Puppet Education Manager
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Job Location:
Oakland, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
22 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Childrens Fairyland is seeking a creative and engaging Puppet Education Manager to lead and grow our puppet education programs. This role combines education and performance giving children ages 29 the opportunity to experience puppetry through interactive workshops storytelling and dramatic play. The Puppet Education Manager plays an important role in expanding Fairylands educational impact both in the park and through outreach to local schools and community partners.
Working closely with the Puppet Education Specialist the Manager delivers programs both onsite at Fairyland and offsite at local schools and learning communities. The Puppet Education Manager ensures that all programs are developmentally appropriate engaging and aligned with Fairylands mission to inspire creativity learning and play.
Teaching responsibilities include facilitating workshops performing and storytelling with puppets guiding dramatic play activities and demonstrating performance skills such as puppetry manipulation acting singing and movement. The Manager is responsible for creating a safe inclusive and joyful learning environment where young children feel encouraged to participate and explore their creativity.
The ideal candidate is energetic engaging and passionate about working with young children. They bring strong classroom management skills an understanding of early childhood development and the ability to connect with diverse learning communities. Preferred candidates will have 35 years of experience in early childhood education fluency in Spanish and experience working with English learners and basic theatrical performance skills such as singing dancing and acting.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Puppet Program Management
- Deliver hands-on puppet education experience with field trip groups and park guests.
- Travel to off-site designations to deliver hands-on puppet programs
- Evaluate workshops through teacher assessments and informal observation to drive curricular edits.
- Collaborate with the Education Team to expand programmatic design and language accessibility through enrichment activities and creating multiple-means for expression for Spanish speaking children and caregivers and English learners.
- Collaborate on program assessment efforts and evaluate needs for program development with the education team.
- Facilitate puppet education workshops for teachers and educators
- Manage puppet education program registration confirmation and evaluation including processing payments in collaboration with the Specialist(s).
- Collaborate with Fairyland teams to ensure successful communication on marketing efforts facilitys needs program schedules and operational support
- Assist with financial management of grant award expenses
- Represent Fairyland at community engagement events
Team Leadership
- Plan execute and successfully complete the suite of puppet education programs ensuring it meets objectives within budget schedule and scope.
- Supervise and collaborate with the Puppet Education Specialist on building puppet shows and curriculum design.
- Set performance goals for the Specialist(s) and evaluate performance against goals on a regular basis.
- Effectively coach the Specialist(s) and provide supportive and developmental feedback to enhance performance. Ensure that team members develop the technical leadership and professional skills to be successful.
- Committed to on-going professional development as an educator
- Be a positive role model to constituents and external and internal stakeholders
Parkwide Support
- Plan design and implement parkwide event-specific projects as needed
- Perform puppet shows as the supporting role occasionally for Fairyland guests in the Storybook Puppet Theater as needed
- Adhere to Fairyland guidelines & policies and to those of the facility reporting any incidents or problems
- Perform other duties as assigned
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Bachelors degree required in Early Childhood Education required
- 3 - 5 years of classroom experience as an early childhood educator
- 2 years of experience with performance-based disciplines such as theater puppetry and/or performance art
- Full professional proficiency in Spanish and is accustomed to working with children who are English learners
- Extremely strong communication skills including writing ability and verbal communication with adults including in person over the phone and via email.
- Experience with facilitating and training educators preferred
- A high level of compassion for both children and adults and an abiding commitment to social justice and equity.
- Strong organization problem solving and time management skills.
- Able to work independently and collaboratively.
- Knowledge of the Oakland and/or greater San Francisco Bay Area schools and youth centers.
- Comfortable working with basic arts and crafts supplies
- Possess a working vehicle and current auto insurance policy
- Flexible and adaptable to constantly changing and/or challenging situations including weather crowd size staff shortages occasionally having to work past scheduled hours
Personal Attributes/Values
- People-oriented- able to interact effectively politely and productively with all types of people from all types of backgrounds and experience and in all types of situations. Comfortable working with non-English speaking and culturally diverse stakeholders
- Professional maturity to manage composure during stressful interactions
- Energetic diplomatic adaptable and with a good sense of humor.
- Passionate about the mission vision and goals of Fairyland and possess an understanding of how this position contributes to the organizations success.
- Strong work ethic with an orientation toward process improvement.
- Impeccable integrity and honesty
Physical Requirements
This position is primarily located in an outdoor environment. Able to perform the following duties with or without accommodation:
- Stand sit kneel walk bend and perform repetitive motions for the duration of an eight (8) hour shift
- Traverse safely over uneven terrain throughout the entirety of the 10-acre amusement park
- Safely lift and transport items of up to 50 lbs.
- Respond quickly to sounds
- See and respond quickly to situations
- Communicate in clear loud voice
- Operate two-radio for communications with park personnel
- Work in indoor and outdoor seasonal weather conditions. Work is approximately 80% indoors and 20% outdoors.
- Ability to work on weekends and holidays
- Proven track record of punctuality and attendance
- Current COVID-19 Requirement:Ability to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination prior to start of employment
Benefits & Compensation
This is a regular full-time non-exempt position scheduled Tuesdays through Saturdays 8:30 am 5:00 pm. The non-negotiable starting rate of pay is $30.50 per hour ($63440.00 annualized). Full-time employees are eligible to participate in benefits the first of the month following 60 days of service. Benefits include:
- Medical dental and vision coverage at 100% for employees
- Accrue up to 10 days of PTO in your first year AND separate paid sick leave bank of up to 10 days per year AND three floating holidays per year
- 401k plan available
- Family membership to Fairyland or 6 guest passes annually
- Discounts on Fairyland merchandise and Café
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
About Company
Join the Fairyland Team! Children’s Fairyland has been serving families in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 71 years. We are always looking for a few great team members to join our happy crew of over 60 individuals dedicated to delivering joy and magic to the youngest members of ou ... View more
