Dance 4 Peace is now recruiting Part-Time PeaceMover Facilitators in Washington, DC and New York City for Fall 2011!
Dance 4 Peace (http://www.dance4peace.org) is an innovative, global nonprofit that uses dance to inspire youth to be leaders and peacemakers in their communities.
We are a fast-paced educational nonprofit that began in Bogota, Colombia during a dancer’s Fulbright Scholarship and now have programs in Colombia, Nepal, New York City, the Philippines, and Washington, DC. Our mission is to promote social and emotional learning skills in youth in a global context in order to prevent school violence and bullying and to build conflict resolution competencies and communities of peace.
Dance 4 Peace was recently awarded a Cordes Fellowship at the Opportunity Collaboration and named a Youth Leader by the Inter-American Development Bank. We are building a movement of intercultural exchange in peacebuilding and violence prevention through dance. Dance 4 Peace hubs share best practices in conflict resolution and social and emotional learning as part of the global PeaceMover network. Our program is creative, dynamic, completely movement-based and evaluated, and adaptable to specific cultures, communities and contexts. We envision a world where creative movement redefines how we build cultures of peace in schools.
We offer:
The ability to be trained on and implement a high-impact, innovative curriculum that is already defining the future of movement-based peace education
A fun, talented team that empowers you and values your feedback in helping shape our curriculum, our evaluations, and the organization
Stipend plus training
Responsibilities for Part-time PeaceMover Facilitators in Washington, DC and NYC:
Participate in two day training on Dance 4 Peace curriculum and implementation best practices in D.C. the weekend of September 17 and 18, 2011
Implement and evaluate 10 weekly Dance 4 Peace sessions (one hour each, at various DC and NYC school locations)
Compile, maintain and report program evaluation information on a weekly basis to assess strengths and areas for improvement
Qualifications:
Education, child or youth development background
Local student in the field pursuing a BA or advanced degree
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
Experience facilitating trainings and workshops and implementing activities
Understanding of inclusion and ability to translate inclusion in a variety of modalities and types of audiences
Desire to work on issues related to under-served communities
Application Procedure: Apply by sending an email tomove@dance4peace.orgwith subject line “DC or NYC PeaceMover - Your Name”, resume, and a letter to us describing why you want to make peace move in the classroom.