providing individual and group support, and instruction and coaching to youth participants in a culturally competent environment. The Program Coordinator will also oversee all aspects of the Kickback event series, including managing youth roles, on-site coordination, working with vendors, data collection, and outreach. Duties also include administrative functions such as entering data into Cityspan and ensuring the completion of Department of Family & Support Services (DFSS) and My Chi. My Future (MCMF) sessions and the post program survey by all your youth. 

This is a part time seasonal role that will work 25 hours a week until December 19, 2025. 

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Oversee Youth Employees

• Facilitate, direct, and supervise all programmatic activities with youth employees, including youth onboarding:
  • Build strong, positive relationships with youth participants and facilitate team building between participants
  • As needed, engage youth in wrap around services within their agency and work with external partners to provide additional support services to youth who are identified as at-risk
  • Develop and implement creative strategies to retain youth participants throughout the program
  • Assist with data collection and entry into DFSS-designated platforms o Manage student work hours and student timesheets; work with the delegate to ensure that youth employees are paid in a timely manner
  • Implement performance measurement tools with youth participants and ensure completion

• Working with the agency, oversee production of all Kickback events for the year
• Working with the agency and youth, ensure event outreach throughout community including distributing flyers, social media posts, etc.
  • Work with vendors and performers including deliveries and set-up, payment, and scheduling
  • Gather data around event participation, and photo and video documentation  o Act as day-of contact during Kickbacks
  • Ensure youth are supported in completing the required Kickback-related tasks: 
    • Plan for food, activities, and entertainment at Kickbacks
    • Set up and attend Kickback events 
    • Outreach to local organizations, including distributing flyers and canvassing to promote Kickbacks 
    • Posting on social media about Kickbacks
    • Flyer design and other promotional activities 
    • Documenting events (e.g., photos, videos)
    • Support data collection 
• Receive and respond to calls and questions from DFSS and youth
• Attend mandatory trainings and meetings per request of DFSS

• Create a MCMF account for the agency to post opportunities on the website and app. Resources and guides can be found at partners.mychimyfuture.org.   
• Post all youth-related opportunities (events, jobs, programs, resources) for youth ages 0-24 offered by their agency to the MCMF platform on the first day of each month.
• Inform all their youth participants ages 13 and older who have smartphones (Android and iPhone) about the MCMF app and encourage them to download the app to get access to opportunities throughout the year.
• Lead a warm-handoff exercise with youth participants to help them find their next. opportunity through the MCMF app two weeks before a scheduled program concludes.
• Participate in citywide and local MCMF convenings and networks. Information on these meetings will be posted in MCMF’s weekly newsletters. Delegates can sign up for this newsletter at partners.mychimyfuture.org.

Compensation:  $20 / hour

About Us: After School Matters is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that annually offers after-school and summer programs to nearly 19,000 Chicago high school teens to explore and develop their talents while gaining critical skills that will set them up for success in college and beyond.

Thirty-five years later, now known as After School Matters, our program has engaged more than 450,000 Chicago teens and is the nation’s largest and most successful provider of after-school and summer programs for high school teens. No other organization offers programs to high school students at the scale and quality that we do.

We offer paid apprenticeships led by professionals in the fields of arts, communications and leadership, sports, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Our nationally respected youth development model has been replicated in cities across the country and earned us the City Livability Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Programs take place at community locations throughout the city, including three ASM buildings: downtown at Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, the Michael and Karyn Lutz Center in Belmont Cragin, and the Pullman community at Gately Park. Currently, After School Matters' annual operating budget is approximately $35M and employs approximately 500 staff across the organization. For more information, visit www.afterschoolmatters.org.

EEO:  After School Matters is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, military discharge status, age, marital status, parental status, or source of income. 

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