ELO: Summer Director of Program Enrichment

Position Summary

The Director of Program Enrichment plays a vital role in collaboratively planning and executing the EFC and GalileoX enrichment partnership alongside the Director of Expanded Learning. This position focuses on ensuring a high-quality, engaging, and joyful enrichment experience for both staff and campers. The Director of Program Enrichment directly coaches facilitators on the delivery of the GalileoX curriculum, observing instruction and providing ongoing feedback to ensure consistent and faithful implementation across all sessions. The ideal candidate is passionate about STEM-based, hands-on learning and committed to creating an inclusive enrichment environment where every camper and staff member feels welcomed and valued.

Responsibilities

• Vision and Program Development: Work closely with the Director of Expanded Learning to develop and refine the summer enrichment vision. Contribute creative ideas and strategies to enhance STEM-based, community-building activities during the summer program.
• Curriculum Implementation Support: Oversee the delivery of GalileoX STEM-based lessons and activities, ensuring facilitators implement the Camp Galileo curriculum framework with fidelity and consistency across all sessions.
• Facilitator Coaching: Provide real-time coaching and constructive feedback to facilitators during and after lessons, supporting their growth in instructional technique, classroom management, and camper engagement.
• Observation and Feedback Cycles: Conduct regular observations of facilitators delivering curriculum, documenting strengths and areas for growth and holding follow-up coaching conversations to drive continuous improvement.
• Inclusive Facilitation Practices: Model and coach facilitators on strategies that create welcoming, inclusive environments where all campers feel valued, with attention to diverse learning styles and backgrounds.
• Curriculum Fidelity Monitoring: Track and assess how consistently facilitators are implementing the GalileoX curriculum, identifying gaps and providing targeted support to address them.
• Collaborative Teaming: Partner with fellow coaches and the Director of Expanded Learning to align on coaching priorities, share observations, and ensure a unified approach to curriculum delivery site-wide.
• Facilitator Development: Lead or support professional development sessions and team huddles focused on strengthening facilitation skills, DEI practices, and curriculum knowledge.
• Camper Experience Oversight: Monitor camper engagement and participation across sessions, using observations to inform coaching priorities and ensure a high-quality experience for all campers.
• Conflict and Challenge Support: Guide facilitators in addressing camper behavioral challenges and interpersonal conflicts, modeling positive guidance techniques and providing in-the-moment coaching as needed.
• Program Feedback and Reporting: Collect and synthesize facilitator and camper feedback, maintain observation records, and report regularly to the Director of Expanded Learning on curriculum implementation progress and areas for improvement.
• Logistics and Preparation: Support facilitators in preparing materials, supplies, and activity spaces to ensure each session is set up for successful curriculum delivery.
• Other tasks as assigned or necessary for program success.

EFC Core Values

• Connected- We continually work to build trusting relationships among students, families, staff, and the Oakland community at large. We are an all-hands-on-deck network driven by empathy. We value our collective identity and the individual identities of our community members and scholars such that we have a sense of collective ownership and responsibility for each other and for our scholars.
• Inclusive- We proactively disrupt predictable patterns of opportunity, power, privilege, and performance. We create an inclusive environment where multiple perspectives are not only valued but sought, where people from all backgrounds feel seen and heard and can thrive, and where we all feel a deep sense of accountability to our mission.
• Interdependent- Our success at every level is dependent on our individual and collective sustainability. To that end, we are transparent, creative, and collaborative problem-solvers who seek to build trusting relationships. We are curious and are open to new ideas while also putting systems in place to ensure continuity so that our employees can stay, grow, thrive, and help make good on our promise to our students and families.
• Learners- We support each other to develop and grow so that we can leverage our collective power, intelligence, and passion on behalf of our students. We lean on home-grown leaders who are rooted in our community. Individuals feel known and are provided opportunities to maximize their potential in alignment with their passions and goals.

Title IX Notice of Nondiscrimination

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