Color Farm Impact · Now Hiring · Brooklyn, NY · 2026–2027 School Year
Program Coordinator
The Maxine Shaw Effect Leadership Curriculum at Meyer Levin Middle School
Color Farm Impact is hiring a part-time Program Coordinator to run the day-to-day operations of a year-long leadership and media literacy program for 7th and 8th graders in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. This is an independent contractor engagement, not a staff position. You are the person who makes the program work. The educator teaches. You make sure everything around the teaching is handled — so that every session starts on time, every student is accounted for, and every promise we made to this school gets kept.
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Color Farm Impact, Inc.
A nonprofit building leadership and media literacy programs for young people. Your day-to-day contact is Ben Arnon, Co-Founder.
Engagement type
Independent Contractor
A 1099 contract role, not employment. You invoice; Color Farm Impact pays.
Location
Meyer Levin Middle School
5909 Beverley Road, Brooklyn, NY 11203. On site two mornings a week; the rest of the work is remote.
Time commitment
About 10 hrs / week
About 3 of those on site; the rest flexible and remote.
On-site schedule
Two mornings a week
During the school's morning enrichment block, which runs Monday–Thursday. Which two days, and the exact start time, are confirmed with the school before you start.
Contract term
October 2026 – May 2027
Through program close-out and final data delivery. Follows the NYC public school calendar. Possible renewal for the following school year.
About the program
The Maxine Shaw Effect Leadership Curriculum teaches leadership, problem solving, discernment and judgment, identity, media literacy and career awareness — using the character Maxine Shaw from the television series Living Single as the way in.
The classroom becomes a courtroom. Students take real roles — attorney, witness, juror, judge — and try cases where the facts are messy and the side with the best evidence wins. What they are actually building are the durable human skills that get more valuable as AI takes over the routine work: how to make a case, read a room, tell a real source from one that only sounds official, and stand behind a call.
After a successful pilot at Meyer Levin last spring, the program is growing to a full school year for 2026–27, delivered in partnership with Langston League, the curriculum designer and educator trainer.
25–30 students
One mixed cohort of 7th and 8th graders, including some returning pilot students.
24 core lessons
45-minute sessions, two mornings a week, during the morning enrichment block — the same cohort every session.
Late October through the spring
Runs continuously across the school year, pausing only for school breaks.
A certified educator
A Meyer Levin teacher, trained and certified by Langston League to teach the program.
Measured all year
Pre, interim and post assessments plus a student survey, tracked from the first week to the last.
A culminating event
A community mock trial in the spring, with friends and families invited to observe.
See it for yourself
This is the pilot's culminating session at Meyer Levin — the community mock trial on June 12, 2026. Ten students carried every role in the room: attorneys, witnesses, jurors, court observers.
Why this school, and why now
The school watched exactly what the program costs in time and attention, and then asked for triple the students and a whole school year of it.
That is the job you would be stepping into: not proving the idea works, but making sure a program this school already believes in actually gets delivered, week after week, for a full year.
Your week
About 3 hours on site. Roughly 90 minutes on each of two mornings a week — setup, the 45-minute session, and wrap-up. You are in the room for every session.
The remaining seven or so hours are flexible and can be done remotely. Consent follow-up, data entry, scheduling, family communication, and event planning. The load rises during assessment windows and in the weeks before the culminating event, and drops in quiet stretches — roughly ten hours a week is the average across the year, not a timesheet. The role follows the NYC public school calendar, so there are no hours during school breaks.
One thing to know before you apply. This is a fixed, in-person morning commitment inside a public school. If you cannot reliably be at 5909 Beverley Road two mornings a week from late October through the spring, this is not the right role — and we would rather you know that now than in January.
What you'll do
1 · Program operations
- Be on site for every session. Set up the room, the tech and the materials before the educator and students arrive.
- Make the media work. Confirm the Living Single clips play on school devices and the school network, and solve access problems before class, not during it.
- Own the program calendar. Keep it current around holidays, breaks, testing weeks and school events, and give everyone advance warning when a session is at risk.
- Track attendance daily and keep the student roster accurate.
- Print, organize and restock student materials so the educator never has to think about supply.
2 · Assessments and data
- Run the consent process. Send, collect and track parent consent forms — and make sure no student takes part in data collection without consent on file. This one is absolute.
- Coordinate the pre, interim and post assessments and the student survey. Schedule the windows, arrange devices or paper copies, and keep the educator's teaching time protected.
- Drive completion to at least 80% of the cohort in every window. Chase absences, reschedule, and escalate early when a window is at risk. This is a target we are held to, and it is yours to hit.
- De-identify and deliver the data. Collect and organize it, strip student names and identifying details, and get it to the evaluation team on time.
