Arts Education Manager
Aster Digital Health, India · United Arab Emirates
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Our teams collaborate across education, arts, culture, programming, operations, marketing, partnerships, and technology to create inclusive and impactful learning experiences for diverse audiences.The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Arts Education Manager to lead the planning, development, delivery, and continuous improvement of arts education programs across visual arts, performing arts, music, creative practice, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary learning.The ideal candidate will manage educational programs for children, young people, adults, educators, families, schools, communities, and professional learners while building strong relationships with artists, teaching professionals, cultural organizations, schools, and community partners.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop and implement an arts education strategy aligned with organizational goals and community needs.Design and manage arts education programs across visual arts, music, theatre, dance, media arts, creative writing, and interdisciplinary disciplines.Conduct audience and community needs assessments to identify education priorities and emerging opportunities.Develop annual program plans, learning objectives, schedules, budgets, and delivery models.Create accessible learning opportunities for different ages, abilities, experience levels, and cultural backgrounds.Manage workshops, classes, courses, lectures, artist talks, residencies, camps, school programs, and community initiatives.Develop programs for schools, families, youth, adults, educators, and underserved communities.Coordinate curriculum and lesson-plan development with artists, educators, teaching artists, and subject-matter specialists.Establish appropriate learning outcomes, teaching methods, assessment approaches, and program standards.Ensure educational content is engaging, culturally relevant, age appropriate, and aligned with program objectives.Recruit, onboard, schedule, and manage teaching artists, instructors, facilitators, guest speakers, and education partners.Establish instructor requirements, teaching standards, performance expectations, and quality-assurance processes.Provide training, coaching, resources, and professional development for teaching staff.Develop partnerships with schools, universities, museums, galleries, cultural organizations, community groups, and creative institutions.Manage school outreach and educational partnership programs.Coordinate artist-in-residence and visiting-artist education initiatives.Develop community engagement programs that increase participation in arts and cultural activities.Coordinate educational events, exhibitions, performances, showcases, festivals, and public programs.Manage program registration, enrollment, attendance, participant communications, and scheduling.Establish participant support processes covering accessibility, safeguarding, inclusion, and learning needs.Ensure programs comply with applicable education, safety, safeguarding, accessibility, copyright, and cultural requirements.Develop educational resources, teaching materials, digital content, activity guides, and supporting learning materials.Support online, hybrid, and technology-enabled arts education programs.Evaluate and implement digital learning platforms and educational technologies where appropriate.Manage program budgets, staffing costs, artist fees, materials, facilities, equipment, and external services.Monitor program profitability, cost efficiency, funding requirements, and resource utilization.Support grant applications, sponsorship proposals, fundraising initiatives, and externally funded education programs.Build relationships with donors, sponsors, foundations, government entities, and cultural partners.Develop marketing and outreach plans with communications and audience-development teams.Monitor participation trends and develop initiatives to reach new audiences and communities.Collect participant, educator, artist, school, and partner feedback to improve program quality.Establish evaluation frameworks to measure educational, artistic, social, and community impact.Analyze participation, engagement, retention, satisfaction, learning outcomes, and program performance data.Identify opportunities for innovation, collaboration, curriculum improvement, and program expansion.Maintain program documentation, curriculum records, instructor information, partnership agreements, attendance records, and evaluation reports.Manage external education providers, suppliers, venues, artists, and service partners.Resolve operational, scheduling, participant, instructor, and program-delivery issues.Provide leadership with regular reports covering program performance, participation, budgets, risks, outcomes, and improvement opportunities.Key Performance IndicatorsProgram enrollment and participationParticipant retention and completionClass and workshop attendanceProgram capacity utilizationParticipant satisfactionLearning outcome achievementEducator and instructor satisfactionSchool and partner satisfactionCommunity participationAudience growthParticipation from underserved groupsAccessibility and inclusion performanceProgram delivery qualityInstructor performanceCurriculum review and update completionProgram launch performanceEvent attendanceRepeat participationDigital learning engagementCost per participantProgram budget adherenceRevenue and funding performanceGrant and sponsorship successPartnership growthEducational resource utilizationProgram evaluation completionSafety and safeguarding complianceIncident resolution timeStaff and instructor training completionContinuous improvement initiativesDemonstrated community and educational impactIdeal CandidateThe successful candidate should have strong experience in arts education, cultural programming, education management, community arts, museum education, creative learning, or arts administration, preferably within museums, galleries, cultural institutions, schools, universities, performing arts organizations, foundations, or community-based arts programs.The candidate should demonstrate:Strong understanding of arts education principles and creative learning methodologies.Experience designing and managing arts education programs for diverse audiences.Experience working with teaching artists, educators, artists, cultural practitioners, and community partners.Strong curriculum development and program-design capabilities.Excellent project-management, organizational, and scheduling skills.Understanding of educational assessment, program evaluation, and learning outcomes.Strong knowledge of accessibility, inclusion, safeguarding, and culturally responsive education.Experience developing school, community, institutional, or cultural partnerships.Strong budget-management and resource-planning skills.Experience managing instructors, contractors, vendors, and external partners.Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management abilities.Ability to manage multiple programs, priorities, deadlines, and audiences simultaneously.Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.Familiarity with digital learning platforms and technology-enabled education.Experience developing funding proposals, grants, sponsorships, or partnership initiatives is highly desirable.Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.Additional languages and international or cross-cultural experience are highly desirable.A strong commitment to creativity, inclusion, lifelong learning, and community engagement.