Available Positions

Note: No telephone calls for position inquiries please. Please see instructions for application provided with each posting.

• Entrance Staff, Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival
• Janitorial Staff, Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival
• Site Cleanup Staff (Green Team), Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival
• Education Coordinator, Brooklyn Center for Media Education
• Director of Education
• Freelance Media Instructors, Community Media
• Media Teaching Artists, Community Media
• Freelance Shooters, Community Media
• Freelance TV Reporters, Community Media
• Associate Producer Arts & Culture, Community Media

Entrance Staff, Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival Center 
Posted 04-17-2012

A performing arts program of BRIC, Celebrate Brooklyn! is the borough’s premiere summer-long performing arts festival presenting a culturally-diverse season of music, dance, spoken word and film in a large outdoor venue. The Festival has a reputation for excellence that attracts 250,000 attendees from across NYC to the Festival’s home at the Prospect Park Bandshell each summer.

As a Celebrate Brooklyn! Entrance Staff member, you will be part of a dynamic team reporting to the Entrance Manager welcoming audience members, answering questions, and soliciting donations at the entrances.

Each Entrance Staff member will be responsible for engaging with audience members as they enter the venue. This individual should have experience interacting with the public to positively engage the audience and represent the message of BRIC and the Celebrate Brooklyn experience.

Duties include:

• Welcome audience members at venue entrances
• Collect donations 
• Answer questions
• Positive, proactive, professional behavior at all times
• Engage audience and distribute programs & other materials
• Spread positive & accurate message about Celebrate Brooklyn & BRIC
• Report to the Entrance Manager and work well as part of a team

Dates: May 10 through Mid-August 2012

Hours: Must be available to work all concerts, including weekend nights
          Approx. 35 per season: May - August

Salary, Benefits and Schedule

• $11 per hour
• Approximately 20 hours per week for 10 weeks.

The ideal candidate will have experience positively interacting with the public. Strong verbal communication skills; organizational skills, and a professional presence required. Acting experience is a plus!

How to apply

To apply Send cover letter and resume to: entrancemanager@bricartsmedia.org  
Subject: Entrance Staff Position
Due Date: May 4, 2012

Janitorial Staff, Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival Center 
Posted 04-17-2012

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is a multi-disciplinary arts and media non-profit dedicated to presenting performing arts, contemporary art, and community media programs that are reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities, and to providing resources and platforms to support the creative process. All of BRIC’s offerings are free or low cost, to enhance the public’s access to and understanding of arts and media.

A performing arts program of BRIC, Celebrate Brooklyn! is the borough’s premiere summer-long performing arts festival presenting a culturally-diverse season of music, dance, spoken word and film in a large outdoor venue. The Festival has a reputation for excellence that attracts 250,000 attendees from across NYC to the Festival’s home at the Prospect Park Bandshell each summer.

Reporting to the Venue Front of House Manager, Janitorial Staff’s primary responsibilities include all site and facilities maintenance and daily clean-up for the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival. This is a temporary hourly position beginning approximately May 31, 2012 and ending August 11, 2012.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Cleaning and restocking public restrooms with 20 stalls and urinals twice per shift
• Wiping down and refreshing 20 portable toilets
• Picking up and bagging trash and plastic/aluminum recycling
• Loading bags onto trash and recycling trucks.

Shifts will be 6-8 hours p/day ending most days at 1AM.

DATES (all evening except where indicated)

• May 30
• June 2 (afternoon) 5, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• July 7, 8 (afternoon), 10, 13,14, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31
• August 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate has strong interpersonal skills. Is able to work under pressure and in inclement weather. A minimum of two years previous experience as a Janitorial Staff for a venue, school, park or other large capacity facility. Ability to work in a team environment. Bilingual a plus. Salary $11. p/hr.

Qualified candidates may apply in person on May 15, 10AM-12PM at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, 45 Main Street, Suite 530, DUMBO, Brooklyn. Please bring government-issued photo ID and SS card. In advance you may submit resume and cover letter to: housemanager@bricartsmedia.org Subject: Green Team. Call 347-460-8499 to confirm your attendance on May 15 and/or to ask questions.

Site Cleanup Staff (Green Team), Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival Center 
Posted 04-17-2012

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is a multi-disciplinary arts and media non-profit dedicated to presenting performing arts, contemporary art, and community media programs that are reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities, and to providing resources and platforms to support the creative process. All of BRIC’s offerings are free or low cost, to enhance the public’s access to and understanding of arts and media.

