AfterCare Facilitator

The Dandelion Project is looking for creative, energetic people, who love facilitating with kids, and who are passionate about building a fun, self-directed aftercare environment with school-aged children (ages 5-12) from elementary schools in South Philly.

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Applicants should be excited about actively creating a non-traditional kind of learning space that centers self-directed practices embedded within a supportive and nourishing community. Our program is growing a lot this year, and Aftercare Facilitator applicants should be committed to collaboratively working through the challenges and responsive shifts that come with walking the path while we are creating it. This work is messy and beautiful! Our new Aftercare facilitator will collaborate closely with the Director of the program (as well as other part time aftercare staff) to design, plan, and implement activities, plan our snack menu, coordinate and carry out pick ups at the various schools we offer programming to, and support communication with families. 

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Committed to fostering a racially equitable and inclusive unschool community, we encourage Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color to apply.

 

Working with us will fill you up if:

 

• You are a passionate, curious, and joyful person with a variety of interests and abilities that you would enjoy sharing with young people. ​

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• You enjoy working in an energetic space with young people who show up their fullest, most authentic selves. 

 

• You have experience cultivating authentic, respectful, and partnership-based relationships with people of all ages.

 

• You are ready to dive in to help create, reinforce, and grow with an intentional community around transformation, liberation, racial equity and inclusion, and environmental stewardship.

 

• You are actively UNlearning (deschooling) what most of us are taught about how and where learning happens, what learning is valuable, how learning is evaluated, and how to support young people in group settings. You are eager to partner with others in rejecting narrow, authoritarian views of how adults facilitate learning and partner with kids. 

 

• You are invested in and experienced with collaboration, believe you have much to share and learn from other facilitators, and are willing to sacrifice personal power and control to include more perspectives. You see sharing and receiving feedback from other facilitators as an opportunity for personal growth.

 

We are looking for people with experience in:

 

• Working with youths in schools or alternative settings (summer camps, aftercare programs, etc.)

• Designing exciting and engaging activities with and for kids

• Moving through conflict with an eye on Transformative Justice

 

Hours and Compensation:

This Dandelion Aftercare facilitator role begins in the Fall 2024 and runs Monday-Friday from 2-6:30pm. NOTE: Dandelion Aftercare offers early pick ups when the district has early dismissals, and the Aftercare Facilitator will arrive early those day to help accommodate the pick ups and program. Early pick up days will be communicated in advance for scheduling purposes.​

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We value the people who are joining us and aim to pay all employees a salary that reflects that. As a nonprofit still in start up phase, we can commit to paying $22/hour. Compensation will be reviewed regularly and will grow alongside our organization. As we continue growing our programming, passionate and committed employees have the opportunity to shape the programming offered and the number of hours they work each week.

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Hiring Process:

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1. Prior to applying, please read our Who We Are, Core Values, and the Wild Seeds Overview to check out our vibe and vision

2. Complete the application

3. Along with a copy of your resume, please email us (wild@thedandelionproject.us) a description of a sample offering you might facilitate for young people in our community. This could be as simple as a paragraph and will help us get an idea of your facilitation style and interests. 

4. We encourage you to read through the Agile Learning Centers website and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education to gain more insights into the kind of facilitation we are seeking

5. Wait for a response from our facilitator team about next steps. We plan to begin our hiring process in June 2024 and positions will start in August 2024.