Overview
Early Childhood Art Museum Educator Jobs in Shelton, CT at cARTie
Title: Early Childhood Art Museum Educator
Company: cARTie
Location: Shelton, CT
cARTie seeks an Early Childhood Art Museum Educator to work part-time across multiple sites. This Early Childhood Art Museum Educator will join and collaborate with a team of other early childhood art museum educators. They are responsible for co-facilitating art and museum enrichment programs for classes of PK-2 students, documenting students’ learning, and supporting the prep and development of lesson plans. At times, the Early Childhood Art Museum Educator will also be involved in community programs. They will engage in regular professional learning with The cARTie Curriculum, and gain knowledge about The Reggio Emilia Approach, Artful Thinking, Studio Habits of Mind, Mindfulness Education, Visual Thinking Strategies, Inquiry-Based Learning, Standards, Emotional Intelligence, and other strategies.
About cARTie
cARTie is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization located in Connecticut. As Connecticut’s first and only mobile art bus for kids, cARTie fills an important gap in the provision of art and museum education. Our mission is to bridge inequities in education and arts access across Connecticut by bringing the museum field trip to schools and students directly.
Qualifications
Art museum education / early childhood experience
Knowledge and passion for promising practices in early childhood art museum education
Ability to work with diverse populations
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Dependability
Growth mindset
Ability to work from home using virtual methods of communication, as well as in-person for programming
Transportation to/from a range of school and community sites
Preferred Qualifications
Bilingual+
Working Conditions
The Early Childhood Art Museum Educator will work from a variety of environments. They must, at times, be able to work in a home office environment, aboard the museum bus for school visits across Connecticut, and from the cARTie office space in Shelton, CT. The mission of cARTie may sometimes also take the Early Childhood Art Museum Educator to nonstandard workplaces. They should be prepared for frequent moving, standing for extended periods of time, bending, lifting, and carrying material weighing up to 50 pounds.
Hours
The Early Childhood Art Museum Educator will work approximately 1-3 days per week, as needed and as their availability allows. They collaborate with cARTie’s Leadership Team to set their schedule based on the availability of school visit programming and other training opportunities.
Wage
The Early Childhood Art Museum Educator is paid $18/hour with opportunity for growth.
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Employment Type
Part-time
Equal Employment Opportunity
We celebrate and embrace the diversity of everyone who walks through our doors and strive to be an inclusive organization and museum that cultivates compassion, expands perspectives, and grows the future stewards of our collective community. In our hiring and in our work, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. As an organization working directly with children and youth, we require all staff to successfully pass a background check as a condition of their hire.
Procedure for Applying
Qualified candidates should indicate their interest in an email, with a current resume and cover letter to cARTie’s Executive Director, Clare Murray at [email protected]. Qualified candidates will be contacted for follow-up interview proceedings. For more information about cARTie, visit www.cARTie.org. cARTie is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
