Teaching Artist – Dance (Various Styles)

Center For Family Life in Sunset Park • New York, NY

46d • $25 - $30 • Onsite

About The Position

Center for Family Life in Sunset Park (CFL) is a nationally recognized social service organization dedicated to promoting positive outcomes for children and adults in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, through a comprehensive range of neighborhood-based family and social services. This role is part of the Life Lines Community Arts Project, which has a long history of facilitating high-quality community-based art-making with adolescent youth in our vibrant neighborhood. The Dance Teaching Artist's role focuses on creating and facilitating meaningful dance activities and experiences for middle and high school-aged youth. The Dance Teaching Artist will design and implement age-appropriate dance activities in various styles, for a variety of skills levels and will choreograph dances for performances throughout the year.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or at least 4 years of experience as a dance instructor
• Experience working with middle school and high school students
• Has a strong dance background in a variety of dance styles and techniques
• Can use the medium of dance to promote self-expression, skill development in performing arts, social-emotional learning, and community-building, and is interested in learning about and working in a social group work model
• Demonstrates a commitment to promoting dance for all, is interested in working with students with a varying level of dance skills and getting students excited about dance
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills
• Flexibility and the ability to work well as a member of a team of different disciplines (artists, social workers, teachers, young-adult staff)
• Interested in managing and creating positive experiences for diverse groups, including participants with disabilities and participants with behavior challenges
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and medical clearance, which will be conducted after a conditional offer is made and accepted

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual: English/Mandarin/Cantonese or English/Spanish, preferred

Responsibilities

• Design age-appropriate, standards-based dance curricula for groups of middle and/or high school age youth in school day, afterschool and summer programs
• Provide instruction in a range of dance styles, choreograph dance pieces, and lead weekly dance activities for middle school and high school student groups
• Collaborate with participants to make dance pieces and original material to be showcased in performances for the program, school, and/or community throughout the year
• Choreograph, direct, and collaborate with colleagues to produce 3 annual program-wide performances, including an original production that brings to life the struggles and vitality of our diverse community as well as two productions adapted from middle grade and children’s literature.
• The creation of the original production includes staff attendance on overnight cabin-based camping trips with youth which provide opportunities for rehearsals and community building.
• Collaborate with other teaching artists on other interdisciplinary projects, some of which take place during school-day time in partnership with DOE staff.
• Work as part of a diverse staff team to contribute to the overall supervision of the after-school and in-school program, the planning and execution of special events, staff development training, and other community-building activities, outside of the realm of dance instruction.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits along with the opportunity to participate in additional voluntary life insurance, disability insurance, and a flexible spending account
• 403(b) retirement plan, including employer match and employer non-elective contribution at the employer’s discretion.
• 12 holidays, 2 floating holidays, and up to 20 paid vacation days per year. One sick day per month.

What This Job Offers

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