A performing arts program of BRIC, Celebrate Brooklyn! is the borough’s premiere summer-long performing arts festival presenting a culturally-diverse season of music, dance, spoken word and film in a large outdoor venue. The Festival has a reputation for excellence that attracts 250,000 attendees from across NYC to the Festival’s home at the Prospect Park Bandshell each summer.

Reporting to the House Manager, the Green Team’s primary responsibilities include all site and facilities maintenance and daily clean-up for the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival. This is a temporary hourly position beginning May 31, 2011 and ending August 11, 2011.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in a safe, efficient and professional manner
• Carry out recycling program and encourage attendees to use correct recycling and trash containers
• Communicate with House Manager about needed site repairs and/or other site issues.

DAY OF SHOW

• Ensure site is clean throughout and ready for venue opening each day
• Ensure all trash cans are emptied, properly placed, bagged and ready for venue opening each day
• Ensure all public restrooms and portable toilets are clean, stocked and ready for heavy daily use
• Pick-up, sort and bag trash and recycling throughout show taking care to use three separate bags for 1) plastic bottles/cups, 2) aluminum, and 3) remaining trash.
• Continue cleaning in and around site sorting as above and leaving site clean for the next day
• Load recycling and garbage trucks

SCHEDULE

Shifts will be 6-8 hours p/day ending most days at 1AM. Dates (all evening except where indicated) May 30, June 2 (afternoon) 5, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, July 7, 8 (afternoon), 10, 13,14, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, August 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate has good interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic. Is able to work steadily and in inclement weather. A minimum of two years previous experience as a Maintenance/Janitorial Worker for a venue, school or other large capacity facility. Bilingual a plus. Salary $11 p/hr.

Qualified candidates may apply in person on May 15, 10AM-12PM at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, 45 Main Street, Suite 530, DUMBO, Brooklyn. Please bring government-issued photo ID and SS card. In advance you may submit resume and cover letter to: housemanager@bricartsmedia.org Subject: Green Team. Call 347-460-8499 to confirm your attendance on May 15 and/or to ask questions.

Education Coordinator, Brooklyn Center for Media Education
Posted 03-19-2012

BRIC is seeking a full-time Education Coordinator to assist with all aspects of our adult media education program, including planning and teaching classes, scheduling, and assisting students in their use of the media center. This position reports to the Manager of Media Education.

Duties include:

• Assist the Manager of Education in developing curriculum and creating course materials.
• Assist in the assessment of education programs.
• Teach video, TV studio, and multimedia workshops for community producers and community based organizations.
• Provide technical and creative consultation to students and community producers;
• Plan and facilitate orientation sessions for Brooklyn residents.
• Assist in the production of short promotional videos related to our education program.
• Assist in oversight of student interns.
• Assist in tracking community producer training credentials in a database application.
• Research and publish blog entries on production tips and best practices for students and community producers.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in relevant field,
• Experience with digital video cameras and non-linear editing programs (Avid Media Composer 5 preferred)
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience working with the public
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to be highly detail oriented
• Knowledgeable in MS Office Word, Excel and Outlook

Salary, Benefits and Schedule

• Approximately $35,000, depending on experience
• Full benefit package
• Tuesday – Saturdays required, occasional evenings

How to apply

To apply send cover letter and resume to: jobs@bricartsmedia.org. In the subject line, please write Education Coordinator.

Director of Education
Posted 02-08-2012

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is seeking a creative and strategic-thinking Director of Education, to unite and expand our youth education offerings.

BRIC’s programmatic offerings will expand significantly with the late 2012 opening of BRIC Arts | Media House, a new cultural center that will house a major contemporary art exhibition space, two performance spaces, and significantly upgraded and expanded community media facilities.

