Overview

Arts After-School Off Site Teaching Artist 

The Teaching Artist will work as part of the Sitar Arts Center Community, at one of Sitar’s offsite after-school programs for middle school students. These middle school programs are designed to bring the Sitar Arts Center community to other parts of the city to provide more access to the arts. The Teaching Artist will work within a small teaching team of professional arts teachers who teach in a specific arts medium, while also incorporating a literacy component. In addition, the teaching team will work with the Site Coordinator, to develop a well-rounded body of workshops, field trips, guest speakers, and additional program elements as described by the Sitar Arts After-school program over the course of the year.


Job Responsibilities

  • Create and implement curriculum in your specific art form, as well as a creative writing element, for 3-4 days of classroom instruction each week
  • Work with the teaching team to plan and implement community activities and field trips
  • Coordinate with team for end of session student performances and exhibitions
  • Act as a member of the team, stepping in wherever needed, especially during community activities
  • Build rapport with students to develop trust and appreciation of the arts
  • Plan and order supplies as needed for your classes and maintain your supplies in designated location
  • Attend weekly meetings with team to design and create community programming


Position Reports to:
Site Coordinator and the Director of Program Operations


Qualifications and Experience

  • 3 years’+ of Arts Teaching experience (Dance or Theater)
  • 2 years’ of experience teaching youth ages 10 – 14
  • Experience working with at-risk youth


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Experience in program planning
  • Experience in aftercare/school settings


Specifics of the Position

Hours for this position are Tuesday – Friday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Additional hours are required for meetings, field trips, special events, and professional development. Salary is $22-24/hr commensurate with experience.

Background check and TB test are required for employment.  This position is a temporary contract position that will begin at the end of August and end in June 2020.

How to Apply

Please visit https://sitarartscenter.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=45&source=danceteacherfinder.com

Please include:

  • Cover letter
  • Resume
  • Three References (names, titles, emails, and phone numbers)
  • Visual Artists – Portfolio of professional work
  • Performing artists – Must be able to demonstrate experience
  • Portfolio of work created by students from classes taught
  • Biography
    (Portfolios must be digital jpeg format, including links to video clips)

No phone calls please

All applicants will be contacted, if they are invited to be interviewed for the position. The hiring process can take 4-6 weeks after posting. Candidates will be considered if the position is still vacant.

We appreciate your interest in Sitar Arts Center.

For more information about Sitar Arts Center, please visit: www.sitarartscenter.org

 

About Sitar Arts Center

Sitar’s Mission

Our mission is to offer possibilities that transform the lives of children and teens born into a world of unequal access to opportunity. We engage children and teens in the highest quality visual, performing and digital arts. We teach the arts so that our students learn about themselves and gain critical life skills. We create community for students and their families. And we are an untiring voice on their behalf.

Organization Summary

Sitar Arts Center is a creative youth development organization providing transformational arts experiences and high quality arts education while offering a nurturing community to families with low income from all parts of the city. Sitar offers families a continuum of arts educational programming from birth to young adulthood. Sitar helps vulnerable, financially disadvantaged children and teens develop critical life skills to thrive in the 21st century through three program pillars: a student engagement model, high quality arts experiences, and civic engagement.

Sitar Arts Center is building an inclusive Sitar Community with 80 percent of Sitar students coming from low-income families and 20 percent from higher income families. Sitar’s approach ensures life-changing relationships are built across economic, racial and cultural spectrum, leading inevitably to stronger communities and a strong, inclusive city.

Sitar Arts Center is committed to helping the families we serve to thrive in their rapidly gentrifying DC neighborhoods, focusing especially but not exclusively on Wards 1, 4 and 5 which are geographically closest to the Center. As part of the movement for social justice, Sitar seeks to narrow the opportunity gap to help financially disadvantaged children have the best possible chance for success in life. Sitar is lifting up our advocacy voice to make sure this city offers equitable access to youth development and arts education opportunities as essential to strong communities and strong families.

Sitar’s Values

Sitar’s staff and volunteers are guided by the following values.

Student Centered – We place the children, youth and their families at the center of our decision-making and actions; we strive for a holistic approach to creative youth development and believe in the potential of every child.

Excellence – We strive for excellence and impact in our work, and in providing arts education opportunities. We create a team environment that supports the best work possible, individually and collectively. We hold our students to high expectations and tenaciously support them in achieving their potential.

Community and Belonging – We intentionally create a culturally competent community in which every member has a sense of deep belonging and shares the essence of Sitar’s mission. We rely on and are grateful for every member’s contribution and believe that our sum is greater than our parts.

Partnership – We deeply value and highly prioritize our relationships with our faculty, artistic, philanthropic and community partners, and recognize these partnerships as the root of Sitar’s mission and programs.

Sitar Spirit – Sitar’s essence is upheld through intentional gratitude, reflection and celebration. We care for one another so we can care for our community. We are a learning organization, ready to evolve as needed by our students and families while maintaining the integrity of our essence.