wayne art center

2025 Summer Art Camp Intern

Wayne Art Center is looking for an enthusiastic Summer Art Camp Intern to assist with the daily operations of our busy 11-week Summer Art Camp program, and a culinary intern to assist with culinary classes.

Classroom duties (General and Culinary Intern):

• Ensure teachers have enough volunteer help in classroom or kitchen.
• Assist teachers with set-up as necessary including chef(s) in kitchen.
• Prepare and organize studios or kitchen for the following camp week.
• Continuously make sure studios, hallways and paper area in staff kitchen are clean and organized.
• Check on classrooms periodically to ensure teachers have sufficient supplies and sufficient volunteer help.
• Assist students with lessons as needed.
• Monitor snack break times in children’s garden.

–     Ensure classroom volunteers know which students will be going to lunch bunch.

–     Ensure all campers get safely from morning classes to lunch bunch and to afternoon classes from lunch bunch.

–     Monitor lunch bunch campers.

• Ensure all campers have left classrooms/kitchen at the end of the day. If parents are late, bring campers outside of the main office until pick up.
• Make sure chairs, tables, floors and window ledges of studios/kitchen are free of clutter or personal items.
• Close and lock studio windows and doors at the end of the day.

Administrative duties (General Intern):

-Assist with Monday check-in.

-Print attendance sheets from registration system and add attendance sheets to classroom binders.

-Assist with the design of poster, flyers, signage and digital communications as well as projects for social media and general promotions.

-Process t-shirt reports and organize and distribute camp t-shirts accordingly.

-Check for student allergies on Epact medical records system. Add medical alerts to classroom rosters.

-Help inventory classroom supplies.

Miscellaneous Duties (General Intern):

-Keep supply closets clean and organized.

-Refill classroom art materials.

-Wash and fold kitchen aprons and towels. Gather at the end of each day and start in          washing machine (culinary Intern).

-Make sure children’s garden is free of trash.

Competencies:

-Excellent verbal, written communication skills and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with students, parents and teachers.

-Excellent problem solving skills, flexibility, creative thinking and ability to bring problems to a successful resolution.

-Computer proficiency, including experience with Microsoft Office. An aptitude for technology and ability to learn other platforms as needed.

-Ability to exercise sound judgement, maintain a high degree of confidentiality and ability to identify and avoid conflicts of interest.

-Appropriate and professional behavior dealing with staff, faculty, students and volunteers.

-Strong project management skills, highly organized with attention to detail.

-Self-directed style, ability to work independently, proactively and efficiently with only moderate direction or supervision. Effectively follows through on assignments

-Take ownership of issues and action items.

-Flexible, open to input and changes, comfortable with the unexpected.

-Excellent customer service ethic and high expectations for quality.

-Flexible schedule with ability to work before or after camp hours.

-Willingness and availability to substitute teach when necessary.

-Experience working with children necessary.

-Experience in the visual arts preferred.

Submissions:

-Please email cover letter and resume to nancy@wayneart.org