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Venice Arts is Hiring!

Venice Arts' mission is to ignite youths' imagination, mentor their
creativity, and expand their sense of possibility through high
quality, accessible media-based arts education programs. Venice Arts
also serves as a catalyst for people of all ages, living in low-income
or underrepresented communities, to create and share personal and
community stories through photography, film, and multi-media.

Part-Time Media Arts Assistant

Venice Arts is seeking a part-time Media Arts Assistant. The Media
Arts Assistant duties and responsibilities include managing the
darkroom and digital labs; providing classroom support in the form of
set-up, breakdown, and equipment maintenance; assisting with youth
exhibits; assisting with Beyond MySpace (interactive, educational
website); helping to maintain the digital archive. This position is a
one-year, rotating, post-graduate Assistantship and is tentatively
scheduled to end June 30, 2011.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is a graduate of a photography, photojournalism,
or multi-media program with experience working in analog and
digitally. She or he must be extremely well-organized, detailed-
oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities. Must demonstrate a
high level of expertise with cameras, computers, and software, and
must be extremely comfortable with technology. Experience with tech-
based problem-solving and software installation, a plus.

How To Apply:
Email résumé with with cover letter highlighting relevant experience
to jobs@venice-arts.org. Please indicate: Media Arts Assistant.
Please no phone enquiries or walk-ins. Other materials may be
requested if an interview is scheduled.

Complete position description for Media Arts Assistant attached as a
pdf.

Internship for Students of USC Global Health Institute

Venice Arts and the USC Global Health Institute are making an
internship available to USC students affiliated with the Global Health
Institute:

Web Assistant
This 20-hour per week Internship provides web support both for the IPE
website (live link to www.joinipe.org) and for the Global Health
Institute website (10 hours, each). The following duties and
responsibilities for the IPE portion of the internship include:
researching and compiling participant-produced projects from around
the world, particularly those with an emphasis on public health;
identifying interesting issues in the field or unique projects that
might comprise an IPE story feature; drafting IPE story features;
maintaining the IPE website.

This position pays $15 per hour. The commitment is 20 hours per week
with time split equally between maintaining the Institute for Global
Health's website and the IPE site. The position will run from
February 2010 - December 2010 with possibility of extension.

How To Apply:
Email résumé with with cover letter highlighting relevant experience
to jobs@venice-arts.org. Please indicate: IGH/IPE Intern. Please no
phone enquiries or walk-ins. Other materials may be requested if an
interview is scheduled.

Complete position description for Web Assistant attached as a pdf.

Rosalyn V. Escobar
Office & Program Coordinator

Venice Arts
610 California Ave.
Venice, CA 90291

http://venice-arts.org/
t (310) 578-1745
f (310) 578-1525

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