Summer Teaching Assistant (Paid)
Type: Part-Time Employee (Summer)
Term: June 10, 2024 - August 16, 2024 (10 weeks)
Time Commitment: 20 hours/week
Compensation: $25 per hour (est. total $5,000)
Location: Hybrid* (one day in Novelly’s office in San Francisco)
*We’re open to changing this to a fully remote position for the right candidate.
What is the role of the Teaching Assistant at Novelly?
Novelly’s youth authorship program, the Rising Voices Collective, is a two-part creative writing and publishing program for talented and underrepresented youth writers aged 14-19 from around the United States. The Teaching Assistant (TA) is the most important part of the youth authors' experience in Part 1 of the program.
During the summer creative writing intensive (Part 1), writers attend weekly 30-minute 1:1 coaching sessions with the TA and participate in regular writing sessions, community-building, discussion sections, and lessons with their cohort led by the TA. The summer program culminates in each of the students publishing a 5,000+ word novella, and our alumni have told us consistently that their TA is the reason they were able to finish.
The Teaching Assistant is involved only in the summer program and their work will take place in 3 phases. From June 10 to July 5 (Phase I), they will co-design the curriculum for the summer creative writing intensive with Novelly’s Managing Director. From July 8 to August 2 (Phase II), they will execute the summer creative writing intensive and oversee 5 youth authors with Novelly’s Managing Director. From August 5 to August 16 (Phase III), they will evaluate and improve the program materials with Novelly’s Managing Director.
What are the expectations of the Teaching Assistant?
At Novelly, the Teaching Assistant is responsible for shepherding young authors through this rigorous summer creative writing program so they can experience the joy and pride of having their finished e-book published and taught in schools. Your responsibilities include:
- Become a Novelly ambassador → understand & protect Novelly’s mission, vision, & values.
- Be an active, engaged team member → participate in conversations, offer thoughtful feedback, prepare in advance for meetings, and respect your colleagues’ and students’ time.
- Host weekly 1:1 coaching and mentorship meetings (30 min) with 5 young writers.
- Host weekly group discussions using Novelly’s curriculum
- Host weekly writing sessions using Novelly’s curriculum
- Edit each student’s weekly writing submissions and offer constructive feedback using Novelly’s curriculum
- Give a final presentation to your supervisor in late August about your cohort’s collective experience and your recommendations for future iterations of the program.
- Update the transition guide and training for the program’s future Teaching Assistant.
The TA is involved only in Part 1 and will be provided the curriculum. They are not responsible for creating curriculum, but they will be asked for recommendations to improve it.
What are the requirements?
If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but 100% up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way. You’d be great for this role if:
- You’re energized by the idea of blazing new trails in the English Language Arts (ELA) education space.
- You’re passionate about Novelly’s mission to get student writing into ELA classrooms.
- You believe in the importance of optimism, ambition, rest, healing, and celebration.
- You’re an active writer with informal and/or formal creative writing education.
- You're passionate about addressing injustice and creating a better world through creative writing.
- You have experience mentoring youth, facilitating collaboration, and/or editing fiction.
- Pass a Livescan fingerprint background check
Novelly is a fiscally sponsored project of the 501(c)(3) public charity Independent Arts &Media (IAM). All employees of Novelly are employees of IAM, and subject to all IAM policies and procedures.
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Summer Teaching Assistant (Paid)
