Dates of Employment: July and August for 6-8 weeks - possible to have some Saturday shifts in May/June
Hours of Work: Tuesday–Saturday 35 hours/week

Remuneration starting at $19.50/hour

 

Applicants must be a student between the ages of 16 and 30, a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or have refugee status in Canada. Confirmation of student status may be required by funders. High school students eligible to apply.

 

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter, detailed resume and two references by April 15th to the Smithers Art Gallery, Attn: Nicole Chernish at info@smithersart.org.

 

Camp Leaders Position:

 

The Smithers Art Gallery is a non profit organization that runs twelve, 4 day long summer camps over the summer for multi-age groups (6-8, 9-12). We are seeking to hire under-respresented youth including Indigenous or other racialized youth, disabled and or LGBTQ+youth as camp leaders/supervisors. We have been successful in hiring from all of these under-represented youth in the past. We hope to hire youth who have been employed as camp counsellors in the past to provide additional growth and learning opportunities and experience for youth in their home communities.

 

Youth leaders will be responsible for developing age appropriate visual arts camps for our remote community. These camps will provide art education linked with interest areas such as nature, science and art history. Youth will gain meaningful work experience in planning and developing activities, working with others, and leading teams within their home community. Youth will receive one on one mentoring with our Gallery Manager who has worked in education programming and our Education Program Coordinator daily during program development and weekly once camps begin. Leaders will rotate each week of camp and will work in the gallery on alternate weeks and develop program curriculum. Details of the position and skills developed are listed below.

 

Summer Art Camps:

• Develop curriculum for art camps - Creativity and Innovation; Digital Skills

• Lead art camps - Adaptability; Collaboration; Communication; Problem Solving; Technical

• classroom set-up and take-down for each art camp - Technical Skills

• maintain inventory and purchasing new supplies within budget - Numeracy; Digital Skills

• manage registrations and payments - Numeracy; Digital Skills

• feedback surveys for parents - Digital Skills; Technical

 

Drop-in Art Activities (Saturdays):

• devise weekly activity & create a demonstration model - Creativity and Innovation; Digital Skills

• Lead Activity - Communication; Adaptability; Problem Solving; Technical; Creativity and Innovation

• maintain inventory of art and craft supplies and materials - Numeracy; Digital

• maintain accurate records and monitor project budget - Numeracy; Digital

 

General duties:

• staff the gallery and liaise with the public - Communication

• record visitor numbers and other data - Numeracy

• general cleaning and maintenance - Technical

• artisan shop sales and merchandising - Digital; Creativity; Collaboration; Problem solving; Relationship Building with artists

• Exhibition Set-up/Sales/Openings - Gallery specific skills that cannot be learned in other settings - how to set up an exhibition and hang a show; liaising with artists; specific art wrapping techniques for mailouts; “crate-ing” art for shipping

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The Smithers Gallery Association is an equal opportunity employer and employs personnel without regard to ancestry, colour, race, disability, gender identity and expression, or sexual orientation.

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