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Associate Program Director, Learning Through Drama at Research Foundation CUNY | LAYIQ

Understanding, maintaining, developing, and representing Creative Arts Team/Learning Through Drama pedagogy
Assisting Program Director in planning and steering Learning Through Drama programming
Assisting Program Director in hiring, training, and managing about eight to ten Actor Teachers, whose responsibilities include creating weekly curriculum to be implemented in schools
Assisting Program Director in establishing and maintaining relationships and regular communication with administrators and teachers at 12 to 15 NYC public high schools and middle schools, including in-person meetings in The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens
Assisting Program Director in creating and maintaining systems to collect program data, including evaluations
Assisting Program Director in managing up to eighteen MSW interns, whose responsibilities will include case management
Securing workshop schedules at each school that fulfill contractual requirements, educational goals, and programmatic needs
Having an on-site presence in schools in Queens, The Bronx, and Brooklyn to facilitate new program-to-school relationships, fulfill funder requirements, and support other administrative programmatic needs. In-school presence will be as-needed but may be required up to five days per week
Communicating schedules, including last-minute changes to Actor Teachers, school staff, and funders
Interfacing with DYCD Connect and AirTable to ensure data is entered accurately and on time
Preparing internal files for periodic funder audits
Attending weekly team meetings at CAT and participating in weekly Curriculum Lab with Actor Teachers
Attending periodic meetings with fulltime CAT staff and contributing to strategic planning
Representing CAT (along with other FT staff) at K-16 Initiatives staff meetings (the unit within CUNY where CAT is based)
Co-facilitating curriculum training as needed with the Program Director for Actor Teachers during September curriculum intensive, and weekly Monday meetings
Co-facilitating weekly sessions with Program Director for MSW student apprentices
Correspond and have weekly check-ins with MSW candidate Field Supervisors
Facilitating relationships between MSW Student Apprentices and school staff
Along with PD, creating and maintaining digital and physical systems to document curriculum
Scheduling short-term residencies as they arise throughout the school year
Filling in for Program Director in their absence
Implementing periodic short-term residencies as they arise during the school year, to be negotiated with PD and CAT leadership
Occasionally facilitating workshops in schools as a substitute for Actor Teachers
Representing LTD at conferences as appropriate and needed
Other duties as assigned
Work Sites
The Associate Program Director must be available to be on site (at CAT offices in Midtown Manhattan or in a school anywhere in NYC) five days a week. Work sites will be at CAT on Mondays and Wednesdays, at schools as needed, and remote only when workload allows. School sites are as follows and are subject to change:
999 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn
925 Astor Avenue, The Bronx
1180 Rev James A polite Avenue, The Bronx
109-95 98th Street, Queens
101-01 Rockaway Boulevard, Queens
121-10 Rockaway Boulevard, Queens
1700 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11213
99 Terrace View Avenue, Bronx, NY 10463
3000 E Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY 10461
14-30 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11106
For questions, please e-mail Precious Sipin at precious@creativeartsteam.org and Mícheál Curtin at micheal.curtin@cuny.edu

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