General Applicant Pool: Part-Time Afterschool Roles (Brooklyn)
About this role
✨ To spark creativity
🎭 To foster confidence
🎨 To build critical skills
🎶 And most importantly, to ensure that every student—regardless of background—has access to high-quality arts education.
This specific job requisition is our Fall Centralized General Applicant Pool for our Afterschool Programs. Applications submitted here are actively reviewed by Program Directors, Coordinators, and/or members of site hiring teams across our 18 school-based afterschool sites in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan.
Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP) is a collective of bold, passionate, and curious humans who believe in the power of the arts and the power of young people. We’re dreamers and doers. Visionaries and teammates. We laugh, we collaborate, we grow together—because at the heart of our work is a commitment to community and connection.
- 🎯 Our Goals: We collaborate with purpose and hold ourselves accountable. We reflect, learn, and celebrate big and small wins.
- 🧑🏽🤝🧑🏽 Our Peers: We listen deeply, communicate clearly, and support each other with compassion. Feedback is a gift—and we give and receive it with care.
- 🏛 Our Space: We show up honestly, trust each other boldly, and respect each other’s needs. We strive to create spaces that feel safe, empowering, and joyful.
- 🌎 Our Community: We are inclusive by design and equity-driven by nature. We amplify the voices of youth and honor the diversity of the communities we serve.
Hourly rates within each range are commensurate with experience.
- 🧩 Teaching Artist ($30.00 - $50.00 / hour): Experienced classroom creatives who design and lead culturally responsive, art-focused workshops that integrate arts and academic learning to spark youth creativity and self-expression.
- 🍎 Activity Specialist ($22.00 - $30.00 / hour): Creative lead instructors who design and facilitate hands-on, specialized clubs (such as STEM, chess, culinary arts, fashion, or athletics) that fuse arts with academic learning.
- 📦 Group Leader ($18.00 - $21.00 / hour): Reliable and energetic mentors who model positive behavior, ensure participant safety, and support daily program operations by helping to facilitate academically aligned arts, sports, or STEM instruction.
Whether you’re a classroom magician, a sports superhero, or a fine arts specialist—there’s a place for you here in our afterschool community.
Company at a glance
LeAp is a leading innovator in educational programs and services and one of the premiere arts-in-education programs in New York City. Since 1977 LeAp has helped over two million students reach their full potential academically, artistically, and socially. In the last six years, LeAp has received numerous federal grants to study the impact of using our arts-based strategies to improve student performance on students' literacy skills. The results have been extraordinary, as students in our programs continue to excel in subsequent years. LeAp's programs promote cognitive, social, and emotional development in students of all ages and abilities.
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