Job Description

At EDMO, Coaches spend their time connecting with kids, honing leadership skills and making a real impact. Our positions offer a unique opportunity to help kids uncover hidden talents, while pursuing your own personal and professional goals and passions. Spend your time developing translatable and transferable professional skills (like mentoring and curriculum development) while growing social emotional learning skills side by side with the kids (like collaboration, empathy and problem solving).  The online Coach/Instructor is responsible for teaching one-on-one tutoring sessions in art with your own curriculum during your unique availability. The online Coach/Instructor will also have the opportunity to teach weeklong and once a week classes using EDMO curriculum, lead virtual birthday parties and in class programs for teachers if desired. 

MAIN DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Approach education with passion and excitement and build positive role model relationships with children
• Maintain good communication with families about scheduling and children's needs. 
• Set-up, organize, and manage the needed supplies and curriculum for coaching sessions 
• For EDMO Classes - instruct as many as 15 children in given curriculum during predetermined meeting dates 
• For Virtual Birthday Parties - lead up to 15 kids in a fun birthday party experience using EDMO created curriculum and activities
• For In Class Programs - lead up to 25 kids in a virtual classroom with the assistance of their teacher in an engaging STEAM activity for up to 1.5 hours.
• Refine curriculum and add personal contributions with guidance of the Program Manager for EDMO classes
• Interact with families in a professional and energetic manner
• Help cultivate healthy self-esteem and a natural love for learning 
• Instill the EDMO Vibe demonstrating through actions each of the key character skills of empathy, responsibility, initiative, collaboration, problem solving and emotional management, while also reinforcing these qualities in other staff and children

Position reports to: Program Manager  

Qualifications

If you are missing any of the qualifications listed below or only have experience/expertise in one subject area please don't be discouraged! We love teaching like-minded humans! Please still apply if you are enthusiastic about this work and think you would be a strong fit.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS ARE:

• Experience (and a love for!) working with kids
• High sense of responsibility and dependability 
• Contagious enthusiasm and charisma
• Strong team player
• Creative, flexible, and excellent multi-tasker
• Willingness to solve problems, be patient, and remain positive and fun
• Experience facilitating groups of children (in-person or online) and/or working with youth programs
• Classroom management and teaching experience is a HUGE plus
• Bachelor's Degree/Degree in progress in a related field or relevant experience in the subject area

CURRICULUM SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE MAY INCLUDE:

• Experience with an art medium
• Experience teaching an art medium
• ANY extensive experience with art (paired with a background working with kids)

Additional Information

Coaching sessions are 55 minutes long and can include up to 3 children.  Class sessions are one to one and a half hour long.  In Class Programs are one to one and a half hour long.  Virtual Birthday Parties are one to two hours long. Salary: $20/hour + paid prep time Hours for coach program: You make your own hours based on your availability Hours for EDMO classes/in class programs/virtual birthday parties: Variable, will be assigned as your availability permits. There are options to combine all programs to get close to 30 hours/week certain weeks.