Posted on July 5, 2012

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PeaceMover Facilitator

Dance 4 Peace is an innovative global nonprofit that prevents violence and bullying and transforms conflict in schools and communities through dance and creative movement. Our curriculum promotes empathy, mediation skills, anger management, and conflict transformation to instill social and emotional competencies for peace. Through school and community center partnerships, Dance 4 Peace connects communities in the United States in Baltimore, Newark, New York City and Washington DC and internationally in Colombia, Germany, and the Philippines to share intercultural stories of peace. Our vision is to ignite global social change through the art of movement, and as such both our curriculum and evaluation system are completely movement-based. To date, Dance 4 Peace has worked with over 5,089 youth in nine cities on four continents.

Dance 4 Peace was recently named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, a Youth Leader by the Inter-American Development Bank and awarded a Cordes Fellowship at the Opportunity Collaboration. We are building a movement of intercultural exchange in peacebuilding and violence prevention through dance. Dance 4 Peace hubs share best practices in conflict transformation and social and emotional learning as part of the global PeaceMover network. Our program is creative, dynamic, completely movement-based and evaluated, and adaptable to specific cultures, communities and contexts. We envision a world where creative movement redefines how we build cultures of peace in schools.

We offer:

• The ability to be trained on and implement a high-impact, innovative curriculum that is already defining the future of movement-based peace education
• A fun, talented team that empowers you and values your feedback in helping shape our curriculum, our evaluations, and the organization
• Stipend plus training

Responsibilities for Part-time PeaceMover Facilitators in Baltimore, Newark, Washington, DC and NYC:

• Participate in two day training on Dance 4 Peace curriculum and implementation best practices on September 22nd and 23rd.
• Implement and evaluate 10 weekly Dance 4 Peace sessions in at least one classroom (one hour each, at various Baltimore, DC, Newark, and NYC school locations)
• Active preparation for each session; including the review and understanding of curriculum before implementation
• Compile, maintain and report program evaluation information on a weekly basis to assess strengths and areas for improvement
• Active communication with school contacts including principals and classroom teachers throughout the semester.

Qualifications:

• Education, child or youth development background
• Local student in the field pursuing a BA or advanced degree
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience facilitating trainings and workshops and implementing activities
• Understanding of inclusion and ability to translate inclusion in a variety of modalities and types of audiences
• Desire to work on issues related to under-served communities

Application Instructions

Apply by sending an email to move@dance4peace.org by Aug 15th with subject line “DC, Baltimore, Newark, or NYC PeaceMover - Your Name”, resume, and a letter to us describing why you want to make peace move in the classroom.

Join our movement online:
www.dance4peace.org
www.facebook.com/dance4peace
www.twitter.com/dance4peacenow