Job Summary
Full-Time Paid Fellowship in year of service,working with a multi-faceted social service agency serving and responding to the wide-ranging needs of homeless and low-income individuals seeking opportunities to improve their situation.
This position is offered in partnership with Jubilee Year LA (JYLA) - a 2017 Service Year Alliance Program Impact Award recipient. Each fall, Jubilee Year gathers a diverse corps of young adults from across the United States to commit a single year to living in community and working for change in some of Los Angeles County's most innovative and effective social service agencies. During this year of service, the corps is tasked with living simply and building community, while growing personally and professionally.
Having served Los Angeles for 25 years, JYLA is one of the longest continuously running year of service programs of its kind in the nation. This is a unique, challenging, and life-changing opportunity to spend a year serving in Los Angeles, a wonderful city that, alongside its beaches and beauty, is an area of great inequality, concentrated poverty, and real need. To learn more visit www.jubileeyearla.org
Responsibilities and Duties
Job Responsibilities include:
- Assisting lead teacher in operating fine-arts based preschool classroom
- Preparing and reviewing daily evaluations
- Tutoring and small group instruction
- Behavior management
- Overseeing upkeep of an on-site community garden
- Managing preschool engagement and education in the community garden
- Developing partnerships with local urban farming groups
- Engaging the community in the life, maintenance, and expansion of the community garden.
- Community Need Addressed
- Serving and responding to the wide-ranging needs of preschool age children in the community.
- Addressing access to affordable early education.
- Addressing lack of access to green space & fresh, affordable, nutritious produce in the community
Position Outcomes
- Strengthen organizations’ ability to support vulnerable populations
- Strengthen corps members' understanding of vulnerable populations especially preschool age children.
- Develop corps members' leadership qualities and preparedness through learning and experience in serving and working with vulnerable population.
- Exposing and providing interaction opportunity with diverse communities and new ideas to expand corps members understanding of need and access.
Qualifications and SkillsQualified Candidates:
- Are 21-29 years old
- Are passionate about social justice, serving communities of need, and sharing new experiences where they will grow and be challenged in a supportive environment that encourages critical thinking and compassionate action.
- Benefits
Health coverage, Housing, Living allowance, Stipend, Student loan forbearance, Training
JYLA provides corps members with free housing and utilities, food stipend, Annual Metro Pass (Public Transit), mentorship, quarterly retreats, professional development, and extensive access to and interaction with our social and professional network built up over the course of over 25 years serving in Los Angeles.
Skills you can gain
- Community-building
- public speaking
- time management
- money management
- appropriate professional behavior
- self-care
- independent living
- public transit use
- city living
- diversity appreciation
- personal reflection
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $800.00 per month
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Work Location: In person