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Employment

Now Hiring: Summer 2024 Oxbow Teaching & Residential Life Fellow

03/05/24

NOW HIRING: Summer 2024 Oxbow Teaching & Residential Life Fellow

STIPEND: $3,500 + housing and meals

The Oxbow School seeks to hire a dynamic, collaborative, forward-thinking Teaching & Residential Life Fellow. The Oxbow School welcomes lifelong learners. Prospective colleagues should embrace working with administrative staff and students who possess a range of abilities, talents and learning styles.

THE OXBOW SCHOOL. The Oxbow School is a one-semester visual arts program for sophomores, juniors, seniors, and gap semester students from public and independent high schools nationwide. The school offers forty-two students a unique educational experience focused on the in-depth study and practice of the visual arts. The Oxbow Summer Art Institute encourages motivated students to pursue a serious interest in art. Through work in the studio/classroom, trips to art venues, and lectures with Visiting Artists, Oxbow provides students with direct exposure to the richness and diversity of contemporary art. Our goal is not to produce career artists, but to empower students to see with clarity and become active participants in the world. The Oxbow School is founded on the belief that engagement with the arts fosters and supports flexible thinking skills that are particularly valuable in today's increasingly complex global community.

The Teaching/Residential Life Fellow is a 6-week position in Summer 2024 for a recent college graduate interested in working with adolescents in a residential environment. The main responsibilities lie in general student supervision and the residential life experience on campus. Fellows have the opportunity to either design and teach their own short electives courses or alternatively assist in an existing elective course. The Fellow will live in an apartment adjacent to the dorms to assist in organizing community activities and being an additional adult presence on campus for student life issues that may arise. The person who best fits this role is someone who is mature, has strong interpersonal skills, is genuinely invested in the welfare of adolescents, and possesses an infectious enthusiasm for The Oxbow School program.

Fellow start date: 6/16/24

Fellow departure date: 8/9/24

RESPONSIBILITIES.

  • Work closely with the faculty on a daily basis

  • Drive students to and from campus for appointments and miscellaneous outings

  • Lead an elective activity

  • Lead and participate in community building activities throughout the summer

  • Participate in field trips and co-programming activities

  • Rotate through weekly studio and dorm duties

  • Assist students with daily dorm life issues

  • Provide social-emotional support for students

  • Lead and meet weekly with advisory cohort (write student review letters at the end of summer)

  • Other responsibilities as assigned


Interested candidates should email a resume and cover letter to: Jules Johnston, Director of the Oxbow Summer Art Institute, at jjohnston@oxbowschool.org. No phone calls please.

The Oxbow School is an equal opportunity employer.

    Oxbow School is one of the preeminent choices for creative high school students interested in the arts. Their project-based, integrated approach to learning mirrors the approach of many top art schools. At California College of the Arts, we are thrilled to see applicants who have attended Oxbow because we know they are well prepared for the rigors of college level work. I wish there had been an Oxbow School when I was a high school student!

    — Stephen Beal, President, California College of the Arts

    In the year leading up to Oxbow, I became obsessed with the program, I was entranced with reading testimonials and researching interdisciplinary learning styles. When I arrived at Oxbow I was never disappointed, despite my endless expectations. I will forever cherish the time I spent at Oxbow and the connections I made there. Through Oxbow I was able to hone into the ideas I was thinking about, to refine my artistic process and to see the world in a new light every day of my life. I'm not going to say that without Oxbow I wouldn't be the person I am today, but I will say that without Oxbow it would have taken me at least four years to become who I am after one Oxbow semester.

    — Phoebe Dubisch, Fall 2018

    If at any point Oxbow doubts the good it does, I just want to reassure you all that you’re changing the lives of young artists every semester.

    — Colin Davis, Fall 2009

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