Careers at Riverside

Riverside Immigrant Services & Empowerment (Riverside) is an immigrant integration center that supports the economic mobility and social inclusion of newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in New York City. Our mission is to help new immigrants successfully integrate into life in the U.S. by providing free, full-time, immersive English language instruction, wrap-around case management and counseling, and incorporating workforce development skills, digital literacy, and civics into daily instruction. These supports and skills ensure that Riverside participants are better positioned to access job training, employment, and higher education and become active community members. 

Riverside offers workforce development for ESL individuals interested in beginning or advancing their careers. The Instructor will also support the non-academic needs of participants by referring them to Riverside’s Case Managers/Counselors.

• Design and facilitate engaging student-centered, contextualized ESL instruction focused on workplace communication, including industry-relevant vocabulary, pronunciation, and authentic conversational skills necessary for on-the-job success.

• Provide embedded language support within workforce training settings, adapting ESL instruction in real time to address emerging language, academic, and communication needs.

• Provide instructional and employment-focused coaching, guiding participants workplace communication practice, career goal-setting, and professional development to build confidence and achieve employment/internship outcomes.

• Assist participants in developing employment readiness tools, including resumes, interview preparation, and LinkedIn profiles. 

• Maintain student attendance, progress, goals, and outcomes in accordance with program requirements.

• Create and share relevant instructional materials, resources and information to support Riverside participants’ language development, employment/internship goals and community integration.

• Maintain participant notes by documenting the goals and outcomes of participants’ workforce readiness milestones.

• Collaborate closely with Riverside’s case managers, ESOL instructors, workforce development staff, and program leadership to support participant success.

• Participate in curriculum development, program evaluation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Workforce Development training is offered in five-week cycles. The minimum will be 5 teaching hours and 4 hours of curriculum development, office hours, and coordination weekly. 

• Instructors are compensated the hourly rate up to 12 hours each week. This includes teaching hours, case management/advising student meetings, curriculum development, and collaboration meetings with other ESOL instructors to share best practices for contextualization.

• Classes will be in-person at Riverside’s location:
  520 8th Ave, 20th Floor
  New York, NY 10018
  (Between 36th and 37th Streets)

• Prior experience teaching adult ESOL, both in person and online, such as on Zoom, required.

• Bachelor's degree required; ESOL teaching certification preferred.

• Experience in curriculum development preferred.

• Experience preparing students for career pathways preferred.

• Creative, organized, and committed to learner-centered, participatory education. 

• Experience with immigrant and underrepresented communities preferred. 

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse constituencies.