We’re Hiring Wednesday: Our Piece of the Pie

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Our Piece of the Pie, Inc. (OPP®) empowers youth with the key competencies needed to overcome barriers and succeed in education and employment. Our Piece of the Pie serves Greater Hartford and young people ages 14-24, who have one or more of the following risk factors: under-credited and overaged, Child Welfare involved, justice involved, low income and unemployed or under-employed.

Employment Opportunities:

Tutor

Job Type

Part-time

Description

Department: Youth Development Services

Reports to: Director of Youth Development/Outreach Engagement and Retention

Job Title: Tutor

Employment Status: Regular Part-Time

FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt

Job Purpose: Our Piece of the Pie, Inc., is a youth development organization that serves more than 1000 urban youth annually, age 14-25, through a variety of services and programs helping them to become successful adults. The Tutor assists in providing developmentally appropriate activities to enhance the curriculum, by providing homework help and a warm healthy interaction with youth.

Salary Description

$30/hour

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Certified School Social Worker

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Reports to: Director of Academic Services

Supervises: None

Employment Status: Regular Full-Time

Job Purpose: The School Social Worker will assist students with academic learning by providing strategic services that identify and address the social-emotional-environmental issues that interfere with the educational process. Working with parents/guardians, teachers, school principal/principal’s designee, and community-based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote students’ positive school adjustment.

Salary Description

$50,000-$53,000 per year

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Part Time Certified High School Special Education Teacher

Job Type

Part-time

Description

OPPortunity Academy, the academic arm of OPP is a unique alternative high school in Hartford, CT. At OA we believe that the most important service we can offer to young people is to provide them with authentic opportunities to develop, increase, and exercise their own agency. This means that students MUST be in the driver’s seat when it comes to their own education. They MUST have the freedom to make critical choices, express their authentic voices, and advocate for themselves without fear of judgment. They MUST become the producers of knowledge. This role is responsible for delivering services based on each student’s need and individual education plan (IEP). The teacher will coordinate with certified and non-certified staff to deliver all appropriate services and requirements.

Salary Description

$28/per hour

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Part Time Certified High School Science Teacher

Job Type

Part-time

Description

OPPortunity Academy, the academic arm of OPP is a unique alternative high school in Hartford, CT. At OA, we believe that the most important service we can offer to young people is to provide them with authentic opportunities to develop, increase, and exercise their own agency. This means that students MUST be in the driver’s seat when it comes to their own education. They MUST have the freedom to make critical choices, express their authentic voices, and advocate for themselves without fear of judgment. They MUST become the producers of knowledge.

Salary Description

$28/hour

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Youth Development Specialist

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Service Area: Youth Development Services

Job Title: Youth Development Specialist, (YDS)

Reports to: Director of Youth Development Services

Supervises: N/A

FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt

Job Summary: YDS serves as primary youth contact and coordinates services, monitors progress, and initiates service adjustments as needed. In addition, YDS works with youth to design and adhere to Individual Success Plan (ISP) with customized dosage based on youth need & skill levels, to address barriers and stabilize basic needs, including mental health, housing, etc., helping them to navigate internal and external OPP offerings in youth development, education, and employment.

Salary Description

$38,000-$41,000 per year

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Licensed Clinician/Youth Focus

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Employment Status: Regular Full Time

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Job Purpose: Provides clinical assessment and appropriate therapy to OPP youth. Maintains confidential case files; assists in the development of educational and preventative services to OPP youth who participate in any of OPP’s service areas.

Salary Description

$65,000-$70,000

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Youth Business Arts Instructor/Workforce Development Focus

Job Type

Part-time

Description

Reports to: Director of Youth Development Services

Supervises: N/A

Employment Status: Part- time

FLSA Classification: Non Exempt

Job Summary: Responsible for facilitating a learning environment for participants by providing creative arts instruction, Arts & crafts, ceramics, sculpting, silk screening, tie-dye, beading, papier mache, sketching/drawing, painting, clay projects, jewelry making, braiding, decoupage, fabric painting. Provides Individual career research and planning, facilitates basic Career Competency development training based on youth’s individual success plan and addressing youth’s barriers as well as short and intermediate employment goals.

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