New Gen Summer Program Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Overview
New Gen is dedicated to empowering secondary-age youth by providing supportive, skill-building opportunities that prepare them for post-secondary educational opportunities, employment, and independence. The mission of the program is to help young people gain the tools, social networks, and competencies they need to thrive.

Through weekly curriculum sessions, hands-on experiences, guest speaker series, and community-based opportunities, participants will strengthen their literacy, numeracy, social-emotional, entrepreneurial, and life skills while also gaining exposure to employment and higher education pathways.

The Program Assistant supports the New Gen Coordinator, and two classroom teachers in supervising the daily programming plans and group activities as coordinated. The person in the role must embody Peter Paul’s values and share a passion for the mission by overseeing a high quality, safe experience for all students. All Peter Paul employees are expected to maintain high expectations for self, colleagues, students and families and must maintain a professional, ethical and responsible attitude to form a positive, supportive team atmosphere.

Primary Responsibilities

• Help supervise students throughout the daily arrival, departure, and dismissal routines as part of the New Gen summer program
• Promote workforce and independent living skills development in teens through enforcing skills learned via program provider instruction
• Assist in the implementation of New Gen’s succession planning programming via enforcement of student/classroom/parent expectations
• Commitment to total classroom engagement via the daily arrival, departure, and dismissal routines as part of the New Gen summer program
• Participate in staff meetings and professional development as scheduled
• Supervise students during scheduled external programming, sustaining site-sound-and supervision
• Perform additional duties as assigned
• Required use of clock-in/out system as well as other internal platforms that help to support daily functions of the New Gen program.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent; or currently enrolled in college courses
• Experience working with school age students
• Strong classroom management and organization skills
• Excellent oral, verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of and familiarity working in an urban setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education (preferred)
• Experience working in the Virginia Standards of Learning
• Subject matter expertise in science, technology, engineering, art or math

Position Schedule
This is a part-time, hourly position that is expected to work starting June 15, 2026 through August 7, 2026. The Summer program hours of operation are between 8am-4pm Monday-Friday.