Youth Development Instructor

bridge heart · Bronx, NY, Bronx County, NY; New York State, United States

Youth Development Instructor — BridgeHeart

BridgeHeart is seeking a caring, engaging, and experienced Youth Development Instructor to deliver our school-based personal development curriculum to teenagers.

The instructor will lead interactive sessions designed to help students develop self-awareness, self-esteem, happiness, emotional resilience, healthy relationships, and positive decision-making skills . The goal is to create a safe environment where students can openly participate, reflect on their experiences, recognize their strengths, and develop practical tools for handling challenges.

Responsibilities include:

• Deliver BridgeHeart’s structured youth development curriculum in a classroom setting.
• Lead engaging discussions, activities, exercises, and group conversations.
• Build positive and trusting relationships with students.
• Encourage students to develop confidence, self-awareness, and healthy coping skills.
• Help students identify personal strengths, values, goals, and positive qualities.
• Create a supportive, respectful, and non-judgmental classroom environment.
• Work professionally with school staff and the BridgeHeart team.
• Provide feedback on student engagement and program effectiveness.

Ideal candidate:
We are looking for someone who is warm, confident, professional, emotionally intelligent, and comfortable working with teenagers . Experience in education, youth development, counseling, psychology, social-emotional learning, mentoring, or a related field is preferred.

This is a facilitation and youth-development position, The instructor will teach and facilitate the BridgeHeart curriculum This type of youth-development role commonly combines relationship-building, life-skills instruction, and social-emotional development.