DESCRIPTION

Summary: Activity Specialist responsible for helping participants grow artistically.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing, teaching & maintaining scheduled Activities.
• Responsible for helping participants develop in arts and crafts.
• Organizing Arts and Crafts exhibitions.
• Engage participants in the arts to help build skills that would help them express themselves.
• Develop and maintain arts, theater, music, dance and poetry, jewelry making, and paper mâché.
• Organize and create art exhibitions, dance routines, theater presentations, music recitals, and poetry jams.
• Assist with the recruitment and retention of participants.
• Maintain site bulletin boards and produce flyers for events.
• Organize and create program performance costumes.
• Accompany participants on art, theater, and dance-related trips.
• Maintain daily attendance for all courses
• Co-facilitate Parent Meetings
• Ensure the cleanliness and presence of all of the space used by the program participant
• Responsible for keeping the Program Director informed of any changes and abnormalities that may occur.
• Submit weekly reports to the Program Director on a timely basis.
• Attend all program staff meetings, trainings, and special events.
• Assist other staff when needed
• Other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing, teaching & maintaining scheduled Activities.
• Responsible for helping participants develop in arts and crafts.
• Organizing Arts and Crafts exhibitions.
• Engage participants in the arts to help build skills that would help them express themselves.
• Develop and maintain arts, theater, music, dance and poetry, jewelry making, and paper mâché.
• Organize and create art exhibitions, dance routines, theater presentations, music recitals, and poetry jams.
• Assist with the recruitment and retention of participants.
• Maintain site bulletin boards and produce flyers for events.
• Organize and create program performance costumes.
• Accompany participants on art, theater, and dance-related trips.
• Maintain daily attendance for all courses
• Co-facilitate Parent Meetings
• Ensure the cleanliness and presence of all of the space used by the program participant
• Responsible for keeping the Program Director informed of any changes and abnormalities that may occur.
• Submit weekly reports to the Program Director on a timely basis.
• Attend all program staff meetings, trainings, and special events.
• Assist other staff when needed
• Other duties as assigned

The demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Ability and patience to work with children and young people, recognizing their exuberance and juvenile behavior, particularly in group settings.
• Move for long periods, providing instruction.
• Travel when taking field trips, using public transportation, traversing city streets, ascending/descending stairs, and being exposed to outside weather conditions while escorting youth