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The Wharton Arts Student Services department provides efficient, friendly, and timely customer service to both current and prospective families of the Performing Arts School. New Jersery Youth Symphony, New Jersey Youth Chorus and Paterson Music Project. and to facilitate relationships between families and instructors.

The Education Associate supports projects across multiple program arcs, including in-school, after school classes, summer camps, community partnerships, and occasional audience engagement events. The Education Associate offers logistical support across these programs through project coordination and scheduling; maintenance of internal calendars and student paperwork; contracting teaching artists and partner organizations; communicating information to parents and teachers as needed; and assisting with production and stage management needs. In addition, the Education Associate offers curricular support to staff and teaching artists through observing and assisting class sessions, participating in curriculum planning conversations, and occasionally co-teaching or lead-teaching programs.

The main goal of the Student Services department is to provide efficient, friendly, and timely customer service to both current and prospective families, and to facilitate relationships between families and instructors. As such, you will be expected to provide support to the Director of Student Services.

HOURS/SCHEDULE
· 25 hours per week - Some nights and weekends required, schedule to be determined in coordination with Director of Student Services and Director of PAS
COMPENSATION
· Salary $24,400/year, benefits eligibility

The Paterson Music Project (PMP) empowers children to achieve their full potential through the joyful pursuit of musical excellence. Inspired by the global El Sistema movement, PMP uses music education as a vehicle for social change in its home city of Paterson. PMP provides tuition-free musical training to students throughout Paterson after school. Students study a primary instrument and participate in ensemble practice and instrumental sectionals. They attend an ensemble rehearsal, sectional, and private lesson on a weekly basis. Students perform frequently for the community. There are 500 students in the program across the city of Paterson in grades 1-12. Reporting to the Director, the Manager of Programs and Community Engagement is responsible for managing daily PMP program operations

Grounds For Sculpture is seeking a temporary, part-time, Installation Tech to join our team. The Installation Tech will be responsible to ensure the smooth running of Night Forms, a multi-sensory immersive exhibition that includes audio, lighting, and video projection installed over a dozen outdoor sites throughout the grounds. Duties include pre-show walkthroughs and mechanical, electrical, or sound adjustments each evening Friday- Sunday; troubleshooting onsite during run of program each night; diagnosing and communicating technical problems.

Salary: $62,000-65,000 per year

Summary: The Director of Education and Community Engagement is responsible for the overall leadership, management and integration of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey’s public programming and community engagement programs. These programs cover three areas: Museum programs, K-12 Education programs, and Art & Healing programs.

The Wharton Arts mission is to provide the highest quality performing arts education to a wide range of students in a supportive and inclusive environment, where striving for personal excellence inspires and connects those we teach to the communities we serve. The Performing Arts School (PAS) is a program of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, and provides private lessons and group classes to over 400 students each week, ensuring that there is something for students of all ages and levels. In addition to instruction in all instruments and voice, PAS offers classes in music theory, early childhood music, musical theater, drama, and dance.

Position Summary:
Provide musical theater instruction for fall and spring classes, in school and after school community partnerships

As an intern at The Little Makerspace, you will have an opportunity to get involved in a rapidly growing new business where you can garner experience in developing and implementing projects, teaching, marketing, and administrative business duties. We are extremely passionate about creative education and exploration, and are looking for an intern that shares our passion. Our passion for education translates into ensuring that our staff understand not just the ‘what’ but also the ‘why’. We take the time to teach how to to do a task, and how why it matters to do it well. This position is great for anyone interested in education, visual arts, working with children, and/or in business administration.

Grounds For Sculpture is seeking a full-time Manager of Wellness Programs to join our education team. This person will be responsible to manage the Wellness Initiative at Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) overseeing all wellness programs including Tai Chi, sound baths, meditation, creative aging, horticulture workshops and more. The workload includes planning interactive and educational programs with an emphasis on developing reflective and meaningful experiences for a wide array of audiences to improve mental, emotional and physical health.