Dance Specialist

Salary: Starting at $25/hr based on experience.

Position Summary: The Dance Specialist will be responsible for teaching school-age children introductory level material. The Dance Specialist is expected to prepare the children for a performance by the end of the school year and summer camp.

Essential Duties:

• Understand and promote the organization's Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Develop course curriculum.
• Help students present end-of-quarter dance performance.
• Teach general dance skills to students in creative ways.
• Ensure safety and well-being of students.
• Attend mandated staff meetings.
• Request supplies and equipment needed for activities.
• Maintain proper care of supplies and equipment.
• Adhere to policy and procedures of CA - Dunlevy Milbank Center.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Candidate must be a college student, have attended college, or has graduated.
• Applicants must be responsible, dependable, and have a minimum of 2 years of experience in the field.
• Must be comfortable creating and teaching choreography.

Key Competencies:

• Strong ability to make dance engaging for youth of all ability levels.
• Dynamic personality; able to relate to youth 5-14 years old.
• In touch with popular youth culture.
• Must have experience in various dance genres.
• Good organizational and planning skills, high creativity and the ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Be able to work 4-5 days from 3:00pm - 6:00pm (After-school)
• Be able to work 4 days from 9:30am - 3:30pm (Summer camp).
• Have a love for working with children!

Leader - Inspires teammates to follow them
Innovative - Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
Detail Oriented - Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
Enthusiastic - Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
Dedicated - Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Some college (required)

2 years: Experience in the field (required)
Must be comfortable creating and teaching choreography (required)