Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

Global Kids' Online Leadership Program, now in its seventh year, is about to experience significant growth in a number of areas with the hiring of eight additional staff members.

PDFs for each position, along with a description and position status, can be viewed below. Information about applying can ONLY be found within the PDFs. Job-related questions may be asked in the comment box associated with this post.

If you wish to apply to more than one position, please respond to each position separately.

Positions and application material:

Online Leadership Program Associate (Video Specialist)
Status: Position open
Application material

The video specialist will split his/her time between two programs. The first is Global Kids’ successful two-day a week machinima program, held at the Museum of the Moving Image, called the Virtual Video Project, developed in collaboration with the museum staff. The specialist will collaborate with OLP staff to manage a year long curriculum to develop the necessary global awareness, leadership and digital literacy skills to create a series of Second Life-based machinima, about digital media and global issues. Specifically, the specialist will be responsible for bringing her or his knowledge of film making techniques, such as storyboarding, editing, and plotting and adapting those to the virtual world of Second Life.

Online Leadership Program Associate (Foundation Programs in Second Life Producer)
Status: Position open
Application material

The position will entail bringing the subject areas of a major national foundation into Teen Second Life, the 3D virtual world for 13-17 year olds, including such topics as juvenile justice, human migration, and the environment. Equal focus will be split between working with the foundation’s departments to understand how a virtual world can be used for educational purposes and developing and running such activities within Second Life. In addition, this position will share responsibility for an after school program bringing marginalized teens from around New York City into Second Life to participate in the development and running of these activities.

Online Leadership Program Associate (Gaming and Social Networks Specialist)
Status: Position open
Application material

This is a part-time position within Global Kids’ Playing 4 Keeps (P4K) program, a successful after school game development program funded by the Microsoft Corporation. The position is responsible for collaborating with other staff to develop and facilitated the after school program and liaison with the funder. In the first year of the program P4k collaborated with GameLab to develop Ayiti: The Cost of Life, a fun and challenging web-based game about poverty as an obstacle to education in Haiti. The second year, just now concluding, has worked with three groups of teens to create a game in Teen Second Life about the history of prison medical research of African American males. Both programs were based in a high school in Brooklyn. P4K, in its third year, will be placed at a new school and the game development platform is still under discussion. This candidate is strongly encouraged to express interest and display the capabilities for working fulltime at Global Kids by filling an upcoming part-time position at Global Kids as the Social Networking Specialist. More specifically, Global Kids is anticipating September funding for the development of a social networking site for teens passionate in creating, sharing and thinking critically about the roles digital media play in their lives.

Online Leadership Program Associates (YouthVenture Program Manager and YouthVenture Program Associate)
Status: Position open
Application material

These positions, supported through funds by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, are integral to a new partnership with YouthVentures. YouthVentures supports groups of teens to develop social enterprises. A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs assess their success in terms of the impact they have on society. The specific focus of these YouthVenture teams will be health and issues related to health care. The location where teams will be recruited and trained is within Teen Second Life, the 3D virtual world for 13-17 year olds.

Online Leadership Program Assistant
Status: Position open
Application material

The assistant will join GK's rapidly expanding Online Leadership Program (OLP) in New York City, where the position will be based. GK’s work in TSL is on the cutting-edge of developing best practices in applying global youth development practices and educational in virtual worlds. The assistant will support the Online Leadership Director and other OLP staff as the OLP program staff grows from three to eleven, being involved with tasks from the mundane to the sublime.

Online Leadership Program Associate (floater)
Status: Offer pending; applications closed

Online Leadership Program Associate (Web 2.0 Specialist)
Status: Offer pending; applications closed

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