What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer Bridge Academic Coach position at Young Community Developers?
Academic Coach-Summer Bridge
About Young Community Developers
Established in 1973, YCD is a nonprofit organization who serves residents of all ages living in the most historically underserved communities of San Francisco. YCD takes a holistic approach via a delivery eco-system of services designed to empower residents in achieving economic mobility, in turn building and sustaining a positive community by providing them with education opportunities, workforce development training, and social services. YCD’s philosophy is that every individual should have the right to sustainable and generational economic mobility, aiming to break the cycle of poverty. Each year YCD provides around 1,200 community members with employment and training services through their programs and partnerships. YCD is also proud to share that they have been voted by Non-Profit Times as one of the top 50 best nonprofits of its size to work for in the United States!
Project Overview
Summer Bridge is a bridge program for rising 9th-grade students to further prepare participants for the transition into high school. Summer Bridge seeks to provide underserved students with programming that aims to enrich students with skills and resources to encourage a better start to high school through a College and Career Awareness (COCA) class, along with taking an art enrichment class to give a head start for our students. We provide real-time support to students in their classes during the summer to further support their completion of activities during our programming.
POSITION SUMMARY
The role of the Academic Coach includes developing and maintaining a positive and mutually respectful relationship with students. As the main point of contact for an assigned group of students, the Academic Coach will focus on guiding each student toward achieving program success. The Academic Coach role is to support students, as well as the COCA teacher, in the classroom. This is accomplished by supporting students with their lessons as well as assisting with materials for COCA teachers’ facilitation. The Academic Coach encourages students to become more self-aware by understanding their strengths, values, interests, purpose, and passions. Additionally, Coaches focus on students developing necessary soft skills, allowing them to learn emotional intelligence and how to be responsible for their actions and decisions.
Summer Youth Academic and Employment (SYAEP) Academic Coach position is a 6-week part time (30 hours per week) non-exempt position. Estimated program dates are June 8, 2026-July 24, 2026. Academic Coaches will be assigned according to student demand, coach availability, and coordination with teachers and the YCD Site Coordinator.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide one-on-one and small group academic coaching sessions
- Support students in setting academic, personal, and career goals, and monitor progress regularly
- Build strong relationships with students, serving as a mentor, positive role model, and ally
- Assist students with study skills, time management, and organization
- Track student attendance and performance
- Collaborate with teachers to identify students who need additional support
- Expose students to college pathways and career exploration
- Organize and lead workshops, field trips, or college tours
- Assist COCA teacher with facilitation if needed
- Check in with students and provide support if needed
- Communicate with supervisor about any interventions that may need to be taken
- Work in partnership with classroom teacher to make sure supplies needed are available
- Communicate any changes from Site Coordinator to Classroom Teacher
- Encourage a positive classroom climate for students to be themselves
- All other duties as assigned
WHAT YOU WILL BRING
A successful candidate will possess:
- Minimum 1 year of college, B.A./B.S. preferred or 1 year of relevant experience.
- Ability to work with youth who perform at different levels in either a classroom or after-school program setting.
- Strong ability to demonstrate 3 teaching modalities: visual (presenting information using graphs, tables, videos, etc.), auditory (by explanation and discussion), and tactile (having the student use their hands, i.e., constructing a model or having them work out a problem or it’s concepts on the board).
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with schools and work in partnership with administrators, teachers, and community partners.
- Passion for mentoring young people, promoting youth development practices, and working towards social change.
- Excellent cross-cultural communication skills and the ability and willingness to work with economically and culturally diverse clientele from various professional and ethnic backgrounds.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication, patience, diplomacy, and high level of customer service skills.
- Ability to think critically, problem-solve and be resourceful.
- Embraces cultural differences and is willing to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Must have proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong commitment to the mission of Young Community Developers Inc./100% College Prep and to individuals from diverse populations.
- Continuous commitment to improve occupational knowledge.
- Bilingual-preferred (Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish)
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
To best mitigate the spread of disease and protect our staff, it is a condition of employment that all employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Because YCD prioritizes the health and well-being of employees, proof of vaccination will be required upon hire and be kept on file for each employee.
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
JOB TYPE: Part Time; 30/hours – Non-exempt
SUPERVISORY: No
COMPENSATION: $24.00
Young Community Developers is an “at-will” and Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applicants and employees shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender (including pregnancy and gender expression) identity, color, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary : $24