Trip & Youth Services Coordinator

General Responsibilities

Oversees and coordinates various off campus trips for the Global Youth Village.  This includes:   arrival and departure days in Washington DC at the beginning and end of each session, and during the week-long “Community Involvement Project” at the end of the summer season, which includes day trips in the local area as well as Washington DC, with a focus on leadership & community action. As a trip leader, this person is also responsible for day-to-day group management and safety, and facilitating the group’s learning process. Must also have the ability to represent Legacy International / Global Youth Village in public.   During each GYV session, assist with youth communications  with home.

Minimum Qualifications:

• College graduate with at least 1 years professional youth work experience, and at least 25 years of age
• Demonstrated experience with service learning programming or experience working with community service based organizations.
• Knowledgeable about the Washington DC area preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively with others.
• Previous professional level administrative, programming or counseling experience with teens, preferably in a residential or travel program setting.
• Experience in trip planning and logistics.
• Experience managing groups of teens, preferably in a travel program
• Orderly, able to organize and handle lots of information, tasks, and finances.
• Proven ability to effectively accept & offer feedback; ability to take initiative and seek/accept guidance as needed.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated with high personal stamina. Good character, integrity, adaptability and self-reflective.
• Possesses strength & endurance required to manage other staff & youth during extended period of being on–duty as required while traveling.
• Ability to establish works priorities, respond to unanticipated needs & work under pressure.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team; ability to manage a team.
• Ability to drive in the US, with a valid driver’s license and a safety record involving no major incidents in the last 3-5 years.  Prefer if has experience driving 12 to 15-passenger vans
• Current First Aid & CPR certification
• Fluent in English.

Responsible to:         Global Youth Village Director

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Design and deliver the “Community Involvement Project” (CIP) (at the end of session 3).  This entails: working with local and DC partners on design, logistics, and management of budget and orientation of staff delivery team of up to 3 people.
2. Work with Youth Outreach Coordinator to design and carry out plans related to Washington, DC based arrivals and departures for each session.  This includes escorting young people from international destinations, and some sightseeing excursions, and “meet and greet” of parents and youths upon arrival (being the first Legacy face they see).  Help establish positive group dynamic upon arrival. On departure days, help youths “cry gracefully” and move in timely way to their departure transport.
3. Coordinate group (youth & staff) to follow trip itinerary and make any adjustments needed to overall schedule and approach to traffic management, transportation, touring, etc.
4. Revise, issue and announce schedules to all necessary parties.
5. Orient youth and trip staff team to duties and responsibilities
6. Make proper decisions regarding the safety and security of youths at all times, deal with emergency situations, and obtain proper medical care if needed. Discipline as needed.
7. Monitor compliance with ACA risk management trip standards (1^st aid preparedness, emergency communication procedures, medical and insurance paperwork, etc).
8. Conduct daily meetings with other trip staff, delegating tasks as needed.
9. Responsible for certain aspects of trip finances.
10. Design and implement evaluation process for CIP.
11. Coordinate and oversee  youth communications (phone & email) with home
12. Assume other duties during each GYV session as trip planning duties allow.  This may include teaching an afternoon recreational activity, serving as a lifeguard, or working with the evening program coordinator to preparing for an evening or weekend event.  This may also include serving as a driver/escort during church trip outings in the local area once a session, or helping with errands in the local area.
13. Evaluates program structure and activities at end of season, making recommendations for following summer

Essential Functions:

1. Ability to effectively communicate with youths and staff, and to provide necessary instruction, feedback, and training.
2. Ability to observe youth behavior assesses its appropriateness, enforce appropriate safety regulations and emergency procedures, and provide appropriate guidance and discipline.
3. Ability to communicate to staff and youths the safety regulations and emergency procedures in case of an all-camp emergency.
4. Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards.
5. Cognitive and communication abilities to manage large, complex event management.
6. Cognitive and communication abilities to manage complex tasks with medium sized groups, to plan and conduct service project activities off campus.
7. Possesses strength and endurance required to maintain constant supervision of youth in a rural, residential camp setting.
8. Ability to operate essential office equipment needed to carry out responsibilities (i.e. telephone, computer, photocopy machine).

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The Domino Effect of Community Service

Recognizing the importance of the “domino effect” on civic engagement within your community is vital to its growth and preservation.  You rarely ever see just one person involved in a “community” project, instead several members are compelled to become involved and make a difference. With this concept in mind, working with youth in particular can change a generation. We need our youth to recognize the value of preserving our communities and encouraging growth in a constructive way. 

Here at the Global Youth Village , we try to instill the importance of this concepts in our participants as we provide the tools necessary for them to become community leaders. We show our participants the importance of giving back, while encouraging their peers to do the same. Our hope is by encourage a small group of youth, we will create a global domino effect amongst youth around the world.