- Update Color Farm's monthly program dashboard so we always know where the program stands without having to ask.
3 · Communication and coordination
- Be the day-to-day contact between Color Farm Impact, the school's point person, and Langston League's project lead.
- Schedule observations and visits — classroom observations, partner visits, and the observations required for educator certification — and make sure every visitor follows the school's check-in rules.
- Communicate with families. Send letters and program updates, including translated versions where families need them.
- Plan the culminating event end to end: space, date, guest approvals, family invitations and day-of setup.
- Flag problems early — attendance dropping, sessions missed, tech failing — and log how each one was resolved.
4 · And everything else the program needs
A list like this never covers everything. Some of the most important work of this role is not written above — it becomes obvious once the program is running, and it needs doing anyway. We expect you to see those things and handle them, or raise them fast if they sit above your line. “That wasn't in the job description” is not an answer that works here.
The standard we hold
This is a results role. Showing up is the floor, not the job.
We are delivering a program we believe makes a real difference in young people's lives — and that belief sets the bar. We are not looking for someone to work the hours and go home. We are looking for someone who takes ownership of whether this program is excellent.
That means noticing what is about to go wrong and fixing it before it does. Chasing the last five consent forms. Making the culminating event the thing these students remember years from now. Caring whether a session landed, not just whether it happened.
We hold a high standard, and there is no room here for someone who is not striving for excellence. If that sounds like pressure, it is the good kind: you will be trusted with real responsibility, your judgment will matter, and the work will be visible.
Who you'll work with
| Partner | Their role | How you work with them |
|---|---|---|
| Color Farm Impact | Program owner, and the entity you contract with | Weekly updates, the monthly program dashboard, and raising issues before they become problems |
| Meyer Levin Middle School | Host site — principal, school point person, and the program educator | Day-to-day scheduling, consent, attendance, space and family communication |
| Langston League | Curriculum designer and educator trainer | Logistics requests go through their project lead; you coordinate observation and assessment dates |
What this role is not
Clarity here protects everyone. This role does not include teaching or co-teaching lessons, writing or changing curriculum, evaluating the educator, or analyzing program data. The educator teaches. Langston League owns the curriculum and the training. The evaluation team handles the analysis.
Your lane is everything that makes those three things possible — and inside that lane, you have real authority to act.
Your first month
- 1Get clearedNYC DOE background clearance and fingerprinting, if you are not already cleared. We start this the week you accept — it is the one step that can move your start date.
- 2Meet the peopleThe school's point person, the certified educator who will teach the program, and Langston League's project lead.
- 3Stand up the consent processForms out to families and tracked, so every student is cleared for data collection before the first lesson in late October.
- 4Set the year upBuild the program calendar around the school's breaks and testing weeks, and schedule the first assessment window.
What we're looking for
- At least 2 years coordinating school-based or youth programs, preferably with middle school students
- Experience working inside NYC public schools — visitor procedures, consent forms, school calendars
- Strong organization, with a track record of holding schedules, rosters and deadlines across several stakeholders at once
- Comfort with spreadsheets and basic data entry (Google Sheets or Excel)
- Clear, warm communication with principals, teachers, students and families
- Understanding of student privacy and how to handle confidential student information
- Available on site during the weekday morning enrichment block, two mornings a week
- Able to pass NYC public school background clearance and fingerprinting
- Already cleared and fingerprinted through the NYC DOE — this can meaningfully shorten your start date
- Background in culturally responsive or culturally sustaining education, media literacy, or social-emotional learning
- Experience administering student surveys or assessments
- Experience planning student events — showcases, mock trials, family nights
- Speaks a second language common among the school's families
- Lives in or near Brooklyn
Compensation and engagement terms
Competitive and commensurate with experience. This engagement is priced as a flat contract fee for the school year, invoiced on an agreed schedule — we do not pay by the hour. We will discuss the fee, the invoicing schedule and travel reimbursement with candidates who reach the final round.
This is an independent contractor engagement. You would contract with Color Farm Impact, Inc. as a 1099 contractor, not as a W-2 employee. You are responsible for your own taxes, and the engagement does not include employee benefits. You keep control over how and where you do the flexible, off-site portion of the work; the on-site sessions are fixed because the school's schedule is fixed.
Send us a résumé and one short story.
Tell us about a school program you helped run — what your job was, and one thing that would have gone wrong without you. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and we start conversations as strong ones arrive.
Target start: early October 2026 — early enough to get consent forms, clearances and assessment setup done before the first lesson in late October.
Prefer email? Send your résumé and that same short note to ben@colorfarmmedia.com with “MSE Program Coordinator – Meyer Levin” in the subject line.
Color Farm Impact × Langston LeagueColor Farm Impact is an equal opportunity organization. We welcome applicants of every background.