Program Director

Position Title: Program Director 

Reports To: Executive Director 

Location: Hybrid (Remote x In-Person in Staten Island, NYC)

Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt

POSITION SUMMARY

Staten Island Arts seeks an energetic, self-starting, event planning, program developing leader to join our senior leadership team as Program Director!

The Program Director will be responsible for the strategic vision, operational oversight, delivery, and continuous improvement of Staten Island Arts’ (SIA) programmatic initiatives, public events, community commissions, and community-based partnerships. Partnering closely with Executive Leadership and Deputy Director, the Program Director will build and lead a multi-disciplinary team, cultivate external partner relationships, oversee multiyear program calendars, manage departmental budgets, and align all programming with SIA's mission.

WHO IS STATEN ISLAND ARTS?
Founded just over 30 years ago as a grassroots organization of artists, Staten Island Arts (legal name: The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island) serves as Staten Island’s Borough Arts Council. We serve Staten Island’s cultural community through programs that highlight local artists and build audiences for their work; and encourage cultural production by providing technical/skill, financial, and social capacity building resources.  Actualizing our mission of “fostering arts, community, and culture from shore to shore”, Staten Island Arts (SIA) Programs include Regrants, Arts Education, Professional Development and Technical Assistance (PD/TA), and Community Programs. More information on our current and past programming can be found here.

All we do is guided by our Core Values:

• Anti-Oppression: Staten Island Arts acknowledges that the systems we operate in are inherently inequitable and oppressive to historically under-resourced and marginalized populations. We commit to using anti-oppression as a lens through which all of our work will be done - both internally and with Staten Island’s communities. 
• Artists: Staten Island artists are unique. We are home to a pulsing cultural community striving for visibility, connection, support, and places to create and show work. We see you, and we value you. 
• Culture: We are not arbiters of culture, but co-creators of it. 
• Advocacy: We recognize it as our privilege and our responsibility to serve as advocates for and to the cultural life of the borough. 
• Partnership: There is nothing Staten Island Arts accomplishes alone. 
• Community: We are committed to collectivism. We will actively go into the spaces where art happens across Staten Island, as stewards of cultural resources.

Please visit our website to view the full job description and how to apply!