Health Educator Job at Harlem Children's Zone, New York State

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  • Harlem Children's Zone
  • New York State

Job Description

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks an enthusiastic, dedicated, and mission aligned Health Educator to support our K-12 programming.

The Health Educator will bring a passion for the mission of Harlem Children’s Zone: break the cycle of intergenerational poverty with comprehensive, on-the-ground programming that builds up opportunities for children and families to thrive in school, work, and life.

The Health Educator will join our team that is dedicated to implementing Healthy Harlem programming at respective sites and report to the health coordinator. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic, energetic health educator that will facilitate family health workshops for caregivers and individual goal-setting sessions with youth.

For more information, check out Want to Work at Harlem Children’s Zone? Here’s 7 Things You Need to Know .

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, health education or related field

Who you are

  • Experience conducting health/nutrition assessments, facilitating group and individual health counseling, and implementing health education workshops
  • Comfortable working in various urban settings and with diverse populations
  • Familiarity with motivational interviewing techniques
  • Team-oriented with strong organizational and collaborative skills
  • Excellent group facilitation, classroom management and presentation skills
  • Adapts well to changes in assignments and priorities with the ability to respond effectively to new information, changing conditions, and unexpected obstacles

What you’ll do

  • Facilitate individual and small group sessions to guide youth to adopt healthy eating and physical activity habits
  • Facilitate weekly family health workshops for parents and caregivers
  • Ensure that all high-risk students meet every two weeks for one-on-one goal setting sessions
  • Facilitate Wellness Clubs to promote peer support and opportunities to engage in fun wellness activities
  • Support site-based Healthy Harlem team in implementing nutrition and physical activity programming
  • Document student activities, participation, and services provided
  • Provide consistent motivation, enthusiasm, and role modeling for healthy lifestyle choices
  • Advocate healthier eating for students, families, and staff
  • Gather measurements for height, weight and PACER fitness test
  • Attend in-house professional development trainings

Schedule


Fall & Spring: Monday–Friday, any time between 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM. 

After school programming: minimum 20 hours per week, with a minimum of 4 hours per day. Schedules are determined based on the program. 

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive.

Please take a look at our Part-Time benefits below.
Our exceptional Part-Time benefits include:

  • Career advancement
  • Paid sick leave
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Physical wellness discounts
  • Commuter benefits
  • Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

The hourly rate for this position is $30-$35 per hour. To be considered, interested applicants should apply directly through the posting. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. Harlem Children's Zone and Promise Academy Charter Schools does not provide work visas for candidates who require employer sponsorship to ensure work authorization in the United States. Harlem Children’s Zone is an EOE.

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Part time, Monday to Friday,

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