The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is a service organization and a community of arts education practitioners that shares information, provides professional development, and communicates with the public to promote our work in schools and beyond. The Roundtable produces a major annual conference, Face to Face; monthly professional development programs; a destination website; and other activities, in addition to ongoing advocacy and communications efforts to improve and advance the state of arts education. 

Commitments to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: 

The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is committed to equity, inclusion, and justice. We acknowledge our complicity in the long history of systemic racism within our country and the institutions of power in our city. We will continue to work to dismantle white supremacy within our organizations, schools, and communities. We offer these commitments to our membership and the arts education field:

• The Roundtable is committed to eliminating barriers and revealing pathways to cultural equity and inclusion in arts education, through our programming and our membership.
• The Roundtable is committed to eliminating barriers to advancement for professionals from underrepresented communities.
• The Roundtable is committed to responsive listening and transparency so that not only are we sharing our “best practices” but our challenges and questions as well.
• The Roundtable is committed to advocating for professional wages, employment benefits and fair working conditions for arts education practitioners’ quality and standard of living.

COMPENSATION: $4,800 each for TWO co-facilitators (FOR ORGANIZATIONS: Please apply with two facilitators in mind. FOR INDIVIDUALS: Please apply with a co-facilitator already selected.)

DURATION: Early November – late December, 2022; 6 total sessions

LOCATION: Hybrid or Remote via Zoom and minimum 2 in-person gatherings in the NYC area (pending circumstances)

EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION: Part-Time Independent Contractor (grant-funded)

Cohort Project Goals: To offer sequential, in-depth professional learning opportunities to best prepare arts education practitioners to teach in the post-pandemic classroom. This includes:

1. sharing in-depth culturally responsive-sustaining, and educator-centered techniques to ensure arts education practitioners can meet the diverse needs of students with empathy and appropriate support;
2. bolstering arts education practitioner resilience and well-being, providing practitioners with community and building out their professional network; and
3. providing resources that participants can turnkey within their organization and their own work (i.e. worksheets, resource list, checklists, etc.)

Cohort Session Planning & Administrative Oversight

• Mapping out and planning a six-session virtual cohort learning model for 30-40 arts education practitioners (representing any and all artistic disciplines), with each session a minimum of 1.5 hours and not exceeding 3 hours in duration
• Collaborating with Roundtable staff to plan and facilitate one additional 1-3-hour public workshop open to the general Roundtable community on a related topic
• Collaborating with Roundtable staff and Programming Committee members on:
  • An outline / description of the cohort model for marketing purposes
  • Reviewing / crafting questions and criteria for the cohort application process
  • Scheduling the cohort sessions, preferably weekly beginning in early October and ending late November, 2022 (with a one-week break midway through the series)
  • Crafting pre- and post-experience participant surveys
• Preparing any necessary workshop materials (presentations, worksheets, surveys, handouts, resources, etc.) and sharing them with Roundtable staff at least one week in advance of each session for dissemination to the cohort
  • Please note these materials will be shared with the cohort members but may also be made available for the larger arts education community on the NYCAIER website (with facilitator’s approval).
• Crafting agendas for each cohort gathering and sharing with Roundtable staff for grant reporting purposes
• Conferring with Roundtable staff and the Programming Committee regarding any materials, supplies, tech requirements, etc. that you may have as a facilitator

Cohort Facilitation & Reporting

• Attending and facilitating all cohort sessions as scheduled
• Collaborating with Roundtable staff to share post-session resources, assignments, next steps, etc. with participants in a timely manner
• Scheduling an additional five total hours of “Cohort Office Hours” throughout the duration of the cohort as an opportunity to connect with participants further on the cohort topics, or to catch up participants who may miss a session
• Facilitate one 1-3-hour public workshop open to the general Roundtable community on a related topic

Post-Cohort Learning Experience

• Attend a debrief meeting with Roundtable staff and the Programming Committee once the cohort experience has ended, preferably about one month post-process
• Complete a facilitator exit survey within one month of the final session, which will be used in grant reporting, and to assist in planning the next cohort project
• Undertaking other reasonable tasks not specifically described herein in order to ensure the efficient, smooth functioning of all aspects of the cohort learning experience

Time Commitment Expectations

• Planning Meetings with Roundtable Staff & Committee: 4 hours max (2 meetings, up to 2 hours each)
• Session Facilitation: 9 – 18 hours (6 sessions, each 1.5 – 3 hours)
• Additional “Cohort Office Hours: 5 hours total (throughout the process, TBD by facilitator availability)
• Debrief Meeting: 1.5 – 2 hours (within one month after final session)
• Additional time for session planning, material and resource creation, correspondence with staff and committee members, completion of exit survey, etc.: 10 – 15 hours

PLEASE NOTE: This posting is for TWO co-facilitators. FOR ORGANIZATIONS: Please apply with two facilitators in mind. FOR INDIVIDUALS: Please apply with a co-facilitator already selected.

Please send the following materials via email to jobs@nycaieroundtable.org with the subject line “Cohort Facilitator – CRSE”:

1. A one-page cover letter addressing your/your organization’s expertise in the cohort series topic and interest in the project
2. Background materials exhibiting your/your organization’s experience related to the topic (i.e. resume / CV, website URLs, LinkedIn, or information on previous programs that you’ve facilitated, etc.)