Cultural Alliance Navigators

 

The Cultural Alliance of York County seeks creative community leaders to act as Navigators in neighborhoods across York County to help creatives access financial and intellectual resources.  Beginning with a one-year pilot program in 2022, Navigators will work one-on-one with grant applicants to provide guidance, resources and technical assistance as applicants fine-tune their grant ideas. Navigators may then approve the artist for funding if/when they deem them ready, and help them fill out the final application.  We are seeking a diverse group of navigators in terms of art form, physical location (we will be hiring 2 Navigators from the Hanover area) as well as cultural background.

 

Goals of the Navigator Program:

  • To engage with artists who don’t consider themselves a part of the artist community or are having trouble making necessary connections.
  • Help artists one-on-one to move toward a more professional space and the way they consider themselves and their work.
  • Create a stronger network of people and resources to support artists in York County.
  • To diversify the power structure of the Cultural Alliance by handing over funding decision making power to Artist Navigators.

 

The ideal Navigator should:

  • Have excellent interpersonal relationship skills
  • Be reliable and reasonably quick with communication
  • Be flexible, as the Navigator program is being piloted and may need to shift and update as it moves forward.
  • Be connected to a community of creators in at least one of the following fields: music, visual art, writing/publishing, performing arts or dance
  • Have experience, whether formally or informally, working with, mentoring, or providing guidance to the creative community.
  • Be self-motivated and able to work independently.

 

 

Time Requirements

  • 10-15 hours per quarter (every 3 months)

Training and Compensation

  • Navigators will receive facilitation training as well as ongoing support in their role from CAYC staff
  • Navigators will receive a professional development grant to be spent on themselves during the year in which they are serving as Navigator.
  • A quarterly stipend for their time spent meeting with applicants.

 

The Navigator application for 2022 is now closed, and we will be announcing our five navigators in early 2022.