• Job Description

  Req#: 80741

  PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow invites applications for the position of Co:Laboratory Summer Camp Assistant. The Co:Laboratory Summer Camp Assistant provides additional support to PAM CUT’s summer youth camp instructors. This role will work closely with kids and teens ages 8 to 18 and assist the teaching artists with camp setups and other classroom needs. The Summer Camp Assistant will assist and monitor camp attendees, maintain a clean classroom and well organized art supplies and equipment.

  PAM CUT is the place to be for what’s new, now, next in multimedia storytelling. Kids and teens ages 8-18 learn from teaching artists and experts in their field to immerse themselves in media arts with a focus on the intersection of media art and design this summer. Camps take place Monday through Friday at PAM CUT’s headquarters June 17 - August 21 (9:00am -1:00pm and 1:30pm-5:30pm, with one 3-day camp on July 1 through 3, 9:00am-5:30pm.)

  Duties & Responsibilities

  • Assist with the setup and break down of classrooms, materials, and equipment
  • Maintain the cleanliness of classrooms and general facilities
  • Ensure campers are monitored with proper staff to camper ratios at all times
  • Uphold PAM CUT safety, security, and COVID-19 procedures
  • Communicate with parents/caregivers as needed
  • AssistTeaching Artists with the weekly end of camp presentation
  • Collaborate with Teaching Artists and PAM CUT staff to carry out shared ideas and resources for a successful camp experience
  • Work to create an inclusive and energetic environment to ensure a positive, safe, and inspiring experience for all campers
  • Assist Teaching Artists in a range of media arts programming, centered around design
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

  
  Supervisory Responsibilities

  • None

  
  Institutional Responsibilities

  • Support the Museum’s mission, vision and core values of creativity, connection, equity, learning, accessibility and accountability
  • Contribute to and support the Museum's strategic plan, annual priorities, and institutional initiatives such as diversity, equity, inclusion and access
  • Contribute to a positive organizational culture based on mutual respect, a spirit of collegiality, cooperation, and openness to many perspectives
  • Participate in a culture of ongoing learning, collaboration, innovation, creativity, and community engagement
  • Promote equity and inclusion goals and have a “people first” mindset

  Required Knowledge & Skills

  If you have any questions along the way including wanting to talk about a non traditional career background, please reach out to HR.

  • Passion for youth arts education and dedication to empowering youth to share their voice and perspectives
  • Work requires continual attention to detail
  • Strong leadership skills, specifically with respect to youth
  • Exercise good judgment in emergency situations and when working with varied personalities and backgrounds
  • Flexibility to assist Instructors by pivoting to implement new ways of teaching to best fit the situation
  • Work in a team environment with minimal supervision

  
  Education, Formal & Informal Experience, Training Required, Certification, Etc.

  • Introductory experience working with youth in camps, classrooms, or after-school settings
  • General familiarity and a level of comfort with technology
  • Experience in the media arts, ideally as they relate to animation in its many forms is preferred

  
  Job Conditions

  • Non-Exempt/Hourly
  • Temporary part time position with expected start date of June 10, 2024 and a end date of August 28, 2024
  • Schedule/Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 1:30pm or 1:00pm to 6:00pm, 25 hrs/week (4 hours for the camp, half hour before and after camp)
  • Onsite/Not Remote

  
  Physical Activities

  • Frequently lift/carry/push/pull up to 30 lbs
  • Frequently communicate with children and camp instructors
  • Frequently move about the camps
  • Continual visual check of the camp attendees
  • This is not a complete representation of all physical requirements
    

  Benefits

  • This role is non-exempt/part-time and with an estimated end date of August 28, 2024
  • Budgeted compensation is within pay grade B ($15.45 min - $17.37 mid - $19.29 max), depending on experience
  • Accrued sick time
  • Museum admission & lectures, programs, and gift shop discounts
    

• About the company

  The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it one of the oldest art museums on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the US.

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