Position Available: Designery Program Instructor
Position: Designery Program Instructor
(Part Time One Year Contract)
Reports to: Designery Program Manager
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE:
We believe that young people, when empowered with the skills and education necessary to improve their quality of life, will realize that they can play a leadership role in strengthening their communities.
Our Organization:
Our Mission is to empower and assist underserved young people from the Boston area with the essential social, vocational, academic, and life skills necessary to navigate a positive pathway to self-sufficiency and neighborhood responsibility. While YBB promotes the core values of youth development and community service, it stands out as an innovative non-profit offering a hands-on approach to building trades training. Our programs provide vocational education, counseling, and other life skills training that readily strengthen and prepare students for the workforce upon graduation. We focus on the assets of each individual to enable young people to navigate a pathway to a meaningful livelihood. We connect young people to their peers, family, and community in a positive and supportive way. Our programs include:
Building Trades Exploration: This 6-9 month academic and building trades program is for young people aged 17-24 who do not have a high school diploma. Participants gain exposure to construction and landscaping safety, tools, materials, techniques, and methods while taking HiSet prep classes for their high school equivalency test.
Pre-Apprentice: This 15-week program is for young people aged 18-25 who already have their high school diploma or equivalent and are interested in starting a career in the building trades. Students gain field experience on real construction sites to ensure that they are ready for employment in the field upon graduation.
Facilities Maintenance: YBB has developed an 18-month Facilities Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship program that consists of classroom instruction, and on the job training. The apprenticeship provides participants with a clear ladder of upward mobility in the field of facilities maintenance, while developing a well-trained, steady workforce for our employer partners.
The Designery: These 7 to 10-week sessions are geared toward high school students who want an enriching after-school experience. Students are paid a bi-weekly stipend while they hone fundamental graphic, modeling, and design-thinking skills through real design projects for non-profit clients around the city.
Program Details:
The Designery is YouthBuild Boston's hands-on design education program for high school students where teen participants develop design and problem-solving skills through a team-based projects. They explore architecture and design, project and construction management principles, and new career opportunities. For Summer 2021, we will conduct this program in a hybrid model with some online and in-person engagements. Beginning Fall 2021, as cleared by BPS and local/regional government, we will resume in-person programming.
We are looking for a passionate design educator, who can work collaboratively and independently, to implement the program in its various manifestations seamlessly across multiple platforms. You will be teamed with other program instructors and the program manager to guide you in the implementation of this design education course/program. The design skills delivery method is a hybrid of conceptual projects and feasible real-life project delivery. Designery programs include:
Designery program for Boston teens ages 14-18 in a summer program.
Designery program for Boston teens ages 14-18 after-school during the school year.
Other in-school Designery program during school hours as needed/directed.
Job Duties:
Advance the mission of YouthBuild Boston’s Designery through service to the community and provide career exploration opportunities in architecture and design to high school teens, ages 14-18.
Teach high school students basic design skills and principles. Guiding them through all phases of a design project, conceptual, design development, and if applicable, construction.
Leading by example, empower your high school students to engage in the lessons, exercises, and design tasks in a positive and productive manner.
Execute and contribute to the improvement and evolution of the program curriculum.
Perform administrative duties as required.
Support and collaborate with the Designery Program Manager in the care and implementation of the Designery program, engage in grant writing proposals as needed, and perform various other tasks for the benefit of the program.
Qualifications:
Candidate Profile: A designer or college level design student, with passion for design education for high school teens.
Core Skills: Knowledge of basic carpentry/material assembly, comfortable using power tools, familiarity with the design process. Experience with youth engagement highly desirable. Strong verbal and graphic communication. Outspoken, takes initiative, and able to work independently and collaboratively.
Technical Skills: Sketching, Drawing, Drafting, Modeling, Sketchup, AutoCAD, Revit. Familiarity with Adobe CS and AutoDesk products preferred.
Wage: $16.50 / hr, 28 hrs / week
Length of Assignment: 1 year
To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to Mike Chavez via email at mchavez@ybboston.org. No phone calls please.