Work for Artist Boat
Career Opportunities
Join the Artist Boat Team
Escape to the beautiful views and scenic landscape of the Coastal Heritage Preserve and Galveston Bay. Employment at Artist Boat offers many amenities, such as access to trails, the birding tower, our new treehouse, and even the swimming pool. Don’t just sit in a boring break room at lunch. Take a walk, get a breath of fresh air and enjoy the wildlife of the prairie.
Artist Boat provides excellent career opportunities with competitive non-profit salaries and hourly wages for entry level degreed professionals pursuing careers in nature interpretation, environmental education, habitat restoration and conservation, and non-profit management. Benefits include health care, IRA, leave accrual, and long term and short term disability. To apply for any positions listed the application must be submitted by mail; must have three letters of professional reference; must submit a copy of transcripts; samples of work products are encouraged (art work, writing samples, etc.). Only completed packages will be reviewed for positions.
How to Apply
To apply, please email Complete PDF Application Package to
executive.assistant@artistboat.org
Complete Application Package should include
Cover Letter, Resume, College Transcripts (if degreed),
and Three (3) Contacts or Letters of Professional Reference / Recommendations.
Complete Application Packages will be reviewed in full and interviews
based on meeting the qualifications described in job descriptions.
Application deadlines and start dates are listed in
full job descriptions of each available position.
Complete Application Packages may also be mailed to
Artist Boat at 13330 Settegast Road, Galveston, TX 77554
Current Job Openings
Education Program Manager
The Education Program Manager is a mid-management position primarily responsible for fostering, designing, managing, maintaining, evaluating and growing Artist Boat’s Adventure Program for K-Grey learners. A large focus of this program is on maintaining and fostering partnerships with a variety of entities to develop and implement grants and contracts designed to provide outdoor and place-based experiences via kayak, foot, vessel, and other platforms of learning (workshops, residencies, professional development, birding, on-site camps, and afterschool or summer programs) in order to bring K-Grey learners to the coastal environment for environmental education experiences that result in attitudinal and behavioral changes that improve environmental quality. The Education Program Manager is primarily responsible for fostering and maintaining Eco-Art Workshop and Adventure Programs, Eco-Art Residencies and companion public art initiatives, Eco-Art Curriculum and Professional Development to meet and exceed national standards for programs increasing ocean literacy, ECO and Eco-Art Camps at the Coastal Heritage Preserve during school breaks and summer, Habitat Restoration Adventures and nativescaping on school campuses, and Beach Engagement Programs (Beautify the Bucket, Bucket Brigade, and World Ocean Day). This person is responsible for assuring all programs are founded in traditional environmental education and focused on increasing science and arts literacy through place-based, project-based, and marine science education methodologies for persons K-Grey.
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Education Program Coordinator
The Education Program Coordinator is an entry level management position and primarily responsible for assisting the Education Program Manager in fostering, designing, managing, maintaining, and growing Artist Boat’s Education Programs, which include Eco-Art Workshops and Adventures, Eco-Art Residencies, Summer Camps, Bucket Brigade, and Habitat Restoration Adventures. Primary duties include day-to-day operation of the programs (inclusive of assuring educational staff assignments and duties are completed; equipment, supplies, logistics and communications are sufficient for the day’s programs; and co-delivery of programs 66% of the time). A large focus of this position is on maintaining and fostering smooth operations of programs and implementing processes for proper management and obtainment of the program resources (vehicles, equipment, educational staff, supplies, and destinations). This position allows the Education Program Manager time to foster partnerships and communicate promptly with a variety of entities and teachers for scheduling and follow up on planning program components and developing direct pay revenue programs and partners. The goal of the Education Program is to deliver place-based and experiential learning to K-Grey learners and partners to build a stewardship ethic that results in restored, enhanced, and conserved lands that benefit the public and the wildlife in the coastal zone through touch-stone and memorable experiences using science and arts literacy standards through environmental education models.
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Lead Eco-Art Educator (Visual Arts)
Primary duty of an Eco Art Educator is to interpret habitats, ecosystems, science, and the environment through the disciplines of art and science for people of all ages while engaging in Eco-Art experiences in the classroom, in the field and on the water with Artist Boat. Educator will clearly and enthusiastically use the arts and sciences as the primary discipline to convey knowledge and engageparticipants in outdoor education, service learning, in-class workshops or artist residencies. Educator must be flexible and willing to learn multiple components of conservation and education skills.
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Eco-Art Educator (Science)
Primary duty of an Eco Art Educator is to interpret habitats, ecosystems, science, and the environment through the disciplines of art and science for people of all ages while engaging in Eco-Art experiences in the classroom, in the field and on the water with Artist Boat. Educator will clearly and enthusiastically use the arts and sciences as the primary discipline to convey knowledge andengage participants in outdoor education, service learning, in-class workshops or artist residencies. Educator must be flexible and willing to learn multiple components of conservation and education skills.
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