Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Our School

French American + International is a PK-12 independent school in San Francisco. Founded in 1962, the school is a multicultural, multilingual educational institution with over 1,100 students across an urban campus in the heart of the city. Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the French American International School offers programs of study in French and English to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to communicate across cultures is of paramount importance.

Mission and Values

Our international community brings together people from many backgrounds. Together we strive to create a shared culture that develops compassionate, confident, and principled people who will make the world better. We base our community on these values: Respect, Integrity, Inclusion, Collaboration, and Curiosity.

Opportunity

Working at French American + International opens up a myriad of opportunities – both personal and professional. Critical to our Strategic Plan in creating a proud, engaged community, we appreciate our faculty and staff by fostering a community of ongoing learning, respect, and collegiality and by providing competitive compensation and benefits. It is also of paramount importance to us that we continue to foster an environment of diversity, equity, and inclusion as we build a school community of individuals who are an actual representation of the world we live in.

Position Overview:

French-American International School is looking to hire a costume designer/ costume shop manager/ costumer to take on all costuming needs in the upper school theater program from December 2023 - June 2024. 

Qualified candidates will bring professional training, skills and experience in costume design and shop management. Experience working with middle and/or high school students is also highly desired. Under the supervision of the school’s in-house Technical Director and Artistic Director, this person would:

1/ Oversee and support a team of student costume designers to create costumes for One Act Plays (December 2023-January 2024). Help with fittings, adjustments, etc. Be present during tech week (January 27 - 9-5pm, then January 20, 30, and 31 - from 2pm-7pm) and help with cleaning and re-organization of costumes. 

2/ Design and create costumes for two full-scale productions. This includes a spring play, produced in March 2024 (with “tech week” - March 2 - 9-5pm, then March 4, 5, 6- from 2pm-7pm). There is a middle-school play, in May 2024 - (with “tech week” - on May 4 9am-5pm, then May 6, 7, 8 - from 2pm-7pm.)

3/ Undertake “Costume Shop Manager” duties, so help with organization and maintenance of the costume shop and costume stock. This includes helping pull some costumes for class projects and overseeing an end-of-season clean up.

4/ Work with assistant student designers on major productions and, for each show, train and support a student “wardrobe” team that will maintain, organize and clean costumes throughout the “run” of each show, as well as help with hair and makeup for each production. (The costume designer is typically present during tech week, but not during the run of the show.)

NOTE: Outside of “tech weeks” - the work can be scheduled flexibly - and will vary week to week. Ideally, the designer/ costume manager will attend the weekly theater team meeting and production meeting (2-hours/week) and work with students during the regularly scheduled “tech time”, one afternoon per week. (These are currently all on Mondays, but could be potentially rescheduled.)

Salary for this position: $3,000 - $17,000 dependent upon duties undertaken.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICY

French American International School is committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, age, physical ability, or medical condition. We seek to increase the presence, representation, and inclusion of U.S. historically under-represented people of color, international, bilingual, and bicultural students, faculty, and staff; and, to provide an environment that will attract and retain individuals identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex (LGBTQI)

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