The Details
Title: Frames Contract Instructor
Start Date: Flexible, positions start as early as February 2025
Duration: 6 months with potential to continue long-term
Time Commitment: 5-20 hours per week
Rate: $50/hour contract
Location: Instructor must be a resident of the state of Colorado, with bulk of work occurring onsite in Denver area and/or Colorado Springs
Deadline: Rolling. Applications will be reviewed as received with interviews beginning December 2, 2024.
About Frames Prison Program
Started in 2017, Brink runs this innovative educational program in women’s prisons in the U.S. and UK. Using comics as a way to court low-literacy and reluctant readers, we help students distill a single turning point in their lives into a short graphic memoir. This process works to tackle personal trauma, increase self-sufficiency, and help students gain the tools they need to get out, and stay out, of prison. We now work with reintegration organizations to bring this work to formerly incarcerated adults as part of a reintegration support system. We also work closely with teenagers and young adults in order to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and decrease rates of youth recidivism.
The Mission for this Position
Frames Instructors will facilitate classes for our largest educational programs: Frames Comic Program.
Frames instructors will work with our education team to implement our established curricula. In addition to implementing current curriculum onsite with our established community partners, instructors will also work with our Education Program Manager to create education networks and expand our programs into Colorado communities where need has been identified.
How to Apply
Please submit your résumé, contact details for two references, and written responses to the following questions:
- What is most compelling to you about Brink’s approach? (250 words max)
- Why do you feel you’ll be successful in this role? (400 words max)
- What is your superpower? You may be good at many things, but what are you truly great at? (200 words max)
- How do you typically engage with and build relationships with your community? (200 words max)
- How do you believe teachers can best support a student in identifying their own passion, purpose, and power? (200 words max)
Please submit your application at
https://brinklit.submittable.com/submit/275280/teaching-opportunity-frames-prison-program-colorado
