After-School Program Volunteers

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Volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster can be a very rewarding experience. With your help, we can strengthen our existing programs, and extend our services to more young people. Program Assistants will offer programmatic support to staff and Club members within our wide variety of after-school programs and activities. We seek enthusiastic volunteer assistants to support Staff Instructors with programming and activities in the following program areas: Homework tutoring, Science, Art, Sports, Dance and Computer Science.

We are looking for dedicated volunteers who can commit to participate one hour per week or more during the Fall or Spring semester. Our Club hours of operation are 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

General Responsibilities:

• General supervision of youth ages 8 - 12
• Assist staff with implementation of program activities
• Assist staff with program preparation and clean up
  • Assist staff with member dismissal
  • Assist with member transitions through building
  • Administrative support
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Qualifications:

• Experience or interest in working with youth and diverse populations
• Ability to multi-task with the capability to learn quickly and integrate efficiently
• Ability to interact with, motivate and engage young people
• Ability to work well as part of a team
• Flexibility and willingness to learn

Our emphasis is on providing wholesome activities supervised by adults of high moral character. Because the risk, no matter how remote, of exploitation or abuse of our members is unacceptable, we are required to secure your consent for background check, and to examine all references. Applicants must also complete the Criminal Records Check (CORI), SORI Check and national background check.