Employment Opportunities
Interested in joining our team? We look for dedicated and energetic individuals to carry out our programming at our vibrant youth center located in downtown Lewiston, Maine. We need people passionate about youth development who value forming trust-based mentoring relationships and are experienced with providing social-emotional support to youth.
CEDAR Professional Internships
The CEDAR (Community Engagement to Develop Abilities and Readiness) Professional Internship program engages 18-25 year olds living locally in the Lewiston-Auburn area or who have utilized Tree Street’s programming as professional interns with our programs. This is a part-time position offering CEDAR Interns the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to be successful in the workplace through community engagement, administrative responsibility, facilitated trainings and study groups.
Summer Internships
Tree Street’s Summer Internship program provides 6-8 young adults with an intensive capacity-building experience in youth development and education. From mid-June to early August, Summer Interns live in the downtown Lewiston community, teach K-5 camp classes, and coordinate afternoon enrichment activities with local teenagers. They build relationships with youth and one another as they immerse themselves in the community. Through training, service, and reflection, the Internship Program is designed to facilitate the personal and professional growth of Interns. As the summer program’s primary teachers, Interns can expect to gain knowledge and skills related to education, youth-development, and nonprofit service.
Current Openings
BRANCHES Program Manager
Full-Time
The BRANCHES Program Manager is a direct service role that works to increase access to higher education and career opportunities for youth in our BRANCHES program at our vibrant youth center located in downtown Lewiston, Maine.
We need someone passionate about access and equity who values forming trust-based mentoring relationships with youth and wants to lead the academic support and school engagement for a caseload of middle and high school students encouraging self discovery, and to achieve their future educational and professional goals.
REDWOOD Girls Empowerment Program Manager
Full-Time
The REDWOOD Girls/Young Women’s Empowerment Program serves all young girls/women at Tree Street Youth, from middle school to high school. REDWOOD seeks to engage the girls of our community through group activities, novel experiences/outings, and 1-1 mentoring.
We need someone passionate about youth development who values forming trust-based mentoring relationships and is experienced with providing social-emotional support to youth.
Pre-K & Kindergarten Youth Program Director
Full-Time
The Pre-K & Kindergarten Youth Program Director’s primary responsibility is two-fold: facilitating summer programming and academic year programming for Pre-K and Kindergarten youth at our center.
This includes: oversee enrichment programming such as classes and activities, create a weekly activities calendar, oversee mentors & volunteers, support classroom and behavioral management issues in each space, communicate with parents, manage data tracking and attendance, and ensure that youth are safe and supported at all times.
Youth Programs Assistant - Elementary
Part-Time
The Elementary Youth Programs Assistant provides direct support and mentorship to youth in our WILLOW Afterschool and Summer Program.
This includes creating a fun, caring, positive environment for youth, developing strong, trusting relationships with youth, supervising spaces to ensure safe, respectful behavior, and supporting youth with their social emotional growth.
This is a 30 hour per week position.
As Tree Street continually reiterates our programs and initiatives to best meet the needs of youth in our community, there may be opportunities that are not listed here.
You can share your resume with us for consideration for job openings that emerge!
Send an email to oren@treestreetyouth.org to express your interest.
Next STEP Restorative and Community Support
Full Time | Accepting Applications Until Position Filled
We are looking for a goal-oriented, passionate, and youth-centered individual for a direct service role that supports middle and high school-aged youth who attend Next STEP and Tree Street Youth. We need someone passionate about access and equity who values forming trust-based mentoring relationships with youth and wants to work collaboratively with the Next STEP and Tree Street Youth teams to provide social emotional and academic support to middle and high school students.
In addition to direct service work, we invite and work to empower all team members to explore leadership roles tied to program design. We are constantly engaging in a unique design process that seeks to transform the educational opportunities offered to students in Lewiston. We are intentionally working to do school differently.
Organization Overview
Tree Street Youth is a young non-profit organization located in the Downtown “Tree Street Neighborhoods” of Lewiston, Maine. Our vision is to cultivate leaders who fear less, love more, and dream big, boldly shaping the future and creating communities united across lines of difference. Our mission is to support the youth of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine through academics, the arts, and athletics. We provide Lewiston- Auburn youth with a safe place that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development.
