In close programmatic and community collaboration with The Kitchen’s leadership and Curatorial team, this position will:

Oversee The Kitchen’s existing education programs across the areas of high school, fellowship/internship and contribute to expanding program offerings for other audiences.

Coordinate across schools, organizations, program stakeholders and strategic partners to schedule and plan programs, workshops, and events that prioritize learning, discovery, and exchange intersectional with The Kitchen’s experimental mission and values.

Manage The Kitchen’s two-decade-long partnership with Liberty High School Academy for Newcomers, a public school in Chelsea serving ELL students in grades 9-12. The Kitchen’s programs at Liberty historically have included teaching artist residencies in English classes and after school program offerings in video and theater arts.

Expand The Kitchen’s education programs by researching, broadening, and advancing relationships with new school, community, and institutional partners that champion experiential learning, participatory process, and experimentation as core value sets. Increasing The Kitchen’s network of teaching artists to facilitate programs for varied audiences.

Supervise and lead annual fellows and interns, ensuring that they have a fulfilling experience learning about experimental art and the field at The Kitchen. Design comprehensive schedules and creative assignments that allow for young professionals to feel inspired and empowered to enter a competitive industry of non-profit art administrative practice.

Design and manage community-driven, artist-centered education programs that center access, equity, and inclusion as core tenets.

In collaboration with curatorial team, develop accessible interpretive materials and interactive programmatic activities complementary to The Kitchen’s creative program, including exhibitions, performances, public programs, and digital programming.

Invest in sustained, extended dialogue and relationships with stakeholders outside The Kitchen in the interest of advancing education, public programming, and community relations.

Participate in cross-departmental institutional planning within The Kitchen’s “without walls” period, as well as in active preparation for The Kitchen’s renovated 19th Street building.

Work collaboratively across multiple departments and stakeholders, including the Executive Director’s Office, Chief of Staff, Curatorial, Production, Development, Events, Archives, Finance, and Information Technology.

Act as an ambassador of the institution by engaging multiple audiences and stakeholders, both internal and external, across a variety of platforms and cultivate and maintain with diplomacy and care relationships with a diverse constituency of artists, trustees, members of the press, professional associations, and local non-profit organizations.

Attend approved off-site exhibitions, performances, studio visits with artists, symposia, and programs.

The candidate must be comfortable working in a collaborative, experimental, and culturally diverse setting and possess the openness, flexibility, and diplomacy required for meaningful collaboration with contemporary artists. Innovative and outstanding communication, writing, and research abilities are celebrated.

Two to three years of experience administering and assessing arts education and/or community engagement programs.

Teaching experience will also be considered.

Excellent organizational and analytical skills; experience with administrative and clerical duties, and outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Capacity to communicate educational and artistic goals for all programs.

Must manage tasks independently with strong attention to detail, and have ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

Experience with budget preparation and budget management practices.

Strong background in the history of modern and contemporary art across disciplines; an interest in avant-garde performance, movement research, and experimental media a plus.

Adaptability in hybrid in-person remote work environment and receptivity to a work schedule that sometimes will involve evenings and weekends as tied to ongoing programming.

Excellent computer skills, particularly AudienceView, MS platforms, including Word, Photoshop, Outlook and Excel, digital imaging experience a plus.

Strong interpersonal skills, positive energy, and collaborative spirit.

Familiarity with diverse intersections of New York art, culture, communities, and histories.

Bachelor’s degree; graduate degree preferred