# Elementary School Wellness & Movement Coach

**Company**: Success Academy Charter Schools
**Location**: New York
**Salary**: $65,000-$65,000 USD
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a creative and results-driven Wellness & Movement Coach who excels at transforming small spaces into high-energy hubs of physical development.

In this role, you will adapt traditional athletic concepts for a classroom setting, ensuring scholars remain active, challenged, and engaged regardless of the square footage.

Responsibilities:

- Innovate in Small Spaces: Adapt and deliver physical activity sessions, including yoga, calisthenics, and flexibility training, tailored specifically for classroom environments and limited-space settings.

- Drive Excellence: Be part of a highly motivated team committed to education reform and the building of exemplary schools.

- Collaborate: With coaches across the network to develop a world-class wellness program that prioritizes scholar health and kinesthetic awareness.

- Inspire: Cultivate a love for movement and healthy living, encouraging critical thinking through instruction that connects physical discipline to academic focus.

- Lead: Coordinate and lead family meetings to promote wellness habits at home.

- Grow: Receive routine, ongoing feedback and professional development from an outstanding leadership team.

Requirements:

- Experience coaching youth in specialized movement disciplines (e.g., yoga, dance, martial arts, strength and conditioning, SAQ, or gymnastics).

- Spatial creativity to lead engaging, safe, and high-intensity activities within a classroom or small-room footprint.

- Ability to develop and teach concepts such as mindfulness, body mechanics, healthy lifestyles, and perseverance.

- Demonstrated track record of propelling students' understanding of physical fitness and self-regulation.

- Advanced understanding of one or more of the following: Yoga & Mindfulness, Static Strength & Isometric Training, Mobility & Stretching Protocols, Low-Impact Aerobics.

- Experience working with K-4 grades in a school setting (a plus).

- Highly organized and able to manage both administrative tasks and active coaching with excellence.

- Drive to ensure that joyful, rigorous instruction is delivered to every scholar, every day.

Compensation Range: $65,000-$65,000 USD

Benefits: Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

## Skills

### Required
- yoga
- calisthenics
- flexibility training
- mindfulness
- body mechanics
- healthy lifestyles
- perseverance

### Nice to have
- experience working with K-4 grades in a school setting

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