At all times we strive to create a safe and welcoming environment for all youth while equipping them with the tools they will need to not only be successful now, but also in their futures. As an organization we encourage all youth no matter what grade they are in to explore all higher education options and future opportunities as they become lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and contributors to the world.
Program Overview
Next STEP (Support + Teamwork + Engagement = Success) began in 2017 with a unique design team of Lewiston Public School district leaders, Tree Street staff, community members, and youth who envisioned a new way of doing high school. After a year of research that included conversations with hundreds of LHS students, education and community leaders, and the discovery that nearly 1/3 of the students attending Lewiston High School were “off track” (behind by at least a year in credits), the design team set out to build a responsive school framework grounded in 3 primary findings:
- Students yearned desperately for real-life relevancy in what they were learning at school;
- Students wanted to explore the complexities of justice and engage in community building across lines of difference;
- Students had significant social-emotional needs and needed unique, collaborative supports to ensure that they could remain focused and engaged in school.
Building from these 3 findings, Next STEP’s pilot was born during the 2018-19 academic year with 20 students. All students opted in to participate in the program and help co-create the school framework with a new set of teachers and community partners. The program will expand to serve grades 7-12 in the upcoming school year.
Position Overview
This position focuses on providing social, emotional, and academic support to middle and high school students.
Next STEP responsibilities:
- Support all Next STEP students to stay engaged in their academics and school programming
- Facilitate and support daily circle
- Support the creation and implementation of restorative processes
- Support students in exploring aspirations, purpose-driven pathways, and future goals
- Support with school-based projects or special events
- Provide 1-on-1 support to students as needed, including social emotional and academic support
Supervision
Next STEP Anchor, Oren Stevens
Schedule
This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, with the typical schedule being Monday-Friday, 7:30AM-3:30PM, although there is some flexibility and variability. May include occasional weekend hours.
Start Date
Immediate
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to julia@treestreetyouth.org and alli@treestreetyouth.org. Selected candidates will receive an email to set up a phone/zoom or in-person interview.
All decisions are based on nondiscriminatory factors without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or status as a veteran. We promote a positive and healthy working environment with respect for diversity.
Youth Programs Assistant & Mentor
Part Time | Accepting Applications Until Position Filled
Organization Overview
Tree Street Youth is a young non-profit organization located in the Downtown “Tree Street Neighborhoods” of Lewiston, Maine. Our vision is to cultivate leaders who fear less, love more, and dream big, boldly shaping the future and creating communities united across lines of difference. Our mission is to support the youth of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine through academics, the arts, and athletics. We provide Lewiston- Auburn youth with a safe place that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development.
At all times we strive to create a safe and welcoming environment for all youth while equipping them with the tools they will need to not only be successful now, but also in their futures. As an organization we encourage all youth no matter what grade they are in to explore all higher education options and future opportunities as they become lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and contributors to the world.
Program Overview
Our Center offers the Afterschool Program during the academic year and the Summer Program. The Afterschool Program provides a safe space that offers programming from 2pm-6pm during the academic year. Youth between Pre-K and 12th grade can come to the center to get homework help, play games and sports, and participate in enrichment classes and activities like art, languages, dance, music, crafts, and more. The Summer Program includes a morning summer camp for elementary youth from 8am-12:30pm and afternoon activities for youth 6th-12th grade. Programming in the summer includes classes taught by Summer Interns, field trips, swimming days, and college visits, and provides breakfast and lunch to all participating youth. All programming at Tree Street is provided at no cost to families.
Position Responsibilities:
- Provide direct support to youth, including creating a fun, caring, positive environment for youth, planning and leading enriching activities, supervising spaces to ensure safe, respectful behavior, and supporting youth with their social emotional growth.
- Lead teacher of a classroom/gym activity – responsible for planning and leading out daily enrichment activity in one of the classroom or gym spaces
- Support daily clean-up, including cleaning up, sanitizating, and shutting down building spaces at the end of every shift.
- Support during arrival and dismissal times of youth, which may include leading the walking train to pick up and drop off youth.
- Occasional support supervision of 1-2 weekly outings (field trip or in-house small group activity).
