Arts Assistant

Elite Girls' School
- Bayside Location
- 38 hours per week - Term Time plus 1 week

**Moreton Bay College **was established in 1901 as a school for girls from P-12 and now supports an enrolment in excess of 1100 students. With a focus on academic excellence, underpinned by a rich and caring pastoral program, MBC is the educational foundation for building perseverance, discovering courage and exploring creativity. With over 40 co-curricular activities to choose from,

MBC stretches beyond the classroom and offers girls the chance to explore their identities, while harnessing success. With 115 years of history, the College is well established with extensive libraries, sports, state-of-the-art music and performance centre, an Olympic sized swimming pool and a chapel. In 2014, the College completed a state-of-the-art Science Centre, featuring eight laboratories, a growth room and four experimental investigation rooms.

**THE POSITION**

The Arts Assistant will play a crucial role in assisting the Head of Department, the Director and Dance/Drama and staff of The Arts Department, to support the curricular and co-curricular programs at Moreton Bay College.

The successful applicant will work both independently and collaboratively with colleagues, as well as the broader school community.

This 38 hour per week position involves three aspects:

- working collaboratively within the Visual Art spaces with staff, students and guest artists
- administration for the curriculum and co-curriculum areas of Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art
- supporting the Dance and Drama programs with costuming, props and resource management
- Alternatively:_

Three Days a Week:

- administration for the curriculum and co-curriculum areas of Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art
- supporting the Dance and Drama programs with costuming, props and resource management

Two Days a Week:

- working collaboratively within the Visual Art spaces with staff, students and guest artists

The Arts Assistant is responsible in the first instance to the Head of Department - The Arts and ultimately to the Principal. All staff are employed by the CEO and Executive Principal.

All staff need to be supportive of the values, Christian ethos and Ethical Statement of this Uniting Church Day school for girls from Kindy to Year 12.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

Three Days a Week:

- It is expected that the Arts Assistant will assist The Arts Department:_
- with administration for the curriculum and co-curriculum areas of Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art
- with supporting the Dance and Drama programs with costuming, props and resource management
- with a wide range of administrative and practical support
- with administration tasks such as updating information in the Student Administration Systems (TASS), producing rolls, assisting teaching staff with risk assessments and excursions/incursions
- with planning and organisation of events, including ticketing, liaising with relevant staff of tasks such as marketing and venue bookings
- with maintenance, sorting and storage of costumes and facilitating parent helpers to assist with this
- to actively contribute to a safety citizenship culture upholding health and safety policies, procedures, hazard reporting and safe work practices

Two Days a Week:

- It is expected that the Arts Assistant will assist The Arts Department:_
- by working collaboratively within the Visual Art spaces with staff, students and guest artists
- by maintaining art room specific resources, tools and equipment
- The preparation of materials for practical classes, productions and events
- Practical assistance of staff within the classroom
- Supporting students within Art classrooms
- Displays of student work
- Material management including maintenance, purchasing requirements, stock control
- Manage records of expenditure, acquisition of equipment and stock.
- Assist in the management of exhibitions, installations and de-installations of work exhibited within the school and for the school art exhibition
- Assist in the curation of exhibitions as required
- Administration tasks as required, and
- Other tasks as required
- Actively contribute to a safety citizenship culture upholding health and safety policies, procedures, hazard reporting and safe work practices.

**SKILLS AND ABILITIES**
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required._
- A keen eye for visual presentation of art works
- A proactive and solutions-based mindset
- Commitment to your work and to the achievement of excellence
- Ability to work within a team
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff, students from Kindy - Year 12, parents and stakeholders
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work autonomously and operate as a resourceful team member in a collaborative inclusive manner
- Efficient and effective time management skills
- Ability to demonstrate IT competency in office software, and to learn to use de