About the Role
Concorde Education is seeking independent instructional contractors to provide traditional visual art enrichment services for K–12 students. This is a potential independent contractor assignment, not an employee position. Contractors may choose whether to apply for, accept, decline, or ignore available opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Plan and facilitate engaging, age-appropriate traditional art sessions
- Introduce students to foundational and intermediate visual art concepts through hands-on creative projects
- Adapt activities based on student experience levels, site requirements, available materials, and program objectives
- Support students in creating drawings, paintings, mixed-media artwork, illustrations, portfolios, or other creative projects, where applicable
- Maintain a safe, respectful, inclusive, and age-appropriate learning environment
- Communicate assignment-related needs or significant concerns with Concorde and school staff, as appropriate
- Complete a brief session completion form after each scheduled session
- Follow applicable site safety, visitor, classroom, emergency, and student-protection procedures
Requirements
- At least 60 college credits, where required by the applicable assignment or site
- Experience with traditional visual art, drawing, painting, illustration, mixed media, fine arts, or related artistic disciplines
- Experience teaching, tutoring, coaching, mentoring, or leading activities with school-age students
- Strong communication, organization, and classroom facilitation skills
- Availability to provide services for the accepted assignment schedule and communicate schedule issues as soon as reasonably practicable
- Ability to demonstrate artistic techniques while fostering creativity, confidence, and skill development
- Applicants selected to move forward may be invited to create a contractor profile and complete any required onboarding steps
- Some assignments may require background-check authorization, fingerprinting, agency clearance, site-specific documentation, identification badges, or other compliance steps before services may begin
- Applicants should not provide criminal-history information unless and until requested through the appropriate legally compliant process
Skills
- Traditional visual art
- Drawing
- Painting
- Illustration
- Mixed media
- Fine arts
- Artistic disciplines
- Teaching
- Tutoring
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Leading activities with school-age students
- Communication
- Organization
- Classroom facilitation
- Artistic techniques
- Creativity
- Confidence
- Skill development
- Studio routines
- Art-material safety
- Responsible classroom practices
- Elements of art
- Principles of design
- Line
- Shape
- Color
- Value
- Texture
- Space
- Composition
- Color theory
- Color mixing
- Contrast
- Drawing techniques
- Observation
- Contour
- Proportion
- Perspective
- Sketching
- Shading
- Rendering techniques
- Painting techniques
- Mixed-media projects
- Collage
- Ink
- Charcoal
- Pastels
- Visual storytelling
- Creative expression
- Critique
- Portfolio development
- Artistic problem-solving
- Design thinking
Location
- On-site at partner schools; varies by assignment
Work Type
- Independent contractor
- In Person
- After school
Experience Level
- Varies by assignment scope, experience, location, schedule, and agreed compensation
Education Level
- At least 60 college credits
Salary/Compensations
- $50+ per completed instructional service hour
- $50+ per completed instructional service hour with students
About the Company
- Concorde Education is seeking independent instructional contractors to provide traditional visual art enrichment services for K–12 students.
Equal Opportunity
- Concorde Education considers contractor applicants without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law and is committed to respectful, inclusive, and student-centered programming.
