Your service will focus on helping students get and/or remain on track to graduate by providing academic support, delivering behavior and attendance coaching and encouraging student engagement to promote a positive school climate.

Beginning each day before the first school bell rings and staying until the last child leaves the after-school program; you’ll serve students, schools and communities through:

Academic Support:

• Planning tutoring sessions and providing one-on-one or small group literacy and/or math tutoring before, during and after school;

• Partnering with teachers and school staff to create and facilitate academic events and learning activities;

• Regularly document students’ academic progress

Attendance and Positive Behavior Encouragement:

• Leading energetic morning greetings

• Making attendance and positive phone calls to home

• Facilitating small group and one-to-one social-emotional skills development programs

Community and School Improvements:

• Organizing and leading activities, celebrations and projects to improve the community and school environment.

*Team-based service is at the heart of City Year. You will be assigned to a diverse team of 8-15 young adults and you will serve with that team for the duration of the year.

City Year AmeriCorps members are as diverse a group as the communities they serve. We’re looking for you if you want to give back and are ready to change the world. Applicants must:

• Be between the ages of 18 and 25

• Be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident; Authorization to work in the U.S. is not sufficient. Those with DACA status unfortunately are not eligible at this time.

• Have a high school diploma, GED, some college, or a college degree

• Have served no more than three terms in an AmeriCorps state or national program

• Agree to and pass a criminal background check

Because City Year AmeriCorps members work closely with children, we are required to conduct a thorough criminal background check before your service can begin which includes an FBI fingerprint search. Individuals who have been convicted of murder or who are registered on a sex offender registry are not eligible for an AmeriCorps position. Please note that, other than in these two circumstances, a criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant. Each case is reviewed individually.

• Loan forbearance on qualifying student loans

• Eligibility for exclusive scholarships to over 100 colleges and universities

• Networking sessions and professional development

• Leadership development training

• Uniform provided by ARAMARK

City Year was founded in 1988 on the belief that young people can change the world. City Year is an education focused, nonprofit organization that unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service aimed at keeping students in school and on track to graduation. At City Year’s 28 urban locations across the United States and two international affiliates, teams of trained young people called AmeriCorps members serve full-time in schools during the academic year as tutors, mentors and role models. By focusing on attendance, behavior and course performance, which identify students who are at risk of not graduating on time, AmeriCorps members are uniquely positioned to help students and schools succeed.