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Summer Daycamp Leader - PT North Texas Internship

Project Transformation North Texas
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SUMMER PT CORPS MEMBER INTERNSHIP - VARIOUS ROLES AVAILABLE, SEE ALL DESCRIPTIONS ON WEBSITE

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Competitive paid internship, the sooner you apply, the better your chances of an interview!

Our mission is to engage young adults in purposeful leadership and ministry, support children in holistic development, and connect churches with communities.
Project Transformation North Texas is an AmeriCorps Program. Project Transformation is transforming the lives of young adults and the children they serve through our year-round programs in underserved areas of Dallas and Denison. The service experience is hands-on with the young adults serving in teams and connecting children from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds with many adult volunteers. Members have recurring access to vulnerable populations in accordance with CNCS definition. Members are required to wear the AmeriCorps logo daily while serving as an AmeriCorps Member. Members will serve under the supervision of Project Transformation’s Director of Programming and Leadership Development, Tonya Burton.
 
Essential Duties:
Ø Plan and implement an eight-week summer day camp, and one-week overnight camp for children and/or youth, Mondays through Thursdays from 9:00am – 3:00pm, serving approximately 80 children, 1st through 9th grade. Daily activities include one-to-one reading, physical recreation activities, arts enrichment, music, life skills or other activities in which the gifts and talents of the young adults can be shared with the children.
Ø Coordinate and implement monthly community events (Family Fun Nights).
Ø Build relationships with children and families by visiting the parents of the children involved in his/her summer program.
Ø Participate in career/service exploration events each Friday. (Exposure to various avenues of social service opportunities through guest speakers, field trips and interactions with community leaders.)
Ø Live in community with other young adults in housing provided by Project Transformation.
 
Qualifications:
Ø Must be a U.S citizen, U.S. national or lawful permanent resident alien of the United States.
Ø Must be at least 17 years of age.
Ø Must have completed at least one year of college.
Ø Must enjoy working with children and/or youth.
Ø Must display leadership skills, including but not limited to communication, organization, problem solving, dependability, commitment, and flexibility.
Ø Must be self-motivated and able to work effectively independently as well as with a team.
Ø Must be comfortable with leading and/or serving with the site team, including work-study students, other AmeriCorps members, site staff, volunteers, community partners and PT staff.
Ø Must have proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and Internet.
Ø Must support the Mission and Core Values of Project Transformation.
Ø Must meet AmeriCorps qualification criteria, including serving a minimum of 450 hours and serving through August 2, 2019.
*Reasonable accommodations will be made to persons with mental or physical disabilities.

Internship Learning Objectives: 
  •  Learn our core values and how they play into transferable skill sets for the future
  • Complete and receive ongoing training and feedback from our staff as well as peer led leadership teams.
  • Identify and implement successful strategies for exploring career and future opportunities.
  • Explore issues of social justice and the impact on underserved communities
  • Identify healthy models for classroom management, teaching social and emotional learning, teamwork, community engagement, and conflict resolution.

Compensation:
Ø $2,500 living stipend for one year of service
Ø $1,538.36 education award (can be applied towards past loans or future education) – upon completion of hours and full length of service term as stated above
Ø Housing and most meals during term of service

 

In the event of a local (e.g. County), state (e.g. Office of the Governor), or federal disaster declaration (e.g. Federal Emergency Management Agency), OneStar may request AmeriCorps members to temporarily deploy to an affected area to participate in response or recovery operations for up to 60 days. If such a situation occurs, OneStar will make every attempt to not disrupt members’ primary service activities. If members are deployed at OneStar’s request, service hours spent in response to that event may be counted towards the total required member hours. Members will spend no more than 120 days on disaster-related activities during a term of service without the prior consent of OneStar Foundation unless otherwise specified in the program’s approved grant and program design (in the case of programs within the Disaster Services Focus Area).


Project Transformation’s collaborative model of ministry harnesses the creative energy and leadership of college age young adults, who live in intentional community, and lead summer and after-school programs for children and youth in various underserved neighborhoods. PT’s young adults (PT Corps Members) meet with church and nonprofit leaders to explore various ministry-related vocations and spend time discerning their vocational call to life-long service. The programs are held at United Methodist churches located in the heart of low-income neighborhoods, thereby helping those churches connect in meaningful ways with their communities. Dozens of other churches and organizations throughout North Texas partner together to support this work, investing in these young lives with their time and resources.
Children – College students – Churches. This is a win-win-win formula, but relationships are at the heart of everything we do. It is through relationships that lives are transformed.