Arts Educator

**Description**:
Arts Educators are key in supporting, facilitating and interpreting hands-on experiences for MOCA’s programme and workshop participants. While many of the associated activities will be conducted in-person at the Museum, there may also be the opportunity to run virtual workshop experiences. Learning Programmes include school visits, drop-in all-ages workshops, registered all-ages workshops, and peak period programmes. It is ideal for an energetic, outgoing individual who has a passion for contemporary art.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Be a host — greet and welcome all participants to the MOCA workshop and/or programme
- Facilitate check-in process for all participants; this process is dependent on the type of programme eg. a programme and/or workshop may be drop-in or require pre-registration
- Become familiar with MOCA’s additional public programmes, the museum building and its place in the Junction Triangle neighbourhood and cultural community
- Aid with and/or instruct comprehensive school and sessional arts programme(s) as developed by the Public Programmes and Learning team to meet the needs of all participants in the programme(s)
- Deliver the lesson plan(s) as developed by the Public Programmes and Learning team in a friendly and comprehensive manner
- Prepare programme materials
- Complete the set up, preparation, clean up, and tear down of the programme space
- Work with groups of up to 30 participants
- Facilitate school and group tours as needed and as related to the workshop(s) and/or programme(s)
- Maintain accurate visitor counts and records using best practices for data entry
- Complete all required ongoing training
- Advise the Public Programmes team of any difficulties with participants or the public programme as a whole
- Participate in and support additional organizational projects as requested

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Must-Haves**
- Experience in arts education for all ages
- Experience working with children and youth
- Highly effective and clear written and verbal communication skills
- Must be able to work weekends, evenings, holidays and special events
- Working towards or obtained BFA, BA and/or College Diploma in a related discipline
- Demonstrated working knowledge of Toronto’s arts community
- An understanding of conflict resolution/de-escalation and anti-oppression
- Able to complete a Vulnerable Sector Screening

**Nice-To-Haves**
- First-Aid Certification
- Bilingual (French or other second language)

**Benefits**:

- Attractions Ontario Benefits
- Toronto Attractions Council Benefits
- 4.5% In Lieu of Benefits

**About Museum of Contemporary Art**:
**Vision**:
The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is at the heart of the art ecosystem. MOCA will be ambitiously inclusive, interdisciplinary, and internationally renowned through our work with artists. A place for everyone to explore that provokes ideas and discussion and challenges the current cultural moment.

**Mission**:
Artists, relationships, and experimentation are at the centre of everything we do. MOCA Toronto presents rotating exhibitions and programmes that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through commissioning new work. We foster active dialogue, participation and celebrate complexity; in order to serve as an inclusive cultural hub in this hyper-diverse city and world.

**Values**:

- Equity, inclusion, and access
- Artist-centered, interdisciplinary and process-oriented
- Critical conversations and transformative work at our core
- Reciprocal and relationship-based
- Locally rooted and globally connected
- Courage and Responsibility

**Brief History**:
MOCA is a twenty-year-old institution that has experienced numerous iterations over the years. However, two main aspects have remained constant:

- The institution has served as an important gathering space in Toronto and Canada for artists to experiment, celebrate complexity, and offer thought-provoking responses to the current cultural moment
- MOCA has been and is constantly evolving and expanding with our times

In September 2018, MOCA moved into the Auto BLDG, a purpose-designed home in a former industrial space at the heart of a new neighbourhood in the Lower Junction.