- Attend weekly staff meetings and supervision meetings.
Supervision
The Youth Programs Assistant & Mentor reports to the Program Director Team.
Schedule
This is a part-time, 20-24 hours per week, salaried position with the schedule during the academic year being 2-6PM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and 10AM-6PM on Wednesday.
Start Date
Immediate Hire
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to julia@treestreetyouth.org and alli@treestreetyouth.org. Selected candidates will receive an email to set up a phone/zoom or in-person interview.
All decisions are based on nondiscriminatory factors without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or status as a veteran. We promote a positive and healthy working environment with respect for diversity.
WILLOW Elementary Program Manager
Full-Time | Accepting Applications Until Position Filled
Organization Overview
Tree Street Youth is a young non-profit organization located in the Downtown “Tree Street Neighborhoods” of Lewiston, Maine. Our vision is to cultivate leaders who fear less, love more, and dream big, boldly shaping the future and creating communities united across lines of difference. Our mission is to support the youth of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine through academics, the arts, and athletics. We provide Lewiston- Auburn youth with a safe place that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development.
At all times we strive to create a safe and welcoming environment for all youth while equipping them with the tools they will need to not only be successful now, but also in their futures. As an organization we encourage all youth no matter what grade they are in to explore all higher education options and future opportunities as they become lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and contributors to the world.
Program Overview
The Elementary Youth “Littles” Program has two main components: the Afterschool Program during the academic year and the Summer Program.
The Afterschool Program provides a safe space that offers programming from 2pm-5pm during the academic year. Youth between Pre-K and 5th grade can come to the center to get homework help, play games and sports, and participate in enrichment classes and activities like art, languages, dance, music, crafts, and more.
The Summer Program includes a morning summer camp for elementary youth from 8am-12:30pm. Programming in the summer includes classes taught by Summer Interns, field trips, swimming days, and college visits, and provides breakfast and lunch to all participating youth. All programming at Tree Street is provided at no cost to families.
The Elementary Program framework is also the home to our Mentor Staff and StreetLeader and SquadLeader Teen Leadership Program.
Position Responsibilities:
- Support with overseeing all daily operations of the little kids wing of the building.
- Plan and lead enrichment programming such as classes and activities and support activities led by other staff and interns
- Support supervision of mentors, StreetLeaders, SquadLeaders, and volunteers
- Support classroom and behavioral management issues in each space
- Communicate with parents during pick up and drop off
- Manage data tracking and attendance
- Ensure that youth are safe and supported at all times.
Supervision
The WILLOW Program Manager reports to the WILLOW Program Director.
Schedule
This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, with the typical schedule being Monday-Friday 10:00AM-6:00PM during the academic year and Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM during the summer. May include occasional weekend hours.
Start Date
Immediate Hire.
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to julia@treestreetyouth.org and oren@treestreetyouth.org. Selected candidates will receive an email to set up a phone/zoom or in-person interview.
All decisions are based on nondiscriminatory factors without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or status as a veteran. We promote a positive and healthy working environment with respect for diversity.
REDWOOD Program Assistant & Mentor
Part-Time | Accepting Applications Until Position Filled
Organization Overview
Tree Street Youth is a young non-profit organization located in the Downtown “Tree Street Neighborhoods” of Lewiston, Maine. Our vision is to cultivate leaders who fear less, love more, and dream big, boldly shaping the future and creating communities united across lines of difference. Our mission is to support the youth of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine through academics, the arts, and athletics. We provide Lewiston- Auburn youth with a safe place that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development.
At all times we strive to create a safe and welcoming environment for all youth while equipping them with the tools they will need to not only be successful now, but also in their futures. As an organization we encourage all youth no matter what grade they are in to explore all higher education options and future opportunities as they become lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and contributors to the world.
Program Overview
Our Center offers the Afterschool Program during the academic year and the Summer Program. The Afterschool Program provides a safe space that offers programming from 2pm-6pm during the academic year. Youth between Pre-K and 12th grade can come to the center to get homework help, play games and sports, and participate in enrichment classes and activities like art, languages, dance, music, crafts, and more. The Summer Program includes a morning summer camp for elementary youth from 8am-12:30pm and afternoon activities for youth 6th-12th grade. Programming in the summer includes classes taught by Summer Interns, field trips, swimming days, and college visits, and provides breakfast and lunch to all participating youth. All programming at Tree Street is provided at no cost to families.
