AmeriCorps is hiring: CTEP at Listen Up! Youth Radio in Saint Paul

Overview

Join to apply for the CTEP at Listen Up! Youth Radio role at AmeriCorps.

Listen Up Youth Radio began in January 2018 and went public with our first program that June via a weekly, youth-hosted radio program. Today, Listen Up is a worker self-directed nonprofit with an embedded youth media entrepreneurship cooperative. Our board includes Youth Media Collective members and alumni and adult volunteers. Our program strategies are: 1) youth employment, 2) training and education in media production, journalism & media literacy, and 3) civic engagement and leadership development. We run: 1) 8 monthly youth-produced radio shows (4-5pm, Mondays/Thursdays on WFNU + Fridays on KRSM) 2) a year round Youth Media Collective (employment and entrepreneurship cooperative program), 3) a Summer Media Institute (peer-to-peer training program), 4) Youth Forums (aired on 5th monthly Mondays/Fridays), and 5) media education and media production services for schools, companies, libraries, and community organizations.

Member Duties

• Co-facilitate after-school and summertime programming with Listen Up youth leaders for high schoolers on radio broadcasting, audio and multimedia storytelling, journalism, media literacy, media justice, career readiness, group dialogue/facilitation, and worker cooperative literacy.
• Support youth to lead media workshops for schools and local youth organizations and co-facilitate these at times.
• Integrate technology education, financial literacy, and career readiness training into programming, with an emphasis on media entrepreneurship and worker cooperative models.

Program Benefits

• Education award upon successful completion of service
• Health Coverage
• Childcare assistance if eligible
• Living Allowance

Terms

• Permits attendance at school during off hours
• Permits working at another job during off hours

Service Areas

• Technology
• Community and Economic Development

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Youth Development
• Computers/Technology
• Team Work
• Teaching/Tutoring
• Leadership
• Writing/Editing
• General Skills
• Community Organization
• Recruitment

Summary

Program Type: AmeriCorps State / National

Program: CTEP at Listen Up! Youth Radio

Program Start/End Date: 10/01/2025 - 09/30/2026

Work Schedule: Part Time

Education level: High school diploma/GED

Age Requirement: Minimum: 17 Maximum: 99

Program Locations: MINNESOTA

Accepting Applications: From 03/01/2025 To 09/01/2025

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