Art Employment Coach - Employment Specialist

Center for Creative Works (CCW), a Progressive Art Studio program, seeks a full time, Employment Specialist to work with our programs in Wynnewood and Philadelphia . We are a studio art program for neuro diverse artists, dedicated to the highest quality of work possible for the artists in this studio. CCW also engages the broader arts community through residencies, workshops, and other forms of collaboration and programming. Our studio provides materials and equipment for a wide range of artistic mediums as well as promotion and marketing for our artists.

The Employment Specialist CCW Employment Specialist provides direct vocational assessment, job development, and job coaching services to participants who are interested in self employment as artists and makers. The Employment Specialist will use their skills as artists to identify needed supports to overcome barriers, for our artists, to building their platform as a self employed artist. This includes assisting in skill building, strategic planning with the individual, and guiding in all aspects of building their business as an artist or maker.  Employment Specialists at CCW work with individual artists with intellectual disabilities to build their small business as fine artists, artisans, or in any direction identified by the artist. This may mean identifying a product, inventory creation, quality control of production, sales platform (website, social media etc), assisting artists in understanding sales and revenue, and working with them to create and identify opportunities to sell work.

You will also be a part of a highly creative and dynamic team of unique thinkers, artists, and community focused staff working in an active art studio. You will have an opportunity to contribute on many levels to the growth of this program and our artists! Our team is passionate, inclusive and talented.

Join us!

What’s exciting about this position :

• You will be working in a very unique  program advocating for and assisting talented artists with intellectual disabilities in building their careers.
• You will have plenty of opportunity to contribute and build experience on many levels as you will be an integral part in the building of this new organization.
• You will be a part of a highly creative and dynamic team of artists, and community focused staff and have an opportunity to contribute on many levels to the growth of this program and of our artists.

What’s you’ll love here :

If you are interested in progressive, engaged  thinking around identity, work options, creative contribution and contributing to inclusivity, we may be a match for you. If you believe that everyone has something to offer ,and  neuro-diversity adds to the richness of our communities and should be celebrated, you will feel at home here.

CCW offers full benefits which include health, life, dental insurances, PTO package,  and more.  Join us!

Essential Duties and Functions :

Administration :

CCW’s Employment Specialist is focused on Development and Coaching of artists in their work as self-employed artists. In addition to job duties listed above, job duties also include :

Qualifications :