Program Director - Arts for Life

Position Announcement – June 2, 2025

PROGRAM DIRECTOR - 32 hrs/wk

Arts For Life at HCA Mission Children’s Hospital

Asheville, North Carolina

Arts For Life (AFL), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Asheville, NC, is currently seeking a Program Director who will be responsible for ensuring that Arts For Life delivers top-notch programs to patients and families in hospitals/clinics and has overall responsibility over the success of the Asheville chapter serving Mission Children's Hospital.

ABOUT ARTS FOR LIFE 

Arts For Life is dedicated to supporting pediatric patients and families through arts education and engagement. By providing educational arts programs, AFL enriches patients’ lives, nurtures their minds and spirits, and encourages positive healthcare experiences for children and their families. AFL currently serves children and their families in three chapter communities across North Carolina (Asheville, Charlotte, and Winston-Salem).

Arts For Life's core values are creativity, compassion, learning, collaboration, and inclusion. Its organizational culture can be described as empowering and supportive, with a strong focus on its mission and clients.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This position is full-time [32 hrs/wk] and non-exempt. Hiring pay rate $23/hr. Benefits include 100% employer-paid healthcare package and a generous paid time off policy, with 9 additional paid holidays. The Program Director works primarily in a hospital/clinic setting and will be required to travel between AFL program locations at Mission Children’s Hospital (within a three-mile radius).

The Program Director is responsible for ensuring that Arts For Life delivers top-notch programs to patients and families in hospitals/clinics and has overall responsibility over the success of the Asheville chapter serving HCA Mission Children’s Hospital. This includes multiple locations within Asheville: the Reuter Outpatient Center / Mission Children's Specialists, Zeis Children's Cancer Center, and the pediatric Inpatient unit at Mission Hospital. This position reports to the Executive Director and directly supervises the Asheville chapter’s other staff, volunteers, and interns. The Program Director works with onsite hospital/clinic staff and Arts For Life staff in other chapters, particularly other Program Directors.

The Program Director must be a resident of North Carolina.

QUALIFICATIONS

This position requires a bachelor’s degree in the arts, education, or a related field OR extensive (at least 5 years) experience with the arts (in a variety of mediums) and children in a work environment. Experience managing volunteers or coordinating a group/team is highly preferred.

Other required qualifications: Capacity to manage a high volume of work with efficiency and attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships. Demonstrated commitment to the values and mission of Arts For Life.

Due to hospital requirements, this position also requires up-to-date immunizations and annual flu shots.

This position is subject to the successful completion of an employment background check. An employment background check can include a criminal background check, employment verification, reference checks, license verification, academic verification and credit history check (if applicable).

TO APPLY

• For full job description, visit https://artsforlifenc.org/employment/

• Send the following as a PDF—preferably in a single file—via email only to hiring@artsforlifenc.org

  • Cover Letter

  • Resume

    • Please be sure to include any special skills that may be relevant to the position, such as particular art mediums or ages/populations, conversational Spanish, Arabic or other languages, etc.

  • Three references—include email address and phone number

  • Written responses to the following—120 words maximum per question

    • What draws you to this position?

    • Which of AFL’s core values resonates most with you? Why?

    • Which element of AFL’s programming do you have the most experience with—the arts, children/families or the medical setting?

    • Which element of programming do you have the least experience with?

Application deadline: Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 11:59 PM

Inclusion is a core value of Arts For Life. In our hospitals and clinic programs, everyone is welcome at the art table. This belief and practice carries over to our workspace and hiring process. Arts For Life is committed to equality of employment and does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, cultural background, socioeconomic status, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or diagnosis, genetic information or veteran status. Moreover, Arts For Life is committed to recruiting a broadly diverse pool of qualified candidates for this position.