• Implement and facilitate activities during Fun Friday, weekly 2-6 pm;
• Supervise MAP youth during free time and guest artist workshops on Fridays;
• Keep the Clubhouse facility clean and organized.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in education or theatre, or degree in process.
• Experience teaching groups of youth, especially elementary school-aged.
• Positive attitude and enthusiasm
• Initiative and self-direction
• Belief in the power of theatre arts
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills
• Punctuality and reliability
• Commitment to our mission of empowering youth through the arts

MAP’S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: The mission of The Manton Avenue Project is to unleash the creative voices and unique potential of children living in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, one of the city’s lowest income neighborhoods. Through The Manton Avenue Project (MAP), under-served children have the opportunity to discover their talents as they develop their playwriting skills and work one-on-one with professional theatre artists to create original theater. MAP believes that theatre is a specifically powerful vehicle for personal and social change. Through playmaking, we nurture each child’s capacity for success, helping them believe in the value of their own ideas and increasing their ability to navigate through life’s challenges. By respecting underserved kids’ ideas and presenting those ideas to public audiences, The Manton Avenue Project cultivates kids’ resilience and improve their self-efficacy, both indicators of Positive Youth Development that lead to long-term success in adulthood, including healthy relationships, community connections, and economic self-sufficiency. All of the work that we do engages lower-income children during out-of-school time and enhances their learning (of writing, logic, theatre and English, and depending on the programmatic theme, of social studies and science) through playwriting, mentorship and performance. By building kids’ artistic and problem solving skills, developing a sense of community in MAP kids’ lives, and strengthening their identities through self-expression, The Manton Avenue Project offers the supports and opportunities necessary for Positive Youth Development outcomes. Seeing their own plays presented on a public stage by adult actors passionately committed to the words and characters that these young people have created gives MAP students a great feeling of success and increased self-worth. Through the creation of new plays, MAP helps under-resourced children find the value of their voices and to reap the rewards of their hard work, namely the pride in their accomplishment and the uproarious applause of the audience.