Graduate AssistantMovement Lab

Barnard College • New York City, NY

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Movement Lab is seeking a Graduate Assistant to support the Associate Director and Coordinator with the operational logistics of running the lab. This role involves managing emails, scheduling hours, and maintaining calendars. The Graduate Assistant will also contribute to co-curricular programming by offering creative insights and knowledge from their field of study. The lab engages in non-standard hours for rehearsals and technical support, especially during peak semester periods, and the Graduate Assistants will help ensure the efficiency of this programming. They will also assist in training new users on lab use and technologies, and participate in a horizontal planning structure, contributing creative ideas to the lab's themes, artist cohorts, and projects. The lab's philosophy is 'Thinking Creativity' under constraint, and candidates should be able to articulate their inspirations and translate them into creative practice and artistic projects. Preference will be given to those with collaborative skills and engagement in arts, technology, media, and experimentation. The role also includes instructional and curricular support, such as assisting with workshops, production needs for students and artists, and class support. This involves calendar booking, space management, web updates, and communications tasks like social media posts, flyer distribution, and newsletter content.

Requirements

• Ability to work in a horizontally structured team.
• Ability to work in a creative exploratory environment.
• Ability to multi-task, particularly near semester ends when production workloads and non-standard hours of engagement intensify.
• Good Interpersonal and oral skills.
• Understanding of emerging technologies as related to creative practice.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Enrollment in a Graduate Program that can contribute to the Lab’s particular areas of artistic and technological engagement.
• Demonstrated experience in Emerging Technology and Creative practice and/or Arts Management.
• Working with groups in artistic/performing/spatial arts practice.
• Experience working in higher education.
• Interact with students, staff and workshop leaders in a collaborative manner.
• Understand and be willing to engage with the needs of experimental laboratory work in the arts and sciences as relates to the study of human movement, as well as film and theatrical production, which may require non standard hours of engagement.
• Reference and be aware of best practices within the field and to assist in translating these into practice in the lab.
• Understand broadly, and be willing to engage with cross disciplinary purposing of technology, artistic practice, and scientific investigation as relates to human movement and cognition.
• Have an understanding of workflow and time management and the skills in any software required to facilitate this effectively.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrate collaborative skills.
• Engaged in arts, technology, media, experimentations.

Responsibilities

• Provide student-facing support for the Movement Lab in both operational and non-standard hours.
• Assist the Associate Director and Coordinator in the training of lab use and its technologies for new lab users.
• Engage in a horizontal structure approach to planning and problem-solving, bringing creative insights and interests into a shared process of imagining the Lab’s themes of investigation, cohorts of artists and the projects they offer.
• Assist with workshops and production needs for Student Artists and Artists, as well as class support when needed.
• Assist in communications tasks including social media posts, event flyer printing and posting, newsletter content.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level