Boston, Massachusetts, United States · On-site
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Skills: Creative Writing, Leadership, Community Engagement, Collaboration, Editing
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YLAB members collaborate to create and publish an original student publication while strengthening their writing skills. They also partner with the Boston Athenaeum to plan and facilitate innovative literacy events for teens.
Applicants must be Boston residents between 14-19 years old and currently enrolled in high school. Candidates should demonstrate a passion for writing, youth leadership, and a willingness to collaborate.
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About the Opportunity:
826 Boston is looking for new YLAB Members!
The Youth Literary Advisory Board (YLAB) is a paid youth leadership, writing, and community engagement program for students in grades 9–12. YLAB members will meet two times a week and will work together over the course of the year to create and publish an original publication of their own design. Through workshops, peer feedback, and mentorship, YLAB members will strengthen a wide range of writing skills, from poetry and creative nonfiction to fiction and prose. YLAB members will also play an active role in planning and facilitating innovative events and workshops in partnership with the Boston Athenaeum. Through field trips, guest speakers, public-facing events, and hands-on leadership experiences, YLAB members will build community, amplify youth voices, and explore the many ways writing can create change.
Apply online at: https://826boston.bamboohr.com/careers/128
Mission: 826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life.
Responsibilities:
YLAB Program Activities and Responsibilities
Optional Opportunities YLAB Members Can Join Outside of Scheduled Meetings:
Qualifications:
826 Boston recognizes that impostor syndrome and the confidence gap might prevent some applicants from applying. Few candidates will have all of the relevant experience listed below, but 826 Boston is committed to assessing candidates with transferable skills and a willingness to be trained for this role.
The ideal YLAB candidates hold an enthusiastic belief in the mission of 826 Boston as evidenced by their personal passion for writing and youth leadership. They are deeply collaborative, creative thinkers, willing to try new things, and lead the way in creating and engaging in genuine opportunities for student leadership and community advocacy at 826 Boston. Bilingual and multilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.
Additionally, YLAB candidates must be:
Compensation: $15.45 per hour. Each YLAB Member will also receive a one year membership to the Boston Athenaeum.
This is a non-exempt, part-time, temporary position that reports to the YLAB Teaching Artist. The start date for this position is September 29, 2026. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until all the spots are filled. It is in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.
826 Boston Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement
At 826 Boston, we honor and actively work toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across our organization. We are committed to centering the voices of the students who we serve, to creating inclusive spaces, and to incorporating feedback from our community into our decision-making processes. Our DEI lens is always evolving through the courageous conversations in which we participate and the relationships that we build through our work and service. We strengthen our cultural competency through experience, training, and feedback, which informs the development of all new organizational practices and goals and the evaluation of all existing procedures.
826 Boston is dedicated to providing a platform for student advocacy through writing and publishing opportunities. In our work and mission, we are committed to dismantling white supremacy culture by recognizing that we are complicit in systems of racism and oppression.
We will work to hold ourselves accountable in addressing these harmful structures and behaviors.
About Us
826 Boston is part of a national network of youth writing centers, co-founded by the award-winning author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari, that were named in GOOD Magazine’s “30 Places We Want to Work.” Since opening in 2007, 826 Boston has delivered its free youth writing and tutoring programs to more than 29,000 students and has been recognized by The Boston Globe as one of the best places in the city to volunteer. 826 Boston’s youth writers have published their work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and in numerous award-winning 826 Boston books, including A Place for Me in the World, which was hailed as a “triumph of middle school education” by The Boston Globe. In 2014, the 826 network garnered the American Literacy Prize from the Library of Congress for its pioneering work to eradicate illiteracy in the United States.
Accommodations
826 Boston provides reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities at every stage of the application process. Disclosing a disability or requesting a need for accommodations is a separate process from admissions and will have absolutely no bearing on a candidate’s application status. 826 Boston will make every effort to meet your request, but specific requests are not guaranteed. If you need to request an accommodation, please contact Catherine Gomez at [email protected].
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization for students in grades K-12 and beyond.
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this understanding in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of our free programs seek to strengthen each student's power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.
Offices: 3035 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA 02119, US
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization for students in grades K-12 and beyond.
826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this understanding in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. All of our free programs seek to strengthen each student's power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.
Offices: 3035 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA 02119, US
