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Job Title: Sports and Outdoor Activities Coordinator

Organization: Youth Fusion

Discipline: Recreation Science, Exercise Science, Physical education, or related fields

Terms: 4 or 10-month paid internship

Job Location: James Bay Cree Nations (Northern Quebec)

Salary: $475 per week; transportation and accommodations provided

Application Deadline: April 1^st 2012

Dates: August 20 – December 21, with option to renew from January-June.

Job Description:

Youth Fusion is an award-winning, non-profit organization that aims to empower youth, create an engaging school environment, reduce absenteeism and increase academic success. Youth Fusion has been working in James Bay Cree Communities since January 2010. In this context, we have four main areas of activity:

1. Organizing extra-curricular activities;
2. Working with teachers to develop and animate classroom activities that help make school learning more relevant for teenagers;
3. Working with local organizations to help create links between the school and community;
4. Providing academic support for at-risk students.

The selected candidate will live in a Cree community and work with the local high school for 4-10 months. Transportation and a shared accommodation will be provided.

As the Sports and Outdoor Activities project coordinator, you will have the opportunity to organize and animate extra-curricular activities on a daily basis (eg: floor hockey, basketball, dance, orienteering, snowshoeing, etc). You are encouraged to work with local partners to organize certain activities such as a healthy-cooking class and outdoor activities (camping, hiking, fishing, etc). You may also have the opportunity to coach students for regional sports tournaments.

Additionally, you will work with another Youth Fusion project coordinator to animate a welcoming space where students can drop in and hang out between classes or after school. Finally, you will spend 5-10 hours per week providing academic support (tutoring, homework help, study-skills workshops, etc). This may be done during class hours, in collaboration with teachers, or after school.

Our mission at Youth Fusion is to counter drop out rates by engaging the youth in projects that motivate them, and by creating a sense of belonging and school spirit. You will be working closely with school administration, other local organizations, and Youth Fusion’s Director of Operations to involve at-risk youth in the activities and to ensure that this project meets these objectives.

Duties:

• Organize and animate after-school sports, games or outdoor activities on a daily basis
• Recruit students and encourage them to become actively involved in the sports activities and outdoor adventure club
• Collaborate with local organizations such as recreation department, youth council, cultural department, etc.
• Help supervise and animate a drop-in space for students
• Provide individual tutoring & homework help to targeted students
• Respect the school’s code of conduct
• Survey students to get feedback about activitie;
• Communicate with Northern Regional Coordinator and school administration on a weekly basis
• Bi-weekly reports, mid-term and final evaluations, and contribution to Youth Fusion’s blog

Requirements:

• The intern must be pursuing a degree or be a recent graduate from a Montreal University in a relevant discipline
• The intern must have experience working with youth
• Experience coaching sports is an asset
• The intern must have a strong desire to be a role model for the school’s students and act as an agent of social change
• The intern must be able to take initiative and work independently
• Experience with First Nations communities and knowledge issues that affect First Nations in Canada is an asset
• Experience working in a cross-cultural context is an asset
• The intern must be fluent in English (French is an asset)
• Motivation, initiative, persistence, communication skills, vision and imagination are essential for this internship

** We are open to discussing how this position can be credited as an internship within your program of study**

OFFER CODE: cspt2012