Visual Arts Teacher (Part-Time)

Position Summary

The Part-Time Visual Arts Teacher (2-3 days per week) will design and deliver engaging, developmentally appropriate visual arts instruction for early years and elementary students. Reporting to the Head of Teaching and Learning, the teacher will help students build creativity, visual literacy, confidence, technical skill, and reflective thinking through drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, design, and other age-appropriate art forms.

This role is ideal for an educator who can work across age levels, create a safe and inspiring studio culture, and collaborate with classroom teachers to connect visual arts with broader units of inquiry. The teacher will also have the opportunity to offer specialized visual arts instruction and private lessons outside of core teaching responsibilities.

Essential Job Functions

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.
• 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.

Minimum Requirements

• 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.

Core Capabilities

• Creative teaching practice: Designs lessons that help children explore, imagine, make, reflect, and grow.
• Visual arts expertise: Brings strong knowledge of artistic processes, materials, techniques, and visual language.
• Inquiry-based facilitation: Encourages questioning, experimentation, and student-led discovery.
• Inclusion and differentiation: Adapts instruction so all learners can participate meaningfully.
• Safeguarding judgment: Maintains professional boundaries and acts promptly on student safety concerns.