This is a new position, dedicated to unifying our youth education programs under a common framework, and growing our offerings for youth, both on and off-site. The Director of Education will report to the Executive Director and be a key member of BRIC’s senior management team.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze current education offerings and help shape a shared pedagogical framework across disciplines
• Develop curriculum frameworks and arts assessment tools that reflect BRIC’s goals for its education program and ensure BRIC curricula align with New York State and City educational standards.
• Working with the Executive Director and current Education staff, develop short, mid- and long-term goals for the expansion and development of BRIC school-based residencies, with a particular eye towards growing school-based programming for media and creating a school-based performing arts education program, and establishing multi- and inter-disciplinary residencies as appropriate
• Working with the Executive Director, Program Directors and current Education staff, and based on an analysis of local arts/media education needs and gaps, develop short, mid- and long-term goals for non-school based youth programming, including developing plans for a BRIC House summer program, and expanded family programs
• Identify infrastructure needs for additional resources, technology and staff to achieve those goals; assist in developing budgets and approve expenditures within budget authority
• Work with the Executive Director and Director of Development to identify and secure additional funding sources to support expanded offerings.
• Manage roll-out of approved expansion plans for media and performing arts
• Develop a cohesive framework for BRIC’s various internship programs and working with the Program Directors, help oversee the deployment of that framework in each discipline
• Develop orientation and professional development/evaluation programs for artist teachers, helping to build a community of professional artists with background in teaching in all disciplines
• Assist in designing quantitative measures and collecting data to enable statistical program assessment; work with existing education staff to create improved, systematic, consistent processes for data collection
• Together with other BRIC education staff, represent BRIC in public forums and the larger education community
• Serve as liaison on education programming to board of directors

Other

• Infuse across the organization a sense of continued engagement and excitement about BRIC’s educational offerings.
• Working with the Community Media Program Director, plan youth educational programming to be offered in conjunction with a new Youth Media channel (currently under development) and oversee staff implementing that educational programming.

Personnel

• Provide executive management of the Contemporary Art Education program
• Supervise Education Program Assistant, Manager of Youth Education for Community Media and, in the future, a corollary position for Performing Arts
• Oversee the hiring process for artist teachers

Ideal Qualifications

• Masters degree or higher in relevant field;
• Five or more years arts /media teaching and curriculum development experience
• Deep experience in education planning and assessment
• Three or more years in a senior management position at a cultural institution, with significant supervisory experience
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and leadership skills;
• Excellent statistical and quantitative analysis skills

Schedule

Full time

Salary

mid-high $70’s, depending on experience. Full benefits package included

To Apply

Email jobs@bricartsmedia.org. Please put your cover letter in the body of the email, attach your resume and put “Director of Education” as the subject.

BRIC is an equal opportunity employer.

Freelance Media Instructors

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn seeks experienced media professionals to teach different aspects of media production to Brooklyn residents. Courses include Avid editing, field production (camera, shot composition, lighting, and sound), studio production, and graphic design (Adobe Creative Suite).

Reporting to the BCME Manager of Education, Freelance Media Instructors’ responsibilities include, and are not limited to:

• Prepare lesson plans and provide instruction to classes of twelve adults.
• Evaluate students’ progress and verify competence for certification to use our media center facilities and equipment.
• Meet regularly with M to review curriculum and class outcomes.

Qualifications

• Expertise in field production with digital video cameras, especially Panasonic AVCCAM cameras;
• Expertise in non-linear editing with Avid software;
• Experience teaching video production and post-production
• Experience working with a diverse public with varying levels of technical skill
• Ability to be highly organized and detail oriented
• Flexible schedule for possible weekend work

Compensation & Schedule

$25/hour; classes are from 12-18 total hours, with preparation time.

This position is part of a NABET-CWA collective bargaining unit.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send brief cover letter and resume to jobs@bricartsmedia.org. In the subject line, please write “Freelance Media Instructor.”

Media Teaching Artists

The Brooklyn Center for Media Education, a program of BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn, seeks seasoned Media Teaching Artists to teach in New York City public schools.

Background

The Brooklyn Center for Media Education provides Brooklyn residents with access courses, workshops, and hands-on training that enable them to produce content for television and learn more about the ever-changing landscape of technology available to them today. The program also offers classes on media literacy and television production in the public schools.

Project Scope

Media Teaching Artists are contracted to provide a complete “residency” (educational program) at a public school. This will include:

• Meeting with school staff to determine their needs;
• Customizing media curriculum to mesh with the school’s program;
• Delivering classes to students and assisting with their final projects;
• Maintaining communication with the school and BRIC to report outcomes, make changes in program design, and assist with assessment;
• Obtaining and transporting materials & equipment needed for classes.

Qualifications

• Expertise in field production, digital video and non-linear editing;
• Experience teaching media to school-aged children;
• Experience developing curriculum and assessing educational outcomes;
• Able to work with a diverse group of students and maintain classroom control.

Schedule

School-based residencies are both during the school-day and after-school hours.

Compensation

To be determined based on the nature and term of the school residency.

How to Apply

If you are interested in this teaching opportunity, please e-mail a brief cover letter, resume, and 3 references to jobs@bricartsmedia.org. Please write Media Teaching Artist in the subject line. No phone calls, please.

