Bilingual Community Support Partner
- Start Date
- August 18, 2025
- Position Type
- Part-time
- Positions Available
- 1
Map Academy’s faculty and staff are open-minded, forward-thinking, collaborative lifelong learners who thrive in a fast-paced, iterative atmosphere.
Do you have:
- The ability to inspire, motivate, and build relationships with a wide variety of students, families, community members, and peers?
- Persistence, zeal, humor, and an entrepreneurial spirit that will make you an important part of a mission-driven high school?
- The belief that every student can succeed, along with the drive and patience to provide relentless support to help students overcome barriers and forge pathways to success?
- A commitment to contributing meaningfully to an inclusive and diverse school community?
- The confidence to be a role model and the humility to understand the weight of that responsibility?
- The creative energy and drive to wear multiple hats as part of a small staff?
Do you:
- Take initiative, go above and beyond expectations to achieve exceptional outcomes and results?
- Exhibit calmness under pressure and resilience in overcoming setbacks?
- Thrive in a fast-paced, iterative atmosphere in which failures are opportunities to learn and grow?
- Exhibit a strong work ethic, flexibility and enthusiasm?
Job Requirements
Map Academy Community Support Partners will:
- Build positive mentoring relationships with students to build motivation and engagement, supporting students as they work toward their goals.
- Provide support to students and families as they acclimate to the Map Academy community.
- Provide support for students in engaging with collaterals and community partners.
- Assist teachers/social workers with attendance outreach, wraparound supports and other tasks throughout the day.
- Coordinate with teachers and leadership to monitor student progress and update families.
- Attend school-wide events, including family nights and evening celebrations, and support faculty and staff with organizing activities, and other duties.
- Participate in regular meetings and planning sessions related to using data to personalize and improve engagement and progress.
- Participate in summer and school year professional development sessions.
Visit our website–www.themapacademy.org– for more information about the Map Academy model, support we have received, and our vision for the future.
Qualifications
- Bilingual English & Portuguese required.
- Associates or Bachelor’s Degree preferred, but not required. All majors welcome. Demonstrated youth development experience is ideal.
- Massachusetts Driver’s License required.
- Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships with students, families and colleagues.
- Sense of humor and relentless optimism to bring joy to challenging work.
- Positive worldview and desire to cultivate success in students who have disengaged from or dropped out of other educational environments.
- An innovative spirit, growth mindset and the confidence to embrace work at a mission-driven organization.
- An open mind that embraces learning and collaboration and willingness to absorb feedback in order to continually improve.
- Ability to inspire, motivate, and build relationships with a wide variety of students, families, community members, and peers.
- Persistence, zeal, humor, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
- The belief that every student can succeed, along with the drive and patience to provide relentless support to help students overcome barriers and forge pathways to success.
- The confidence to be a role model and the humility to understand the weight of that responsibility.
- Ability to take initiative, go above and beyond expectations to achieve exceptional outcomes and results.
- Exhibit calmness under pressure, and resilience in overcoming setbacks.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, iterative atmosphere in which failures are opportunities to learn and grow.
- Must be willing to comply with a fingerprint-supported criminal background check.
- Part time position but may become full-time for the right candidate.
- Afternoon & early evening hours; schedule flexible for the right candidate.
- Competitive benefits package. Salary negotiable based on experience & qualifications.