Summer Social Worker

WHO ARE WE…

Sadie Nash Leadership Project provides award-winning experiential social justice education to more than 500 young women and gender-expansive youth of color in New York City and Newark each year. Operating with love and rigor, we use the tools of popular education to build critical consciousness, community, and college readiness. We strengthen, empower, and equip our participants to lead lives in committed pursuit of joy and liberation for self and community.

Our award-winning flagship program, Summer Institute (SI), is an immersive 6-week program for high school students, where participants (lovingly called Nashers) explore themes related to leadership, feminism, and social justice. Through classes, workshops, field trips, and intimate conversations with community leaders, we introduce concepts of power, identity, and privilege so that our Nashers can articulate and critically analyze their personal experiences within a broader political context and through project based learning.

SI operates at four in-person sites: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Newark, NJ.

POSITION OVERVIEW-

Sadie Nash Leadership Project (SNLP) seeks an experienced, dynamic, and compassionate Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) to provide wellness programming and counseling support to staff and participants in our Summer Institute program. This unique opportunity will allow the social worker to: 1) work closely with high school students in building socio-emotional skills, providing timely interventions, and integrating educational programming and social work services; 2) support the learning and overall well-being of college students and youth workers who are leading programming for high school students; 3) serve as a thought partner for SNLP site supervisors in the design and implementation of support structures for all Summer Institute staff and participants.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

The social worker will be responsible for:

• Psychoeducation and Group FacilitationDevelop and facilitate trainings and workshops for staff members and leading weekly wellness activities for students on topics including but not limited to: psychoeducation, emotional and social intelligence development, somatic practices, life course development
• Emotional and Crisis CounselingWill hold one-on-one counseling sessions, both virtually and in-person for staff and youth. Additionally, the social worker will support our team with crisis assessments, and provide weekly reports to our summer staff of crisis interventions.
• Supervision and Resource CultivationWill supervise a social work intern for at least 1 hour/week and work together to curate and share wellness resources to the community

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee. Priorities may shift over time.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

To be successful in this position, you will need to meet the following:

• MUST be an LCSW with at least 2 years of experience working with youth
• MUST be available to work 5- 10 hours per week, remote and in-person at each location (NYC and NJ), during Summer Institute training from June 30 - July 2 and the full length of the program from July 7 until August 15, 2025
• Experience designing and facilitating interactive workshops for diverse groups
• Background in radical social work, healing justice, and/or trauma-informed practices
• Commitment to and grounding in intersectional feminism, racial and gender equity, LGBTQ rights, as well as a desire to work in an organization whose mission and culture is rooted in accountable, cooperative, ethical, and effective leadership
• Ability to create a brave space and build community in online environments and in-person classrooms, especially for our stakeholders- young women and gender-expansive youth of color from New York City and Newark, NJ, families, community partners, and staff
• Familiarity and experience with SNLP programming is a plus!

REQUIRED SCHEDULE (View the full schedule via the Job Description)

This is meant as a general overview of the needs for this role. This may change based on needs coming up for the program.

• Weekly on Tuesdays- commute to 1 of 4 Summer Location- (2:30pm-4:30pm)
  • WEEK 1- BROOKLYN
  • WEEK 2- QUEENS
  • WEEK 3- MANHATTAN
  • WEEK 4- NEWARK
  • WEEK 5- BROOKLYN
  • WEEK 6- MANHATTAN
• Weekly on Thursdays- commute to an SNLP Office- (11-1pm or 4-6pm)
  • WEEK 1- NYC
  • WEEK 2- NYC
  • WEEK 3- NYC
  • WEEK 4- NEWARK
  • WEEK 5- NYC
  • WEEK 6- NYC
• Asynchronous work during the hours of 9am-5pm:
  • Weekly on Fridays- One-On-One Sessions (10am-2pm)
  • Administrative Work
    • WEEK 1-4: (2-4 hours)
    • WEEK 4-6: (1-3 hours)
  • Supervision Check-in with Assistant Director of Programs (Remote) 1 hr
  • Supervision Check-in with MSW Intern (Remote) 1 hr