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Position Available - YO-TV Program Director @ Educational Video Center

EVC seeks a Program Director for Youth Organizers Television (YO-TV), a paid ten-month internship program through which youth media-makers produce a documentary commissioned by a professional client. The YO-TV Program Director serves as instructor to the crew of youth producers, oversees all aspects of the documentary production, and manages all aspects of the program including grant proposal development and project budgeting. This position is four days per week and is offered on a ten-month contract (running from October thru July) with the possibility for contract renewal. Past YO-TV documentaries have been screened at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and broadcast nationally on Bill Moyers' PBS series.

Qualifications:
B.A. and minimum 3 years experience as an educator, with particular experience teaching documentary video production to youth;
Strong demonstrated experience in management of youth programs, including experience with budgets and grant proposals;
Exceptional leadership skills, group facilitation skills, and written & oral communication skills;
Broad experience with professional quality video production and non-linear post-production editing capabilities including proficiency in Final Cut Pro;
Knowledge of media literacy and commitment to the use of media as a tool for social change and as means to develop the literacy and leadership skills of young people;
Commitment to and ability to employ the EVC mission and methodology, as founded upon a student-centered and inquiry-based approach to a hands-on learning;
Passion for teaching, for documentary video production, & for activism around social issues.

Salary/Hours:
Commensurate with experience.

Deadline:
September 1st, 2003

Contact Information:
Timothy Dorsey, EVC, 120 West 30th Street, NY, NY 10001. E-mail: tdorsey@evc.org. Fax: 212.465.9369.