Girls Leadership is seeking a Teaching Artist Educator to work in partnership with New York-based Middle and High Schools. The New York Teaching Artist Educator will report to the National Training Director and is a member of the Girls Leadership Program team. The primary job responsibilities include direct work with adolescent girls, developing lesson plans, co-designing curriculum, providing support to school educators and training teachers on the delivery of the curriculum.
The Teaching Artist Educator responsibilities may include:
Use Girls Leadership’s design-thinking process to develop, adapt, and innovate Girls Leadership curriculum through a culturally responsive, healing-centered lens that is designed to meet the needs of the most marginalized girls.
- Innovate, create or modify Girls Leadership curricula while incorporating a gender and racial equity lens to meet the social-emotional needs of girls
- Conduct needs assessment processes and focus groups with girls and educators to identify priority areas for lesson and curriculum design
- Conduct design-thinking sessions and art-based projects with girls to create relevant curriculum
- Design, facilitate and iterate lessons and activities to girls, based on girl and educator input
- Collaborate with Girls Leadership program team to design and implement a Girls Leadership scope and sequence curriculum for 6th through 12th grades
- Evaluate effectiveness of lessons and activities through informal and formal assessment methods, and revise as needed
Provide direct programming services to girls engaged in Girls Leadership activities
- Deliver programming to adolescent girls in Girls Leadership programming, which may include in-school advisory classes, after school clubs, day camps and summer programming and research projects
Develop training and support for Educators
- Conduct needs assessment processes and focus groups with educators to identify areas of need for teacher support and training to effectively deliver curricula
- Observe educators and provide feedback and support to effectively deliver social-emotional based lessons and activities
- Design and facilitate learning experiences for educators to address identified areas of need
- Evaluate effectiveness of learning experiences through informal and formal assessment methods
- Collaborate with the program team members to design, develop and iterate Girls Leadership teacher training
Deliver training for Educators
- Facilitate Girls Leadership Teacher Training nationally
- Evaluate effectiveness of Girls Leadership Teacher Training
Teach Girl & Grown-Up Programs in the New York Area
- Teach up to 15 girl and grown-up pairs 1 – 2 hour workshop series
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications
- Direct experience providing arts and project-based learning programming to youth
- Commitment to gender and racial equity
- Experience developing and writing curricula
- Knowledge and experience with trauma-informed/healing-centered teaching strategies and practices
- Experience designing professional development for educators
- Experience facilitating workshops and trainings
- Several years of recent middle and/or high school classroom experience
- Attentive to detail and efficient in the management of diverse tasks and competing priorities
- Self-motivated, resourceful, innovative, and comfortable working independently with high personal accountability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrates social and emotional intelligence
- Committed to our values of Authentic Communication, Courageous Growth, Equity and Play
- Ability to work from multiple locations across the New York metropolitan area, including the outer boroughs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience organizing and conducting educational focus groups and/or needs assessment with K-12 youth from diverse backgrounds
- Teaching Artist and/or background in Educational Theater and arts-integrated education
- Experience building partnerships with community-based organizations
- Degree in education or similar field
- Bilingual Spanish-speaking a plus
Compensation & Benefits
This is a part-time position. The compensation for this position is $35 – $75/hour, depending on level of frequency. This is salary-based compensation, not work as an independent contractor.
This is an in-person position and requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Applications
Girls Leadership encourages individuals of all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to apply for this position. Girls Leadership is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Applicants of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter in Word or PDF format to hiring@girlsleadership.org. The subject line of the email should read New York Teaching Artist Educator.
Applications will be reviewed and processed until the position is secured. To learn more about Girls Leadership, please visit girlsleadership.org.