JOB: Living Arts (Detroit) hiring Arts-Infused Education specialist

LIVING ARTS is hiring an ARTS-INFUSED EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER

Qualifications: college degree or commensurate experience; understands arts-infused education and able to facilitate arts-infused residencies at partner schools; good people skills, able to effectively manage projects and personnel; excellent communicator; professional, with good boundaries, yet adaptable to unexpected changes and challenges

Job Description:

1) Organize artist trainings, teacher trainings, and artist/teacher curriculum development meetings, as well as scheduling arts-infused student sessions.

2) Organize special events like field trips and end-of-year sharing events.

3) Check in with participating classroom teachers regularly.

4) Stay on top of school schedules and troubleshoot scheduling issues

4) Keep principals and in-school coordinators and Living Arts Director of Programs informed about project happenings

5) Check in with teaching artists regularly, observing each teaching artist at least once.

6) Make sure artists submit annual clearances, lesson plans, pre/post assessments, and invoices by established deadlines.

7) Manage evaluation process and collect data.

8) Advocate for El Arte program/Living Arts’ work. Clearly communicate goals and outcomes of the project: academic achievement, artistic learning.

Please e-mail a resume with references by August 3, 2011 to Cara Graninger, Living Arts' Co-Executive Director/Programs at cara@livingartsdetroit.org. In your e-mail, please summarize any additional relevant information.

Start date:

August 29, 2011

Application deadline:

August 3, 2011

Salary range:

$20,000 - $25,000

Salary details:

40 weeks full-time/8 weeks half-time in the summer/4 weeks off

Job focus:

Arts Education Management

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Cara Graninger

Co-Executive Director/Program and Partnerships

Living Arts
8701 W. Vernor Hwy, Suite 202
Detroit, Mi 48209
tel: 313.841.4765

fax:313.557.0154

www.livingartsdetroit.org