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This role is responsible for supporting our Summer Professional Development weeks by supporting students with engaging, educational, culturally relevant, and social-emotional learning activities in our MusiCore Rock to the Future Summer Program. In MusiCore Summer Program, youth in grades 6 - 12 attend exciting music classes like guitar, bass, drums, piano, choral ensemble, music production, and more, plus receive individualized educational, social emotional support and professional development. During professional development weeks, students will hear from guest speakers, as well as participating in community building activities, and work on creative and musical projects. This role will work closely with the Education Coordinator.

The Doing Good Teaching Mentor guides and leads students at each stage of the Doing Good program. The teaching Mentor ensures all students meet attendance and program requirements including the implementation and completion of their group’s service-learning project. You will work as part of a team that includes co-teachers and the Manager of Programs and Student engagement on preparing and executing program content and lesson plans. A minimum of two professional development workshops will be required each school year. (Teaching Mentors are compensated for professional development activities). Project 440’s highest priorities are to provide a welcoming, engaging, challenging, and fulfilling learning experience for all of our students.

Doing Good is an intensive twelve-week afterschool program that teaches leadership and service and fosters an entrepreneurial mindset. Students develop communication and collaboration skills and learn budgeting, event planning, project management and more. In the second six weeks of the program, participants work in teams to apply these skills to create and implement a final arts-focused service-learning project.

Each team receives funding of up to $500 to implement their project. After the projects have been completed, each group gives a project presentation at the Doing Good graduation attended by family, friends, and community members. Each student receives a stipend of up to $825 at the conclusion of the program.

The Artist Services Manager plays a key role in developing and maintaining productive work relationships with the YA roster of teaching artists (independent contractors) who represent diverse artistic disciplines and offer performances, hands-on workshops and residencies for PreK-12 Students, and professional development for teachers.

The Artist Services Manager has knowledge of arts education—both how the arts are currently integrated in schools and how teaching artists complement school programming, affirm and support student identity and creativity, and contribute to a welcoming school community. Candidate must have an abiding belief and passionate commitment to the value and need for arts education in all children’s lives.  The ideal candidate is curious and interested in all art forms and maintains a personal connection to the arts in their everyday life. 

Collaboration is essential to the success of this role, working with staff/peers and teaching artists to achieve organizational goals.  Learning opportunities may present themselves in on-the-job experiences, such as workshop or conference attendance. Engagement in YA’s Arts United (DEIA) efforts is essential and integrated into all staff roles.