 Become part of our “domino effect” and attend GYV this summer!   APPLY TODAY! E-mail Suhad Rasoul at gyv@legacyintl.org for more information.

Indonesians launch community projects

Our 22 Indonesian students have returned home with plans to improve their communities.  Learn more about their projects. 

PROPOSED PROJECTS: GORONTALO

Barak and Awa: My Library is My Life

• Conduct a seminar at their school and five area schools about literacy/readership.
• Get the heads of each class (16 classes totaling 200 students) at their school to do a needs assessment as a way of evaluating what to purchase for the library; goal is 50-60 books.
• Redecorate the library (involving administration, student groups, local government, etc.)
• Start a school-wide class contest held each month (read-a-thon)

Fahri and Zein:             Culture for Our People

• Establish a community theater troupe focusing on traditional cultural performances; will draw young people from schools in the Bone Bolango municipal area.
• Establish a community magazine (published, not wall) that is entirely devoted to the writings of young people in the same area.
• Profits raised from selling the magazine and minor ticket prices for performances.
• Get other schools involved via promotion via seminars/presentations.

Siti and Yahya:             Healthy Canteen

• Their boarding school doesn’t have a canteen for students to eat in or provide food.  They want to build a canteen place that sells healthy food.  They’ll do a seminar at the school promoting healthy eating habits, a workshop for food sellers that sell at the school (five or six businesses) and build the canteen.
• After it is built as a model, will do workshops at 10-15 nearby schools, focusing on elementary schools so as to develop lifelong habits.  They’ll do presentations and workshops.

PROPOSED PROJECTS: BATAM

Qisty and Jeri:             School Environment Project

• Presentations about environmental issues at their school (there are 21 classes, 26 students per a class, and a total student body of 800 students.)
• Start daily school environmental patrols
• Recycle fair event with each class competing.  Money raised will be put back into environmental projects.

Ferry and Elsa:             English for All

• Start a community English class meeting 2x a week for 1^st and 2^nd grade children from an at-risk neighborhood.  20 students per class. Classes will  last 90 minutes.
• Get a wifi hook up for the classroom along with two computers.  Computers will have educational software for learning English installed and also be available for internet use and computer training.
• Get school supplies for the students.
• Monthly English competitions for the students to keep learning fun.

Debby and Arin:             Cleaning Out Our Environment (COE)

• Involving at least three high schools in their project
• Presentations at schools concerning environment – get facilities cleaned, separate trash, collect trash, etc.  Schools will be involved in the craft project.
• Start a recycled craft project.  After cleaning and sorting trash, they’ll put non-organic trash to use by remaking it as crafts which will then be sold.
• Crafts will be sold and proceeds will go towards buying cleaning supplies for involved schools.

PROPOSED PROJECTS: CILEGON

Nia and Aldi: Recycle for Farmers

• Involves seven area schools.
• Presentation at local schools, separating trash, and starting a program where they will collect the organic trash from the participating schools to compost.
• After three weeks of composting, they will provide the compost to area farmers as free fertilizer for their crops.  They’ll be collecting hay from the farmers to assist in the composting and as a way of involvement.
• Goal is to provide compost to at least ten farmers and provide 50kg of compost a month.

Reza and Sasky: One Hole Change the World

• Fundraising and education program to raise money and volunteers for building biopori.  Done through proposals, seminars, and school area competitions (photography contest with environmental theme as an example).
• Once funds are raised, students will create the tool for building biopori.
• Create 20 biopori in 10 area schools
• Create no littering signs and other pro environmental slogans in the same schools.

Cahya and Tulloh: Separation of Rubbish

• Seminars on garbage issues at 5 area schools (mixed elementary, middle, and high schools)
• Plant at least 10 trees at each of these schools.
• Get separate trash cans and signs for separating organic and non-organic trash at each school.

Syarief and Darwin: Let’s Start to Keep Our School Clean and Healthy

• Fundraise to get supplies for cleaning the schools and organize seminars about cleaning/environment at seven area schools.
• Establish weekly cleaning days at each school.  Organic trash will go into Nia and Aldi’s project.
• Organize a cleaning contest between the 7 area schools with a trophy that moves to the cleanest school each semester.
• Talked about ministry of education involvement.

Gandung and Shopi: Garbage is our Friend – 3 pg translate

• Separate garbage at their school and five area schools (presentations – one day seminars on environmental issues and recycling)
• Recycle fair between classes at the six schools.
• $$ raised via the recycle fair will be used to buy food that will be dispersed to poor families.

The Indonesian Youth Leadership Program is

Supported by the US Department of State – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs