Full Time: 100% FTE, 40 hours per week
Compensation Range: $20.19 - $22.21 per hour, non-exempt
Benefits: Medical, vision, dental and life insurance, vacation and sick time off, paid federal holidays, and retirement plan
Organization Size: 50 employees
Reports to: Manager, Digital Arts Technology Program
Location(s): Monterey/Bay Area Region
JOB OVERVIEW:
Digital NEST is a workforce development center that has welcomed hundreds of youth from working-class, farmworker communities to develop the technical and professional skills they need to achieve their dreams. It is an exciting time for the NEST as we are on the precipice of expanding to a total of five communities across Northern California by the end of 2026. Digital NEST has centers in the heart of Watsonville, Salinas, and Gilroy. The first Digital NEST in the Central Valley is expected to launch in Stockton in 2023, with plans to scale across the Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley also underway.
This position is responsible for teaching, facilitating, and ensuring the learning and career preparation of youth program participants (members) seeking careers in Digital Arts Technology.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Implementation of the Digital Arts Technology Program (65%)
- Implement curriculum and serve as the instructor and facilitator of coordinated volunteer work experience groups for youth program participants (members) to foster professional development and job readiness of youth (Content Creators).
- Implement project management training to support youth in developing, planning, and producing member-coordinated events.
- Effectively incorporate and embed soft skills and leadership curriculum into all lessons and activities and teach soft skill development to members and job trainees.
- Coach members on career development; refer members to outside career training and paid job opportunities and support youth in applying to, interviewing for, and being successful in, such opportunities.
- Under the direction of the Program Manager and using their program designs and curriculum, develop training outlines and adapt curriculum for teaching assigned subjects.
- Teach educational programs to train members in soft skills, job readiness, leadership, project management graphic design, and videography.
- Assess the training outcomes of trainees, document, report progress in writing, and update data collection systems.
Youth Outreach and Engagement for the Digital Arts & Technology Program (30%)
- Identify prospective participants and cultivate member engagement in the Digital Arts Technology Program; maintain a student information system to track member participation and engagement and produce reports as needed.
- Encourage members to participate in NEST programs and a career development pathway.
- Monitor NEST youth participants’ status, well-being and share observations across the program staff.
- Work collaboratively with other team members to coordinate and assist with recruitment of Digital Arts Technology Program trainees.
- Regularly brief the Member Specialist and other colleagues on opportunities for youth employment program placements in the pathway to support the work of partnering with various youth employment programs.
Other (5%)
- Provide general support to fundraising efforts expected of all staff: showcase members and member work, speak articulately about programming and be a model representative and evangelist for Digital NEST in the community.
- Performs other duties and tasks assigned by the supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- At least 3 years of full-time, formal experience or industry recognized credentials in a related field.
- At least 1 year of full-time experience teaching youth using culturally responsive experiential learning pedagogies and instructional methods.
- Accountable for performance outcomes/KPI attainment at the project level (each course, each series, each season, a cadre, a cohort, each partnership, etc.)
- Works with immediate supervisor to develop plans to accomplish the goals of the organization
- Supports and coordinates team members’ input and ideas.
- Regularly communicates with team and manager to ensure flow of ideas and progress towards goals.
- Works with peers to ensure that team projects are working toward the same goal
- Carries out the full scope of fixed set of work skills, and may also work across departments to achieve a goal.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bilingual/Biliterate English and Spanish.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Passion for the mission of Digital NEST and belief in upholding organization’s core value.
- Understanding of and sensitivity to issues of culture/ethnicity/race, gender, sexual identity, class/SES and immigration status.
- Ability to be an ally to people of color, women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning and intersex individuals and their allies (LGBTQIA).
- Must have a valid CA driver's license, pass a background check, and be able to travel and work evenings or weekends occasionally, or as needed.
- Maintain dexterity and coordination, sufficient to perform essential functions.
- Ability to perform administrative and computer-based tasks for up to 4.5 hours at a time.
- Ability to be mobile (including, but not limited to walking, bending, squatting, crouching, twisting, kneeling, reaching, etc.)
- Ability to lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 35 pounds as needed.
Digital NEST, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Digital NEST is committed to an inclusive experience for all applicants and will endeavor to make reasonable accommodations in the interview process, to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
Please refer to our career page for more information on how to apply for reasonable accommodations.