Freelance Shooters

Job Description: Brooklyn Community Access Television is looking to add to its roster of freelance DV camera operators. If you have experience shooting ENG style news, sports, or documentary footage then we want to see a sample of your work!

Skills Requirements: Must have the ability to work solo in the field, or with a producer/reporter and production team. Must also be comfortable managing audio in the camera/on the fly using a JVC 110 and standard wireless lav. systems. Please have a current driver's license and a flexible schedule. This position is part of the NABET-CWA collective bargaining unit at BCAT. The selected candidates will be or will become a member of NABET-CWA.

How to Apply

No phone calls or emails, please. Your work should speak for itself.

Email resume and link to demo work: jobs@bricartsmedia.org. Subject line should read: "Freelance Shooter".

Mail resume and DVD to:
Production Manager
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
242 3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Freelance TV Reporters

Job Description: Seeking freelance, on-camera reporters for Brooklyn-based bi-weekly news magazine, Brooklyn Review. Reporters are responsible for generating story ideas, working with a camera person in the field to execute the story and editing their packages on AVID. We are looking for reporters with a passion for storytelling, personality and the ability to provide in depth, insightful coverage of the issues facing the borough of Brooklyn. Our style is more NPR than NBC.

Reporters are paid on a per package basis, with packages ranging in length from 3-6 minutes.

How to Apply

Email resume and link to demo work: jobs@bricartsmedia.org. Subject line should read: "Freelance TV Reporter"

Mail resume and DVD to:
Production Manager
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
242 3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215

BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn is an equal opportunity employer.

Note: No telephone calls for position inquiries please. Please see instructions for application provided with each posting.

Freelance TV Reporters

Job Description: Seeking freelance, on-camera reporters for Brooklyn-based bi-weekly news magazine, Brooklyn Review. Reporters are responsible for generating story ideas, working with a camera person in the field to execute the story and editing their packages on AVID. We are looking for reporters with a passion for storytelling, personality and the ability to provide in depth, insightful coverage of the issues facing the borough of Brooklyn. Our style is more NPR than NBC.

Reporters are paid on a per package basis, with packages ranging in length from 3-6 minutes.

How to Apply

Email resume and link to demo work: jobs@bricartsmedia.org. Subject line should read: "Freelance TV Reporter"

Mail resume and DVD to:
Production Manager
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
242 3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Associate Producer Youth, Arts, & Culture, Posted 05-02-2012

Job Description: Hands on and head first!  That’s what the Associate Producer we’re looking to hire should expect at Brooklyn Independent Television, a division of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn.  This is an opportunity to create media that focusses on the people who make our community one of the most dynamic art scenes in the world.  

BIT was officially launched by BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn in 2006 in response to strong public demand for more top quality Brooklyn-focused television programming. This innovative local television initiative serves the people of Brooklyn by providing the only in-depth non-commercial television coverage of this fantastically diverse borough.

Reporting to a Senior Producer, the Associate Producer will take part in every aspect of the programs he or she helps to create, from pitching a story to postproduction.  Those programs primarily cover art, culture, and youth media in the borough, but may include other content areas as well.

Duties include:

• Develop and pitch ideas for BIT segments; participate in staff meetings to coordinate story material and approach;
• Research stories;
• Coordinate and direct camera shoots with BRIC staff, freelancers and community producers, both in the studio and in the field;
• Edit television segments using AVID Media Composer or other non-linear edit software, incorporating graphic elements;
• Produce high-quality video segments independently; 
• On-camera reporting may be required;
• Manage tape library and fulfill dub requests;
• Mentor community producers, interns and volunteers throughout the production process.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Communications, Television, Broadcast Journalism, or related field;
• Knowledge of Brooklyn arts and culture community;
• Two years experience in video production, or an equivalent body of work; 
• Ability to motivate a team with varied levels of television production skills;
• Motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal skills; 
• Experience with non-linear editing
• Familiarity with public access television is a plus.

Salary, Benefits and Schedule

• $32,550 plus full benefits package
• Regular schedule Mon-Fri 10-6, occasional evening and weekend assignments/li>
• This position is part of a NABET collective bargaining agreement

How to apply

To apply send cover letter and resume to: jobs@bricartsmedia.org. In the subject line, please write Associate Producer, Youth, Arts and Culture.

BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn is an equal opportunity employer.

Note: No telephone calls for position inquiries please. Please see instructions for application provided with each posting.