Camp director Jobs in Powell River, BC

North Van Arts is a grassroots, social‐profit, charitable cultural organization dedicated to maximizing the intrinsic value of the arts in all media. Our mandate is to enable emerging and professional artists in all disciplines, to bridge cultures, and to build strong and healthy communities through the arts. We are a vibrant and dynamic organization of over 400 members with a proud history of serving the citizens of the North Shore and artists from throughout Metro Vancouver and beyond.

Our program, Camp Creative offers week‐long creative experiences for children ages (6‐11) with different artists / instructors throughout the week. Through Camp Creative, we offer art instruction and engagement opportunities for young people in a variety of artistic disciplines, including visual arts, drama, writing, singing, songwriting, and movement.

Professional artist instructors with small class sizes develop and deliver art classes to ensure a positive experience for all. The Camp Creative Assistant (Art Coordinator – Education) will support the artists / instructors in managing and preparing supplies and equipment, assisting kids in the art activities, cleaning up and overseeing outside time and lunch / snack breaks, and supporting administrative tasks related to registration, communication, and logistics, gaining valuable experience in these areas. The Camp Creative Assistant will be working closely with the lead Instructor and the Arts Education Manager as Supervisor and Mentor, to support the operation of each of these camps in July and August.

Responsibilities :

• Program administration (communications with parents and instructors, compiling class lists)
• Researching and organizing materials for summer camps
• Support professional artists / instructors in assisting children during art activities
• Provide care and activities for children indoors and outdoors during the weeklong camps
• Promoting arts education programs and exhibitions through the development and distribution of materials and online listings
• Administrative tasks to support arts education programming
• Organizing and training volunteers
• Supporting North Van Arts with the delivery of other organizational projects, programs & events where required

Qualifications :

How to Apply :

Deadline to Apply : May 20, 2025. Start Date : June 23, 2025

Eligibility

This position is contingent on receiving funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program. To be eligible for this position, applicants must :

Remuneration :

20.00 per hour, 35 hour per week for 16 weeks

Organization : North Van Arts

Deadline : May 20, 2025

Organization : Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Deadline : Apr. 30, 2025

Organization : CICA Vancouver Centre of International Contemporary Art

Deadline : Apr. 21, 2025

Organization : Murray Paterson Marketing Group (MPMG)

Deadline : Apr. 30, 2025

Organization : The University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology

Deadline : Apr. 21, 2025 5pm PDT

The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is honoured to work on the traditional, unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and 240 other Indigenous communities across BC.

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