The REDWOOD Youth Program Assistant and Mentor works directly with the REDWOOD girls empowerment program focused on serving girls grades 6th-12th through group and individual social emotional support and team building amongst the girls/young women of Tree Street.
Position Responsibilities:
- Provide direct support to youth, including creating a fun, caring, positive environment for youth, planning and leading enriching activities, supervising spaces to ensure safe, respectful behavior, and supporting youth with their social emotional growth.
- Lead teacher of a classroom/gym activity – responsible for planning and leading out daily enrichment activity in one of the classroom or gym spaces
- Support daily clean-up, including cleaning up, sanitizating, and shutting down building spaces at the end of every shift.
- Support during arrival and dismissal times of youth, which may include leading the walking train to pick up and drop off youth.
- Occasional support supervision of 1-2 weekly outings (field trip or in-house small group activity).
- Attend weekly staff meetings and supervision meetings.
Supervision
The REDWOOD Program Mentor reports to the REDWOOD Program Manager.
Schedule
This is a part-time, 20-24 hours per week, salaried position with the schedule during the academic year being 2-6PM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and 10AM-6PM on Wednesday. Summer hours are typically 12:30-4:30PM.
Start Date
Immediate Hire
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to julia@treestreetyouth.org and oren@treestreetyouth.org. Selected candidates will receive an email to set up a phone/zoom or in-person interview.
All decisions are based on nondiscriminatory factors without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or status as a veteran. We promote a positive and healthy working environment with respect for diversity.
SEQUOIA Program Assistant & Mentor
Part-Time | Accepting Applications Until Position Filled
Organization Overview
Tree Street Youth is a young non-profit organization located in the Downtown “Tree Street Neighborhoods” of Lewiston, Maine. Our vision is to cultivate leaders who fear less, love more, and dream big, boldly shaping the future and creating communities united across lines of difference. Our mission is to support the youth of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine through academics, the arts, and athletics. We provide Lewiston- Auburn youth with a safe place that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development.
At all times we strive to create a safe and welcoming environment for all youth while equipping them with the tools they will need to not only be successful now, but also in their futures. As an organization we encourage all youth no matter what grade they are in to explore all higher education options and future opportunities as they become lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and contributors to the world.
Program Overview
The Sequoia Young Men’s Empowerment Program serves all young men (Middle/high schoolers) at Tree Street Youth. Programming ranges from 1-1 mentoring to coordinating formal group activities for middle, and high school youth. Programming is grounded in youth voice, interest, and needs. Additionally, the program focuses on supporting young men to developing the skills needed to settle arguments, build lasting friendships, succeed academically, and restore mistakes made in the community, at school, the center, or at home.
Position Responsibilities:
- Provide direct support to youth, including creating a fun, caring, positive environment for youth, planning and leading enriching activities, supervising spaces to ensure safe, respectful behavior, and supporting youth with their social emotional growth.
- Lead teacher of a classroom/gym activity – responsible for planning and leading out daily enrichment activity in one of the classroom or gym spaces
- Support daily clean-up, including cleaning up, sanitizating, and shutting down building spaces at the end of every shift.
- Support during arrival and dismissal times of youth, which may include leading the walking train to pick up and drop off youth.
- Occasional support supervision of 1-2 weekly outings (field trip or in-house small group activity).
- Attend weekly staff meetings and supervision meetings.
Supervision
The SEQUOIA Program Mentor reports to the SEQUOIA Program Manager.
Schedule
This is a part-time, 20-24 hours per week, salaried position with the schedule during the summer being 12:30-4:30pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday 10am-4:30pm. Academic year being 2-6PM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and 10AM-6PM on Wednesday.
Start Date
Immediate Hire.
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to julia@treestreetyouth.org and oren@treestreetyouth.org. Selected candidates will receive an email to set up a phone/zoom or in-person interview.
All decisions are based on nondiscriminatory factors without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or status as a veteran. We promote a positive and healthy working environment with respect for diversity.