Art Teacher

3. General Background of Project or Assignment:

UNHCR MCO Hungary, is currently looking for a talented and motivated candidate, with an outstanding interest in providing thematic art activities as an art teacher in “Budapest Helps!” Information and Community Centre in response to ongoing war in Ukraine.

The Centre provides information and information sessions on relevant topics: legal counselling, access to education and support on school enrolment, access to health care, employment assistance, support with administrative issues, etc.; Information for third-country nationals on accommodation, ticketing, temporary residence permit, etc.; Children’s programs (arts and crafts, robotics classes, etc.); Recreational activities through art and culture; Hungarian and English classes; Arts programming, arts performances and workshops; Awareness raising and empowerment programs; Community support programs; Ukrainian cultural and community events, and more.

UNHCR MCO Hungary wishes to expand creative activities in “Budapest Helps!” Information and Community Centre as one of the pillars of intervention to support mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. Recreational activities being a part of basic psychological support promote positive mental health and psychosocial wellbeing and resilience, social interaction, and social cohesion activities within communities.

4. Overall Purpose and Scope of Assignment:

The Art Teacher will provide various art activities in “Budapest Helps!” Information and Community Centre and will work with CBP unit of UNHCR Representation for Central Europe, duty station Budapest. In particular, she/he will contribute to the following tasks in two major areas of work:

a) Art recreational activities

- Conduct one-hour-forty-five-minutes long thematic art classes or courses held in “Budapest Helps!” Information and Community Centre two times per week for adults and children. This will be various thematic art classes or courses on rotating basis monthly: pottery classes or other art thematic classes approved by to the designated focal point in CBP unit as a monthly plan on the last week of the previous month.

- Any other related tasks that may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

b) General responsibilities

- Provide administrative support to the CBP Unit, including submitting attendance lists for the classes, quarterly reports with main highlights. For preparation for the classes as well as reporting additional half an hour weekly will be allocated. For preparation for the classes as well as reporting additional half an hour weekly will be allocated.

- Support provision of visual materials, including submission of consent forms to the use of images, making photo and videos from the classes.