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Youth Initiative Coordinator

The Youth Initiative Coordinator will:

• Update and implement COVID-19 safety plans and ensure ongoing compliance with public health guidelines
• Recruit, train, and schedule teaching artists and teaching artist assistants
• Provide or coordinate training for teaching artists
• Communicate with each of the sites and the Bread & Roses executive director
• Ensuring the smooth running of all programming
• Coordinate supply distribution to teaching artists
• Provide curriculum support to teaching artists
• Executing exit interviews with all teaching artists and apprentices
• Assisting with grant reporting related to Youth Initiative programming
• Develop, distribute, and collect program evaluations
• Develop, distribute, and collect teaching artist evaluations
• Build partnerships in St. Louis County in order to provide programming at four new sites

Bread & Roses will provide:

• Timely communication
• On time payment for the coordinator, teaching artists, and artist assistants
• Access to the Youth Initiative curriculum
• Technical, administrative, and management related support
• Reimbursement for pre-approved and budgeted for expenses

Requirements

While Bread & Roses Missouri will consider any applicant who can successfully fulfill the responsibilities above, the following would be beneficial for an applicant to showcase:

• At least 1 year of similar experience
• Significant involvement in the St. Louis artistic community
• Connections to locations in St. Louis City and St. Louis County that would benefit from our programming
• Success working with community members and children from a diverse range of backgrounds and life experiences
• Success working with a team of artists
• Extraordinary organizational skills

Given our mission, Bread & Roses expects all applicants to have a deep commitment to social justice, community engagement, and representing the stories of working families. We also deeply value diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our work and our staff. Applicants who can speak to personal experience with these issues should emphasize this in their application. Reasonable accommodations will be made for applicants with disabilities.

Compensation and Time Commitment

This is a part-time position with more intense hours during the late spring, while preparing for the program, and during the summer, while executing the program. Hours will vary between 5-15 hours per week. This position pays $25/hour and does not offer benefits.

To apply:

Please send a resume and cover letter as one PDF to Elyse Mack, Executive Director, by Friday, October 22 at 9am via: breadandroses.mo@gmail.com

Bread & Roses Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer