Arts Education Manager

**Arts Education Manager** * **Full\-time**: 40 hours per week, partly remote and on\-site. Non\-exempt position. * **Schedule**: General working hours are Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend hours will be required for classes and other work\-related activities. * **Compensation**: $70,000\-$75,000 pre\-tax annual salary, based on experience. * **Benefits**: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage. * **Vacation**: 14 annual holidays and accrued vacation starting at 19 days per year. * **Sick Days:** 10 hours accrued per month, up to 120 hours per year. * **Reports to**: Programming Director. **About La Peña Cultural Center** La Peña Cultural Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located in Huichin, the unceded land of the Ohlone people, a.k.a. Berkeley, CA. Rooted in the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora, La Peña has been a multicultural gathering place for artists, activists, and allies since 1975, hosting classes, performing arts events, film screenings, music jams, open mics, fundraisers, political strategy meetings, and other forms of cultural and civic engagement. Through its Educational Department, La Peña is a cultural homeplace where every week children and adults study and celebrate artistic and cultural traditions that have nourished struggles of resistance, sustained cultures, and contributed to the well\-being of communities seeking liberation. Visit for more information. **Position Overview** The Arts Education Manager visions, strengthens, and grows La Peña’s Educational Department by identifying opportunities for collaboration, developing new program models, increasing community engagement, and creating authentic and deep relationships with La Peña’s teaching artists, culture bearers, organizers, partners, and students. This position is responsible for ensuring that all educational programming taking place at La Peña (Classroom Rentals, Tuition\-based Class Series, Community Jams, and Free Community Space Gatherings) are aligned with La Peña’s mission, properly contracted and scheduled, timely invoiced, and fully supported to ensure their success. At the same time, the Arts Education Manager will uniquely represent La Peña to the public by building, implementing, and evaluating new La Peña classroom programming to take place in community institutions (examples: school daytime programming, after school programming, juvenile halls, etc). This off\-site programming will involve building curriculum, creating a new revenue stream model for the organization, and co\-leading curriculum training sessions with the Programming Director. This portion of the work is expected to begin slowly and diligently, with staff’s support. The Arts Education Manager works partly on\-site to onboard and support new educational programs with orientation and training sessions as needed, and conducts periodic surveys to evaluate programs’ impact and long\-term sustainability. The Arts Education Manager also attends weekly on