Tennis Coordinator, Tenacity

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Tenacity
Position Description


Title: Tennis Coordinator
Type: Full Time
Experience Level:  2-5 years
Education: Bachelors degree

Tenacity is a rapidly growing youth development organization providing intensive athletic, academic, and life skills development programs to Boston youth.  The mission of Tenacity is to improve the scholastic, character, and physical development of multicultural, urban youth by combining tennis instruction and academic support with a focus on life skills.  This vision is realized by two distinct yet complementary core programs: the three-year After-School Excellence Program (ASEP) consisting of intensive tennis, literacy, and life-skills development tutoring for Boston middle school students, and the Summer Tennis and Reading Program consisting of free tennis instruction and reading for children ages 7-15 offered in partnership with Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF).  Three additional offerings complement these core programs: ASEP Alumni Club, Elementary School Tennis, and High School Tennis.

Job Responsibilities:
1) Work as a team with the Academic Coordinator to manage all aspects of the After-School Excellence Program (ASEP) at a particular site of approximately 35 students.  This includes:
  • Selecting/ recruiting and registering students for the program
  • Meeting with students and families at least twice a year to discuss program guidelines and commitment
  • Helping to arrange for transportation of children from school to the program site and then home
  • Assisting in the design and implementation of a program evaluation process involving students, parents, and school-day personnel
  • Ensuring that the academic and tennis activities are supporting each other, especially in the area of life skills development
2) Run the tennis sessions at a particular site.  This includes:
  • Implementing Tenacity’s tennis and fitness curriculum
    • Facilitate whole group activities
    • Coordinate and manage separate courts of students run by volunteer and part-time tennis staff
  • Managing behavior and providing one-on-one support to students experiencing behavioral, social, or academic difficulties
3) Recruit, train, schedule, and assign volunteer/ work-study/ part-time staff with support from the Program Director

4) Work throughout the summer as a Summer Site Director, developing curriculum, or on other projects

5) Assist with developing and implementing strategic growth objectives, such as:
  • adding new teams of students and staff within existing schools
  • adding new schools
6) As a staff team member of a dynamic, growing organization, work on a variety of projects (fundraising, administrative, program support, etc. etc…) as requested by the Program Director and President

Key Relationships:
* Work in close partnership with Academic Coordinator
* Supervise part-time staff
* Along with other Tenacity staff, liaison to schools, including teachers and others
* Coordinator of up to several dozen volunteers
* In partnership with other Tenacity staff members, liaison to parents and students
* Report to School Year Program Director

Requirements: The ideal candidate will be/have:
* Trustworthy, high energy, high integrity, flexible, organized
* Willingness and availability to work in an intense non-profit environment and put in long hours as the work demands 
* Masters in Education or related field preferred
* 2 to 5 years of tennis teaching and/or program management experience, preferably in a middle school or a start-up, fast-growth organization serving urban, multi-cultural constituents
* Counseling experience and/or course work a plus
* Able to work with others in a collaborative team environment
* A passion for children, this program, and the Boston community
* Proficiency in verbal and written communication, Microsoft Word, Excel
* Certification by USPTA and/or USPTR or significant tennis teaching experience preferred
* Ability to communicate in Spanish, Cape Verdean or Chinese a plus


To Apply
Please send cover letter and resume to Anne Greenbaum, School Year Program Director, at ASEPjobs@tenacity.org or 367 Western Ave., Brighton, MA 02135.  In the subject line, please mention job code #10.


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Compensation
Deadline
September 1, 2008