Associate Director of Education

The Associate Director of Education supports our student playwrights, collaborating professional artists, teaching artists, and classroom teachers. The ADOE is the lead program administrator for our Playwriting Program, organizes and contributes regularly to our curricular resources, helps to conceptualize and administer PYP’s professional development, participates in our annual literary committee process as a reader and Section Head, stewards 2-3 seasonal interns annually, serves as a teaching artist, both in and out of classrooms, and participates in department-wide planning conversations and management.

• Lead program administrator for PYP’s Playwriting Program, which serves 40‑45 schools annually and thousands of students throughout Philadelphia, resulting in 500+ new plays submitted to our Annual Playwriting Festival each year. Day‑to‑day tasks include tracking and synthesizing program data and teaching artist reports; organizing and administering teaching artist contracts, tracking and synthesizing annual assessment data from teachers, teaching artists, and students;
  
  regular communication with our teaching artists and teachers; assisting in the creation of curricular materials and multimedia for classroom use; assisting in the planning and execution of outreach to schools, students, and parents to promote our programs; assisting in the curation and facilitation of annual professional development sessions, as well as tracking teaching artists’ attendance and related stipends; regularly updating teaching artist clearances and contacts, and tracking compliance;
  
  coordinating with teachers to book in‑school and out‑of‑school performances; sharing media and qualitative data from classrooms with development and communications staff; and visiting schools to conduct site visits/observe workshops.
• Periodic conceptual partner and administrative lead for Out‑of‑School Programs and Special Projects. Alongside the Director of Education, collaborating with community partners on goals, curriculum, and outcomes; assisting in student outreach and registration efforts; stewarding playwrights and families throughout the process; providing day‑to‑day administrative support as needed.
• Serve as a lead teaching artist in at least two classrooms annually; lend in‑person support for additional classrooms as a guest teaching artist and/or classroom actor in feedback sessions with student playwrights as needed.
• Daily supervision of 2‑3 seasonal high school and/or college interns, which includes monitoring schedules and projects, advancing learning goals, and completing intern evaluations.
• Opportunities to serve in artistic roles (actor, director, dramaturg, designer) and/or teaching artist roles on productions and special projects as assigned and as qualified.

• Read, recommend, and help others respond to approximately 150 plays submitted to our Annual Playwriting Festival.
• Serve as the Committee Chair for a pre‑final committee of the Annual Playwriting Festival, which includes reading all recommended scripts and stewarding the committee through an adjudication process to determine winners.

Fun and creative work environment. The ideal candidate is deeply passionate about serving educators and students in the Philadelphia School District and throughout the Philadelphia metro area; is excited about organizing data and other mindful administrative needs in a fast‑paced, busy work environment; and firmly believes in the transformative power of the arts to improve students, teachers, schools, and communities. Strong verbal and digital communications skills, and computer literacy, are required.

A passion for theater is required. This job requires attention to detail and a passion for organization and administrative work that helps our teaching artists and students work shine.

Salary is set at $47,300 plus benefits. Some evening and Saturday hours are required to be a staff presence at productions and out‑of‑school time programs. PYP currently operates on a hybrid work schedule with some remote work days available as an option. Tuesdays are a required in‑person day.

Additional benefits include: generous PTO policy, health benefits, IRA retirement plan offered, with company match after 90 days, life insurance, Septa Key Commuter benefit and Cura Linc Employee Assistance Program. Additional voluntary insurance is available through Aflac.