Diabetes Educator – Contractor

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🔥 12 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $55 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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New Yorkers For Children

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 1996

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

New Yorkers For Children is a New York City nonprofit that supports youth in and aging out of the foster care system. The organization partners with the NYC Administration for Children's Services to provide academic, professional, financial, and personal support—focused especially on older youth transitioning to independence—to improve educational and life outcomes. Since 1996 NYFC has distributed roughly $70 million, serves about 1,000 youth in direct services annually, offers post-secondary support and pioneering programs, and provides resources such as back-to-school packages, stipends, tutoring, advocacy, and technology to help scholars complete degrees and thrive as independent adults.

📋 Description

• Lead the Kyler Cares curriculum for students ages 10–15 across modules covering diabetes survival skills, daily life, identity, and power • Lead weekly virtual group sessions for up to 12 students, co-facilitating with ambassadors and subject-matter partners • Run hands-on activity sessions at in-person DMC events • Conduct end-of-session assessments and support asynchronous learning on Mighty Networks • Use Kyler Cares media, including the Sugar Hill High comic series, as teaching tools • Provide curriculum feedback to improve each cycle • Handle customized education requests for newly diagnosed families, students using pumps or CGMs, caregivers, and teens needing one-on-one support • Partner with the Social Work team and follow up on referrals • Support caregiver and teen groups when diabetes education is needed • Lead and co-present Lunch & Learns for NYC school nurses and staff • Serve as a resource on diabetes devices, new technology, and student support • Co-lead education sessions with SmartStart and device/pharma partners • Partner with nutrition and community organizations on culturally responsive food workshops • Build relationships with diabetes educators and social workers at clinical partners across New York City • Share resources with clinics and schools, develop referral pathways, and expand the clinical network • Document sessions, attendance, assessments, and one-to-one requests in the case management system • Teach within each child's care plan and route clinical matters appropriately without changing insulin doses or medical orders

🎯 Requirements

• Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), or licensed clinician (RN, RD, NP, or similar) with substantial diabetes education experience and a plan to sit for the CDCES • Cultural humility and fluency • Comfort leading groups virtually and in person • Experience educating kids, teens, and families living with Type 1 Diabetes • Moves fast, stays organized, and follows through • Working knowledge of current diabetes technology: CGMs, insulin pumps, and automated insulin delivery systems • Ability to complete NYC Public Schools background clearance and fingerprinting • Availability for weekday evening sessions and at least some Saturday events • Understanding of New York City neighborhoods and culture • Frequent keyboarding and ability to read/respond to electronic documents • Ability to occasionally reach with hands and arms and carry materials weighing up to 20 lbs.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote / virtual work with occasional in-person sessions and events • Opportunity to improve health outcomes for people of color living with diabetes • Co-leading sessions with nutrition, nursing, care-provider, device, pharma, and community partners • Collaboration with clinical partners and Stanford research partnership • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities