Employment Opportunities
The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey continually works to enrich, amaze and inspire all who pass through our doors. The Art Center provides an opportunity for employees to deepen their love of art while contributing their skills and talents. Throughout the year a variety of opportunities may become available.
The Art Center provides a competitive benefits package for full-time employees.
Position: Lead Facilities Technician
Position Type: Full Time, Exempt. Weekend and evening work, as required
Pay Range: 52-60K
Summary: The Lead FacilitiesTechnician oversees the maintenance, repair, cleaning and set-up of the building and grounds of the Visual Art Center. This includes overseeing building security, repairs, class and event set-up, scheduled maintenance of systems, and compliance with federal, state, and local accessibility and safety laws. Reports to the Executive Director.
Essential Functions
Building and Grounds Management
- Manages the room requirements for the various programming ensuring that there is a seamless utilization of the building and that class and event requirements are being met, as specified in event forms or studio school class preparation forms.
- During the day, does basic cleaning of bathrooms and hallways, as necessary.
- Understands and follows the museum housekeeping policies in order to protect artworks in the museum galleries at all times.
- Oversees outside contracted custodians. Directs and coordinates activities of personnel involved in performing internal facilities operations.
- Ensures safe and efficient operation of the physical plant including the HVAC Systems.
- Using manufacturers’ recommendations and job knowledge, establishes and carries out a preventative maintenance program for the physical plant, tools and Art Center equipment. Accountable for problem-solving all maintenance issues and emergency repairs.
- Oversees outside contracted ground crew for maintaining lawn, plants, and trees and supervising removal of snow and ice during winter storms.
- Maintains storage and ordering of any necessary cleaning supplies and cleaning equipment, including maintenance of that equipment.
- Handles out-of-hours emergencies. Interface with emergency services, including preparing the building for inspections.
- Responsible for trash removal and recycling.
- Coordinates pest management visits.
- Oversees the work of outside contractors to ensure compliance with contractual agreements and budgetary restrictions.
Information and Telephone Systems Management
- Oversees outside contracted Information Systems Technology company who oversee processes, platforms, servers, and desktop computers, including password management of staff computer-based program accounts, email hosting, website hosting, and backup management of Art Center data.
Risk and Compliance Management
- Ensures compliance with federal and regulatory agencies including but not limited to OSHA, Summit fire codes, and Summit building codes.
- Informs the ED of any concerns about building use, modifications, or needed repairs that may impact staff or visitor safety.
Security/Disaster Control
- Maintains key management, building security and fire alarm processes (Police/Alarms Co/Fire Department).
- Performs all duties of Fire Marshall.
- With the Executive Director, schedules and performs emergency drills.
Building Improvements
- Works with staff to design and build projects that are possible to do in-house.
- Works with exhibitions team to paint and prepare spaces for exhibition.
Fiscal
- Manages department budgets.
- Review and approve all department expenditures
Qualifications: This position requires a minimum of 3 years work experience in building operations and facilities management. The position requires:
- Experience in contractor/vendor management.
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Knowledge of facilities maintenance practices, including HVAC systems, plumbing, electrical and general building repairs.
Physical and Mental Demands
The position frequently requires the ability to lift 50 pounds and occasionally the ability to safely climb ladders while carrying up to 40 pounds. The position frequently requires mental demands of problem solving and process management. This position requires frequent use of a computer and hand or power tools.
Work Environment
The position averages approximately 80% indoors and 20% outdoors. This position is in-person only and does not allow for flexibility in working from home
Drawing in Pastels Instructor Job Posting
About the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
For over 90 years, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey has been dedicated to the vision of creating an inclusive and welcoming community where lives are transformed and enriched through the shared experience of art. This vision is fulfilled by the best in contemporary art exhibitions; a robust four-semester Studio School serving about 4,500 students per year; public programming that allows the public to interact with exhibiting artists; and in-community programs for seniors, at-risk youth and children, and adults with disabilities.
Drawing in Pastels Instructor Description
The Studio School at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey seeks a pastel drawing instructor to teach an adult class focusing on landscapes and still lives. The class would meet once a week, for 2.5 hours, on Thursdays from 9:30 AM – 12 PM starting in our Fall Semester (mid-September 2025). The ideal candidate will have at least 1-2 years teaching experience in addition to a passion for working in pastels. Instructors are responsible for developing the course content and curriculum for their classes.
How to Apply
To apply, please send a completed new instructor form, VACNJ class proposal form, and resume to proposals@artcenternj.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Qualified applicants will be selected to schedule an interview. No phone calls please.
Painting/Drawing Instructor Job Posting
About the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
For over 90 years, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey has been dedicated to the vision of creating an inclusive and welcoming community where lives are transformed and enriched through the shared experience of art. This vision is fulfilled by the best in contemporary art exhibitions; a robust four-semester Studio School serving about 4,500 students per year; public programming that allows the public to interact with exhibiting artists; and in-community programs for seniors, at-risk youth and children, and adults with disabilities.
Painting/Drawing Instructor Description
The Studio School at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey seeks a painting instructor to teach an adult class focusing on landscape painting, with the ability to teach in oil and acrylic. The class would meet once a week, for 2.5 hours, on Mondays starting in our Fall Semester (mid-September 2025). The ideal candidate will have at least 1-2 years teaching experience in addition to a passion for painting. Instructors are responsible for developing the course content and curriculum for their classes.
How to Apply
To apply, please send a completed new instructor form, VACNJ class proposal form, and resume to proposals@artcenternj.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Qualified applicants will be selected to schedule an interview. No phone calls please.
ART THERAPIST
NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services
LOCATION: Highland Park, NJ
NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services serves formerly incarcerated individuals as they re-enter their communities. Teams of trained volunteer Navigators help Participants navigate the various pillars of successful re-entry into society: finding gainful employment and housing, pursuing personal development including counseling or drug/alcohol treatment, and regaining the trust of others through communication and accountability. The Visual Arts Center of NJ has partnered with NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services to pilot an Arts & Healing Therapy program intended to help formerly incarcerated individuals form a healthy sense of self/identity, establish healthy coping skills, offer emotional support, secure skills of effective non-verbal form of effective communication. We are looking for a dedicated art therapist to work with us in Highland Park, NJ and positively impact the lives of formerly incarcerated individuals.
POSITION SUMMARY: The Art Therapist explores client’s ability to express themselves through art and/or creative expression. The Art Therapist participates as a member of the care team in planning, providing, and evaluating creative art therapy for formerly incarcerated individuals to enhance the delivery of quality care. The Art Therapist assesses, develops and plans one-on-one creative art therapy activities for clients appropriate to the multidisciplinary plan of care. The Therapist plans activities at the client’s level of functioning and evaluates and documents the client’s response to the program. The Therapist integrates activities as part of the plan of care and collaborates with other members of the care team to enhance creative arts activities. This position delivers care in a prompt and professional manner, always maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and respect. The Therapist works as part of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support departmental objectives. The Therapist provides quality customer service, participates in performance improvement efforts and assumes responsibility for professional growth and development. Therapist will join as an independent contractor.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Facilitate creative art therapy for all interested clients
- Ability to process creative works with clients, when appropriate, through use of psychodynamic theories
- Organize potential client art exhibits in-house and at the graduation/celebration ceremony when appropriate and with the agreement of the participants
- Designs individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner when available.
- Maintains inventory of art supplies as well as order site appropriate materials.
- Coordinate with Program Director to address client specific issues that have surfaced during art therapy sessions.
- Maintain an attendance record and sign the appropriate agreements
- Provide monthly report to on/offsite supervisor
- Assists in special projects as required/requested
- Supports the goals, objectives and mission statement set forth by the Board of Directors and the administration of the facility
- Maintain and institute all infection control protocols
- Must possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Must be comfortable working independently
- Must attain supervision off site/independently
- Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, required ·
- Prior experience relevant to the area of clinical practice preferred
- Minimum of two years’ experience working with currently or formerly incarcerated populations
Job Type:
- Contract Duration: Three, one-hour long sessions of art therapy each week for 12 weeks
- Salary: $65/hr
- Education: Master’s degree from an Accredited Institution as per the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) — REQUIRED
License:
- Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and/or working toward hours to attain accreditation (ATR-BC) — REQUIRED
- Work authorization: United States (Required)
Creative Arts Therapist
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Visual Arts Center of NJ
Location: Veteran’s Haven North 200 Sanatorium Rd Suite 101, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826
When: Twice a week (days are flexible); 90 minutes each session
POSITION SUMMARY
- The Art Therapist enlists and explores client’s ability to express themselves through art.
- The Creative Arts Therapist participates as a member of the care team in planning, providing, and evaluating creative art therapy for veterans to enhance the delivery of quality care.
- The Creative Arts Therapist assesses, develops and plans creative arts therapy activities for patients appropriate to the multidisciplinary plan of care. The Therapist plans activities at the patient’s level of functioning and evaluates and documents the patient’s response to the program. The Therapist integrates activities as part of the plan of care and collaborates with other members of the care team to enhance creative arts activities.
- This position delivers care in a prompt and professional manner, always maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and respect. The Therapist works as part of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support departmental objectives. The Therapist provides quality customer service, participates in performance improvement efforts and assumes responsibility for professional growth and development. Therapist will join as an independent contractor.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Facilitate creative arts therapy groups for all interested clients
- Ability to process creative works with clients, when appropriate, through use of psychodynamic theories
- Constructs evidence-based interventions for clients
- Organize potential client art exhibits in-house and at the graduation/celebration ceremony when appropriate and with the agreement of the participants
- Requisition and submit orders to the Coordinator of Therapeutic Recreation or LCSW
- Designs individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner when available (site dependent).
- Maintains inventory of art supplies as well as order
- Coordinate with Recreation Therapist/LCSW to address issues through art therapy
- Provide documentation in client’s charts
- Provide monthly report to supervisor
- Assists in special projects as required
- Supports the goals, objectives and mission statement set forth by the Board of Directors and the administration of the facility
- Maintain and institute all infection control protocols
- Must possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Must be comfortable working independently
- Must attain supervision off site/independently
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, required
- Prior experience relevant to the area of clinical practice preferred
- Minimum of two years’ experience working with substance abuse and/or geriatric populations
Job Type: Contract
Salary: $65-$70/hr
Education:
- Master’s degree from an Accredited Institution as per the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) — REQUIRED
License:
- Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and/or working toward hours to attain accreditation (ATR-BC) — REQUIRED
- NJ LPAT (Licensed Professional Art Therapist) Licensure or provisional license — REQUIRED
Work authorization:
- United States (Required)
Creative Arts Therapist
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Visual Arts Center of NJ
Location: Veteran’s Haven South 301 Spring Garden Rd, Hammonton, NJ 08037
When: Wednesdays, 1–3 PM
POSITION SUMMARY
- The Art Therapist enlists and explores client’s ability to express themselves through art.
- The Creative Arts Therapist participates as a member of the care team in planning, providing, and evaluating creative art therapy for veterans to enhance the delivery of quality care.
- The Creative Arts Therapist assesses, develops and plans creative arts therapy activities for patients appropriate to the multidisciplinary plan of care. The Therapist plans activities at the patient’s level of functioning and evaluates and documents the patient’s response to the program. The Therapist integrates activities as part of the plan of care and collaborates with other members of the care team to enhance creative arts activities.
- This position delivers care in a prompt and professional manner, always maintaining the highest level of confidentiality and respect. The Therapist works as part of the care team to meet the needs of the customer and to support departmental objectives. The Therapist provides quality customer service, participates in performance improvement efforts and assumes responsibility for professional growth and development. Therapist will join as an independent contractor.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Facilitate creative arts therapy groups for all interested clients
- Ability to process creative works with clients, when appropriate, through use of psychodynamic theories
- Constructs evidence-based interventions for clients
- Organize potential client art exhibits in-house and at the graduation/celebration ceremony when appropriate and with the agreement of the participants
- Requisition and submit orders to the Coordinator of Therapeutic Recreation or LCSW
- Designs individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner when available (site dependent).
- Maintains inventory of art supplies as well as order
- Coordinate with Recreation Therapist/LCSW to address issues through art therapy
- Provide documentation in client’s charts
- Provide monthly report to supervisor
- Assists in special projects as required
- Supports the goals, objectives and mission statement set forth by the Board of Directors and the administration of the facility
- Maintain and institute all infection control protocols
- Must possess strong written, verbal, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
- Must be comfortable working independently
- Must attain supervision off site/independently
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree in Art Therapy, required
- Prior experience relevant to the area of clinical practice preferred
- Minimum of two years’ experience working with substance abuse and/or geriatric populations
Job Type: Contract
Salary: $65-$70/hr
Education:
- Master’s degree from an Accredited Institution as per the Art Therapy Credentialing Board and The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) — REQUIRED
License:
- Board Certified and Registered Art Therapist and/or working toward hours to attain accreditation (ATR-BC) — REQUIRED
- NJ LPAT (Licensed Professional Art Therapist) Licensure or provisional license — REQUIRED
Work authorization:
- United States (Required)
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