Required Experience

• Diploma or bachelor degree in Art Education, Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Design, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, or a related field.
  
• Teaching qualification, arts education training, or demonstrable experience teaching visual arts to children.
  
• At least 2 years of experience teaching or facilitating visual arts with early years, primary, or elementary-aged learners.
  
• Commitment to safeguarding, child protection, inclusion, and professional boundaries.
  
• Strong English communication skills.
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience in an international school, IB PYP, inquiry-based, Reggio-inspired, or Montessori setting.
  
• Familiarity with African, Kenyan, and global artistic traditions.
  
• Experience designing exhibitions, student showcases, art clubs, or extracurricular arts
  
• programming.
  
• Basic digital art, photography, design, or multimedia skills.
  

Visual Arts Teaching and Learning

• Plan and deliver engaging visual arts lessons for early years and elementary students.
  

  Introduce students to age-appropriate techniques, materials, artists, traditions, and visual forms.
  

• Support students to explore drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, and other creative processes.
  
• Build student confidence, imagination, observation, fine motor skills, and artistic voice.
  

Curriculum Planning and Integration

• Collaborate with classroom teachers to align visual arts instruction with Sankore curriculum.
  
• Connect visual arts to units of inquiry, Kenyan identity, African artistic traditions, global cultures, nature, storytelling, and STEAM.
  
• Differentiate instruction for diverse learners with different language, developmental, sensory, or learning needs.
  

Kenyan, African, and Global Visual Arts

• Integrate Kenyan and African artistic traditions into the curriculum in respectful, age-appropriate, and meaningful ways.
  

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• Help students explore visual arts as a source of identity, memory, culture, and storytelling.
  

Exhibitions, Displays, and School Events

• Plan and coordinate student art exhibitions, displays, and contributions to school events and showcases.
  
• Collaborate with classroom and leadership teams on interdisciplinary projects and events.
  

Safeguarding, Inclusion, and Student Wellbeing

• Uphold Sankore safeguarding, child protection, and student wellbeing expectations at all times.
  
• Build a visual arts classroom where students feel safe, included, and confident to take creative risks.