School of Media Studies

The Educational Video Center (www.evc.org) is seeking an exceptional full time Director of Professional Development Programs. EVC is an award-winning non-profit youth media and social justice organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change.

The Director of Professional Development Programs (PDP Director) is a core staff position at EVC, responsible for integrating our educational model in schools and afterschool programs. The PDP Director will report to the Deputy Director, Programs and will supervise freelance media coaches and instructors. The PDP Director will work at EVC’s offices in the West Village and partner school sites across NYC, with a remote option until further notice.

Educational Video Center is an award-winning non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary filmmaking as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. Now in it’s 36th year, EVC currently has openings for Youth Media Instructors for in-school and afterschool documentary filmmaking programs.

EVC offers in-school and afterschool documentary filmmaking programming for youth across New York City. In each program, students collaborate on the production of a short documentary film about a social justice issue of their choosing that they identify as having significance to their own lives and communities. The program culminates in public screenings of their documentaries.

The curriculum draws from both EVC’s signature Youth Powered Video curriculum, and curriculum crafted by individual instructors in coordination with the supervisor in order to meet the particular needs of the group, the social justice topic, and the filmmaking process.