Community Engagement Intern

Description

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is looking for a highly motivated intern to help our Community Engagement team. You would support Senior Program Manager of CE to implement YBCA's public programs such as monthly lecture series, Room for Big Ideas- a YBCA's community artists residency lab space featuring interactive multidisciplinary installations and projects, and Opening night events programming and management. Provide comprehensive administrative and logistical support for the various projects.

Development Intern
Department: Community Engagement
Status: Unpaid College Internship
Reports to: CE Director
Schedule: The Public Programs Intern would need to commit to 1-2 full days, or 3-4 afternoons a week
Goal: To learn & apply skills relating to presenting contemporary arts and arts education

Basic Responsibilities

  • Correspond with YBCA leadership and community members for project management
  • General administrative support for Sr. Program Manager, Community Engagement. (Includes data entry, mailings, filing, etc).
  • Assist with events in our curated spaces such as the galleries and Room for Big Ideas.
  • Work opening night parties & misc. cultivation events
  • Assisting with logistics and production of member events
  • Project managing/editing marketing and solicitation pieces for Development purposes

Minimum Requirements

  • Candidates must be enrolled in an accredited academic program and authorized by their school to participate in the internship
  • Excellent oral / written communication skills
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize
  • Working knowledge of Excel, power point, basic graphic layout programs, and video editing.
  • Self motivated, detail oriented and organized.
  • Willingness to work alongside contemporary works of art and performances which present challenging and provocative subject matter

Rewards

Interns will receive valuable real-world work experience and the potential opportunity to secure future employment. Where possible, YBCA will work with intern’s scholastic programs to give credit for hours worked, and Referrals / Letters of Recommendation will be given upon successful completion. Intern will gain valuable skills in how an institution like YBCA plans and executes public arts programs and events and learn how to deeply engage diverse communities and audiences. Intern will have the opportunity to meet and build relationships with artists and partnering community organizations.

How to Apply

In addition to your resume and cover letter, please include 2011 YBCA CE Intern in the subject line of your email to: jobs@ybca.org.

Please, no phone calls or faxes—really. While we love your enthusiasm, due to the volume of applications and our limited resources, we will respond only to applicants we intend to interview. If you receive our automated thank you, we have received your resume and there is no need to follow up.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is committed to diversity in its programming and in creating a work culture and environment that is reflective of San Francisco Bay Area demography. The Center encourages and actively recruits applicants representing dimensions of difference that include — but are not limited to — age, national origin, ethnicity, race, religion, ability, sexual orientation, gender or political affiliation.

About YBCA

Begun in 1986, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts was built by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, who supports the security, operations and maintenance of the facilities. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, YBCA was created to operate and program the facilities, and is responsible for raising funds through contributed and earned revenue for its artistic and educational programs. YBCA's two landmark buildings include Galleries, a flexible "Forum" space and film/video screening room designed by Fumihiko Maki, and the Novellus Theater designed by James Stewart Polshek. YBCA opened to international acclaim in October 1993.

From the ground up, YBCA was designed to embrace and celebrate a diversity of arts, cultures, and audiences. Created on the model of the European Kunsthalles, with no permanent art collection, YBCA bridges the seemingly contradictory worlds of pop culture, contemporary art, and community aesthetics. Exhibitions, performance, film/video, and community engagement programs are organized thematically in an effort to connect art and community life, and a host of community engagement programs each year connect audiences with art, artists and ideas.

Each year over a quarter of a million people attend one of hundreds of YBCA exhibitions, performances, screenings and community engagement programs. Major accomplishments include presenting and hosting the work of more than 2,200 visual, performing, and media artists (the largest percentage of who are Bay Area residents) and commissioning and presenting 125 world premiere exhibitions and performances.