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Part-time by design. Serious anyway.
Twenty-eight of our forty-one staff are part-time, because we hire working artists, engineers, and barbers who want to teach without quitting the thing that makes them good at it.
- Open roles
- 4
- Part-time share
- 68%
- Entry wage
- $24.50/hr
- PD budget
- $1,200/yr
Open roles
| Role | Site | Hours | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technology lead | Lents | 22 hrs/wk, school year | $31.00–$35.50/hr |
| Program assistant (Crafts) | Hawthorne | 14 hrs/wk | $24.50–$26.00/hr |
| Program assistant (Nothing) | Montavilla | 8 hrs/wk | $24.50–$26.00/hr |
| Saturday salon instructor | St. Johns | 6 hrs/wk | $38.00/hr, licensed |
Every posting includes the band because the alternative is a guessing game that mostly wastes the time of people who cannot afford to guess. Bands are for the role, not the person; we place new hires by experience and review annually.
What the job actually is
You run a program for eleven weeks with eight to fourteen kids. You plan the term, buy the materials (we have a card and a real budget), teach two afternoons a week, and write a short note home about each kid at the end. You also do snack duty, cleanup, and one site meeting a month. There is no grading, no lesson-plan template longer than a page, and no expectation that you answer email at night.
The hard parts are the hard parts: a kid who is having a terrible year, a project that fails in week nine, a parent who is furious about something that happened at school and not here. We train for those. We do not pretend they do not happen.
Benefits
| Benefit | Detail |
|---|---|
| Health | Medical, dental, vision for anyone at 20+ hrs/wk; 85% of premium covered |
| PTO | 6 weeks for full-time, prorated for part-time, plus the last two weeks of December |
| Professional development | $1,200/year, no approval theater — you tell your supervisor what you are learning |
| Materials stipend | $300/term to build your own demo pieces |
| Sabbatical | 4 weeks paid after five years, because we want people to stay five years |
| Retirement | 3% match, no vesting cliff |
| Kids | Free enrollment for your own children, obviously |
Hiring process
- Apply with a resume and a short note about a thing you made with your hands. No cover letter template.
- A 30-minute phone call with the program director. Mostly about what you teach and how you handle a room.
- A paid two-hour session with kids. You plan something small. We pay you $75 for it. Kids fill out three questions afterward.
- A reference check and a background check, then an offer within a week.
We especially want applications from people who grew up in the neighborhoods we serve, people who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, or Somali, and people who came to their trade through a non-traditional route. No degree requirement for any program role.
Apply
Send a resume and a note about something you made. We read all of them; the program director replies within a week.