Friends Life Community is seeking Performance Arts Empowerment Specialists in Dance, Theatre, Performance Art, and Film! 

Compensation

• Compensation: $19/hr
• May Be Part-Time or Full-time
  

Your Purpose

As a Performing Arts Empowerment Specialist, you will play a vital role in supporting the daily operation of our programs, assisting in curriculum delivery across all program areas. Your mission is to positively impact the organization and its clients through the support of classes and activities that enhance self-advocacy, self-expression, active participation, and social and employment skills.

Your role will represent the mission of Friends Life Community, incorporating its core values into daily curriculum and program execution. Working directly with clients, you will contribute to skill-building and support, help them decrease dependency, and work to achieve client and programmatic goals.

Expectations

We expect you to bring excellence to program implementation, demonstrating sound judgment, decision-making, communication, and organizational skills.

Your active collaboration with co-workers and volunteers will result in clients learning valuable skills, increasing socialization, improving self-advocacy and independence, and enhancing Friends Life Community’s positive community reputation.

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Duties and Responsibilities: Program Implementation

• Create content and curriculum to build skills and empower individuals, maximizing potential outcomes. Your performing arts perspective will empower individuals to tell their stories in groundbreaking ways.
• Infuse curriculum with performance and innovation to teach skills in self-advocacy, confidence, daily living skills, and storytelling.
• Maximize collaboration with coworkers and volunteers to orchestrate classes that engage and produce final products that participants are proud to showcase.
• Demonstrate best practices, inclusion, empathy, communication, and relationship- building with clients.
• Create legacy projects with clients that spark activism and drive change.
• Support clients using performance to connect with the larger community and breakthrough social barriers that lead to greater inclusion and equity.

Event Support

• Represent FLC in a professional manner and increase positive awareness of its mission and brand.
• Demonstrate and increase awareness of the Friends Life Community brand as experts in the field of disability services and leaders in innovation.
• Support staff specialists at events to showcase client work and increase community engagement.
• Support evening/weekend activities such as Social Club Events, Friends’ Treat Truck events, Dinner Club, etc.
• Collaborate with team members to advertise, execute, and meet event objectives.

Client and General Program Support (as assigned)

• Support each client by informing individuals goals and reporting progress on goals.
• Provide individualized adaptations to meet goals.
• Build support systems around individuals to sustain success within programming and ensure skills are transferring successfully to community and home.
• Create and implement action plans for assigned program classes, groups, and individualized coaching.
• Work closely with all team members to support successful program implementation.

Other Duties:

• Champion FLC’s brand as a trailblazer in disability services, igniting change through innovation and creativity.
• Support fellow team members in overall organizational goals.
• Fulfill organizational policies and procedures.
• Transport clients throughout the community in company-owned vehicles, including minivans and minibuses.
• Mentor and coach co-workers and volunteers in organizational culture, values, and policies with positive attitudes and hold coworkers accountable to exceptional service delivery and professional program implementation.
• All duties assigned by supervisor.

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Qualifications

If the opportunity to blend your expertise in the arts with providing support and opportunities to adults with disabilities excites you, you may be the candidate we are looking for!

• Education & Experience 
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • Experience in teaching dance, theatre, performance art, and/or film is preferred
  • Bi-lingual in English and Spanish preferred
  • At least 1 year of experience working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities is preferred but not required.
  • Demonstrated ability to teach skills.
  • Proven ability to teach and impart skills that inspire growth.
• Attributes 
  
  • Belief in the organization’s mission and the willingness to share the FLC brand script with others.
  • An enthusiasm for guiding and motivating others towards program goals.
  • Ability to give direction and feedback to others to accomplish program goals.
    
    • Willingness to learn and receive feedback.
    • Demonstration of core values: innovation, community, inclusion.
    • Ability to execute programming and projects with a team.
    • Active demonstration of professionalism and good judgment throughout all work.
  • Ability to be flexible and adapt to necessary changes to support daily activities as well as benefit the organization.
    
  • Experience and enthusiasm for performing, directing, or creating original works of art and the understanding of how to tell a compelling story.
  • Understand and demonstrate policies and procedures, safety procedures, and sustain CPR and First Aid certification.