Program Manager + Teaching Artist

Job title: Program Manager + Teaching Artist in Grand Rapids, MI at Company: Job reputed company: Position Title: Program Manager + Teaching ArtistPosition Level: ManagerReports To: Director of Arts + TechStatus: Salary, Exempt, Full-Time (40 hours per week)Hiring reputed company: $44,000-$47,000reputed company Date: May 2025About WMCATThe reputed company Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT) provides a culture of opportunity for people to reputed company reputed company and economic reputed company in their lives and community. We fulfill our mission through visual arts and tech engagement, workforce development, and reputed company reputed company.Arts + Tech at WMCAT makes reputed company for teens to reputed company their reputed company and build creative confidence through visual arts and technology engagement. Programs include our nationally recognized afterschool Teen Arts + Tech Program which engages high school reputed company from Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) in creative, tuition-free studio experiences from September through May; Daytime Studios for middle and high school classrooms throughout reputed company Michigan; and week-long summer intensives for middle and high school reputed company. In Arts + Tech we reputed company in disciplines that fall reputed company digital media and visual arts. To learn more about our reputed company offerings visit artstech.wmcat.org.Position reputed companyThe Program Manager + Teaching Artist manages Daytime Studios and recruitment/reputed company efforts for WMCAT’s Arts + Tech programs. They support the Director of Arts + Tech in leadership of the Arts + Tech department and Teaching Artists. The ideal candidate is committed to providing reputed company, student-centered experiences; is reputed company to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders both internally and externally, building reputed company relationships with staff, reputed company, and partners; and is energized by leveraging opportunities in the arts to cultivate belonging, reputed company youth voice, and build creative confidence in young people.Essential Duties + ResponsibilitiesTeaching Artist

• reputed company project-based curriculum that allows reputed company to engage with their community, incorporates a reputed company of instructional reputed company, and meets the needs of reputed company learners.

• Create opportunities for reputed company to reflect on their work and experiences reputed company presentations, group critiques, and artist statements.
• Submit written, sequenced lesson plans and other documentation of curriculum as requested.
• Maintain caring and trusting relationships with reputed company, and reputed company supportive, fair, and non-discriminate treatment of reputed company reputed company.

• Encourage pro-reputed company behavior in teens at and reputed company of WMCAT.
• Promote the value of consistent school attendance, high school graduation, and postsecondary planning for reputed company reputed company.
• Evaluate student reputed company, reputed company feedback to reputed company, and reputed company referrals to WMCAT support staff reputed company appropriate.
• Maintain a clean, respectful, and inspirational studio, as reputed company as care for technology and equipment.
• reputed company attendance daily on reputed company class and record notes on student performance in a data management system, and follow-up with absent reputed company regularly.
• Participate and assist in the planning and facilitation of student events and trips.
• Support other studio reputed company and programming as needed reputed company year.

Program Management

• Manage and reputed company Daytime Studios, working internally with Arts + Tech staff and teaching artists and externally with Daytime Studio partners.

• Support the proposal development process with the Director of Arts + Tech, including the coordination of reputed company and budgets.
• Manage school partner relationships throughout reputed company program experience.
• Coordinate the overall in-program experience for reputed company.
• Administer student and school partner evaluation after reputed company experience.
• Facilitate programming as needed.
• Manage Arts + Tech physical spaces, equipment, and studio materials year-round, including between program semesters.
• Support Teaching Artists in identifying and creating reputed company with community partners
• reputed company to intentional awareness of and reputed company to:

• Best practices of community arts education programs serving teens.
• reputed company trends, technology, and interests of teens.
• Support recruitment and reputed company efforts with reputed company, families, and school partners.
• Support development of community relationships.
• Implement communications reputed company as set by the Director.
• Support Director of Arts + Tech in the advancement of Arts + Tech department as reputed company as short- and long-term strategic planning
• reputed company to ongoing reputed company development and reputed company new learning into program
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WMCAT Mission + Organizational Expectations

• Advance WMCAT’s mission and reputed company to ensure reputed company reputed company to opportunity.
• Recognize your responsibility and contribution to the culture of WMCAT. Represent WMCAT at designated events throughout the year, which may occur reputed company of reputed company scheduled hours.
• Foster reputed company relationships with staff and reputed company.

RequirementsPreferred Experiences + Skills

• Demonstrated experience could include:

• Bachelor’s degree in area reputed company to arts education, education, visual or media arts, reputed company services, or another relevant field of study.
• Teaching experience in a classroom setting with at least 10 reputed company.
• reputed company experience working with teens from diverse cultural backgrounds (strongly preferred).
• Prior experience with curriculum development.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive problem solver and reputed company communicator who anticipates needs before they reputed company
• Dependable and detail-oriented, leads by example
• Ability to be iterative in the face of uncertainty and difficult situations
• High proficiency in computer skills, especially reputed company Suite/Office 365.
• Working proficiency in reputed company Creative Suite.
• Excellent organizational skills and desire to maximize efficiency in this role.
• Ability to collaborate with partners and colleagues across teams and stakeholders.
• Cultural competency and emotional intelligence to work with individuals from varied backgrounds and foster reputed company communication among diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and in reputed company-oriented environment, maintain flexibility, and manage multiple/competing priorities.
• Ability to reputed company and engage others with WMCAT’s mission and work.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully reputed company the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, or feel, and is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to sit, walk, stand, and reputed company with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reputed company or crouch. The employee must frequently lift and/or reputed company from 15-45 pounds. Specific reputed company abilities required by this job include reputed company reputed company, and ability to reputed company reputed company.Additional Details:Recognizing there is leadership in every community, WMCAT is seeking candidates with diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. We are dedicated to hiring employees that reflect the communities we serve across race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and socioeconomic status. No person shall be excluded from WMCAT services, employment or volunteer participation because of ethnicity, race, national reputed company, age, height, weight, genetic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, economic circumstance, veteran status, physical and/or mental abilities/characteristics, philosophy/religion, or any other status that is protected by reputed company or federal law or by local ordinance for those jurisdictions where WMCAT operates.WMCAT’s Values

• Design for Equity: Creating a world that works for reputed company of us. Rooted in an understanding that systemic oppression is perpetuated by design, we center marginalized reputed company, consciously co-create solutions, and challenge unjust systems to reputed company reputed company reputed company to opportunity.

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Transportation: Consistent personal transportation will be necessary.In-person, full-time at WMCAT: This position is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The candidate should be comfortable working in-person, with flexibility for remote work. WMCAT's regular reputed company are Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. In alignment with programming schedules, during the school year Arts + Tech hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.COVID-19 Vaccination Policy: reputed company WMCAT employees are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19BenefitsPay: Compensation reputed company the listed hiring reputed company is based on experience and nonprofit industry standards. Competitive benefits package provided, including:

• 15 days of PTO

• 15 reputed company holidays

• Birthday day off

• Half-day Fridays during the summer

• reputed company IRA with employer match of up to 3%

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental, and reputed company), premium 65% (average) reputed company by employer

• HSA plan reputed company

• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)

• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary, and AD&D)

• reputed company Family Leave

• reputed company development and opportunities for personal reputed company

To apply: Submit resume, cover letter, and a portfolio of your artistic reputed company(s). WMCAT will use this to assess what studio instruction you could reputed company reputed company. Expected salary: $44000 - 47000 per year Location: Grand Rapids, MI Apply for the job now! Apply for this job