<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font size="5" color="#020202" style="font: 18.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Hiring: Youth Development Coordinator</font></b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Mission & History:</font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Lasting peace and social justice require equitable and sustainable use of resources. Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) provides community-based education and assists development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption and inequality that breed war and environmental destruction. Our organization is part of a worldwide movement for peace and responsible stewardship of the earth.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">BNB began in 1984 as an environmentally conscious campaign in support of social change in favor of the poor in Nicaragua. In 1990, BNB began to pursue its mission in Boston’s most impoverished neighborhoods. Today, we operate a thriving Bicycle Recycling and Youth Training Center where we offer six unique, high-quality programs that empower and organize youth and their families to work towards long-term change. Our programs create real community, with long-term, positive relationships built across lines of age, race, and class.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Position:</font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) seeks to hire a Youth Development Coordinator to oversee our youth programs. This is a full-time, salaried position with benefits. Salary range is $30,000 – 32,000. The Youth Development Coordinator reports to the Executive Director.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font size="4" color="#020202" style="font: 14.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Responsibilities:</font></b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Administration and Supervision (35%)</font></b></font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Practice peer supervision with Youth Programs Coordinator.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Supervise, evaluate, and support the professional development and growth of the Youth Programs Alumni Services Fellow.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Plan and facilitate regular team meetings with Youth Programs Team.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Act as Youth Programs Team liaison, by reporting regularly to Executive Director about program results and needs.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">In collaboration with Youth Programs Coordinator, recruit, hire, train, supervise, evaluate and support the professional development and growth of youth staff (10-13 during the school year, 20-25 during the summer).</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Ensure that volunteer and intern needs are met for all youth programs.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Oversee and ensure timely data entry for Youth Programs in the CiviCRM database through management of interns, volunteers and Alumni Services Fellow.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Develop annual budget for youth programs and monitor expenses.</font></font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Program Implementation (30%)</font></b></font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Implement two Girls in Action (GIA) sessions per year (6-8 weeks each), with the help and support of GIA intern.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Facilitate outreach and enrollment of Girls in Action.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Identify volunteer and intern staffing needs for Girls in Action. Manage volunteers and interns.</font></font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Curriculum and Capacity Building (20%)</font></b></font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Manage ongoing development of youth program curricula to ensure programs are best fulfilling and strengthening the organization’s mission of youth development, environmental stewardship, and social justice.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">In collaboration with Youth Programs Team, develop annual goals and objectives for youth programs, and develop and implement tools for effective program evaluation.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Co-design, implement, and evaluate a strategy to increase youth organizing and advocacy among the Youth Instructor team.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Facilitate exchange and interaction between Youth Programs and other BNB departments.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Plan and coordinate periodic Youth Programs events to further youth development and build the BNB youth community.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Build BNB's collaborations with other organizations, including Boston area schools and community centers, connecting cycling and mechanics to students' academic success, physical and emotional fitness, and sense of civic engagement.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Represent Bikes Not Bombs to funders, allied organizations, parents, and the general public in collaboration with development and youth program staff.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Work with fellow community organizations to host events that further youth empowerment and overall BNB mission.</font></font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Resource Development (15%)</font></b></font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">With the Executive Director, identify new grant opportunities, draft proposals and reports, and help to maintain yearly grants calendar.</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Track and report youth programs data (numbers, improvements and anecdotes) for resource development purposes.</font></font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics and experience:</font></b></font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Ability to be both a creative, strategic visionary and a practical thinker</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Self-motivated, highly organized, systems oriented</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Strong written and verbal communication skills</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Excellent interpersonal skills (one-on-one and in a group format), cultural competency, strong listening skills</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Experience in program management and staff/volunteer supervision, with the ability to mentor, motivate, prioritize, and set clear expectations</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Experience with and interest in developing youth organizing component of programming</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">2+ years experience working directly with 10-18 year olds</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Knowledge of Boston neighborhoods, schools, and resources, including the dynamics of the neighborhoods surrounding BNB</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Understanding of and commitment to positive youth development</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Strong bike mechanics skills and knowledge of safe urban riding</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Demonstrated commitment to inspiring environmental stewardship and social justice</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Facility with Macintosh computers, and experience using MS Word and Excel</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Experience developing and managing budgets</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Strong collaborator, able to work with a team and adapt quickly to changing situations</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Skills in program evaluation and curriculum development</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Must be willing and able to work after-school program schedule and some Saturdays</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Multilingual/Bilingual (Spanish, English, Haitian Creole and/or Cape Verdean Creole) candidates highly preferred</font></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Must love bikes!</font></font></li> </ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Please submit a cover letter and résumé to </font><a href="mailto:hiring@bikesnotbombs.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">hiring@bikesnotbombs.org</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> by September 10, 2010. Start date is Wednesday, October 6th.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; color: rgb(2, 2, 2); min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Bikes Not Bombs encourages applicants of diverse age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, physical ability, religion, and sexuality. Women and people of color highly encouraged to apply.</font></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="3" color="#020202" style="font: 12.0px Times; color: #020202"><br></font></div></body></html>