About New City Kids
New City Kids is an innovative and holistic urban youth ministry located in Paterson (NJ), Jersey City (NJ), Grand Rapids (MI) and Detroit (MI). At New City Kids, teens are given leadership roles and help create, manage, and lead performing arts after school centers, sailing schools, a summer camp, and other creative ministries. Elementary and middle school aged students participate in these ministries and grow up seeing that they can accomplish and succeed like the teens around them. As students engage with New City Kids, we come alongside them and invite them to know the power of the gospel and to become disciples of Jesus Christ.
Fellowship Overview
New City Kids’ alumni fellowship is designed to help you gain leadership experience while engaging in active service to youth in Detroit. Alumni fellows will primarily be helping to plan and implement the New City Kids Summer Camp where they will lead in creating content for a summer camp class, training teen staff on how to implement those lessons, and overseeing various administrative tasks to help the Summer Camp run smoothly.
As an alumni fellow, you’ll focus on one or two of these summer camp areas:
• Music – Work as a lead teacher in a music class where you will help to create curriculum, train teen staff and implement summer camp curriculum to create a fun and music filled experience. • Outdoor/Games - Work to create fun and engaging outdoor activities for kids around the theme of The Great Treasure Hunt.
• Admin and Summer Camp Support - Help to oversee daily operations such as meal preparations, check-in/check-out, etc.
• Sermon and Worship - Support the daily worship and sermons by leading a group of teens to prepare skits, games and music for daily community times.
You’re a great candidate if you’re:
• Driven – New City Kids is a growing, fast-paced organization. We’re looking for team members who are willing to jump in, ask good questions and then take initiative to serve the kids and teens well. • A Learner – You’re curious and open to feedback. Read the local paper. Read books. Talk with your teammates. Debrief with your supervisor. Wrestle with the hard questions about God, the city, and the Kingdom unfolding around you. • Aligned with New City Kids’ Mission – You affirm New City Kids’ statement of faith (newcitykids.org/statement-of-faith) and are excited about working at a Gospel-centered urban youth ministry • Authentic – Be yourself without focusing on what others think of you. Carry yourself in a way that is true to who God made you to be as you build relationships with those around you. • A Communicator – You’ll be building relationships with kids and teens in large and small group settings, helping with tutoring sessions and classes, and leading bible studies.
Details:
Position: This is a paid summer fellowship. The summer fellowship will be 20-30 hours/week from late June through early August.
Compensation: $12/hr
Hours: Part Time 20-30 hours/week
Start Date: Mid June -Early August 2024
How to Apply: Please Send your resume and a cover letter to detroit@newcitykids.org
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Compensation: $12.00 per hour
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
"Loving kids for change to create a community of spiritual, leadership, academic, and musical development."
New City Kids offers after school programming for youth in under-resourced neighborhoods. Children and teens get a chance to explore music and academics in a creative and fun environment—these programs give children a safe place to feel and hear that they are valued and loved. New City Kids aims to draw children into hope by developing in them skills, talents, and desires for their future. By surrounding them with a community of love and development, we set youth on a path of transformation that will carry them forward for the rest of their lives.
Since 2009, 100% of high school seniors employed by New City Kids have graduated high school, 99% have gone to college, and 90% complete college by age 25 - 10x the national average for low-income youth. Youth from 1st-12th grade are immersed in an academic and artistic environment 5 days a week at our after school centers.
Our vision is to walk with a child from age six to age nineteen and be an advocate, family, teacher and mentor to that child. We strive to set these children on a path of life transformation that will carry them forward for the rest of their lives.
New City Kids has a national vision with a powerful local impact, currently serving alongside over 500 youth a day in three cities: Jersey City, NJ, Paterson, NJ, and Grand Rapids, MI.
