Responsibilities or duties

Visual Arts Teaching and Learning

• Plan and deliver engaging visual arts lessons for early years and elementary students.
• Introduce students to age-appropriate techniques, materials, artists, traditions, and visual forms.
• Support students to explore drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, and other creative processes.
• Build student confidence, imagination, observation, fine motor skills, and artistic voice.

Curriculum Planning and Integration

• Collaborate with classroom teachers to align visual arts instruction with Sankore curriculum.
• Connect visual arts to units of inquiry, Kenyan identity, African artistic traditions, global cultures, nature, storytelling, and STEAM.
• Differentiate instruction for diverse learners with different language, developmental, sensory, or learning needs.

Kenyan, African, and Global Visual Arts

• Integrate Kenyan and African artistic traditions into the curriculum in respectful, age-appropriate, and meaningful ways.
• Help students explore visual arts as a source of identity, memory, culture, and storytelling.

Exhibitions, Displays, and School Events

• Plan and coordinate student art exhibitions, displays, and contributions to school events and showcases.
• Collaborate with classroom and leadership teams on interdisciplinary projects and events.

Safeguarding, Inclusion, and Student Wellbeing

• Uphold Sankore safeguarding, child protection, and student wellbeing expectations at all times.
• Build a visual arts classroom where students feel safe, included, and confident to take creative risks.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Minimum Requirements

Required Experience

• Diploma or bachelor degree in Art Education, Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Design, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, or a related field.
• Teaching qualification, arts education training, or demonstrable experience teaching visual arts to children.
• Commitment to safeguarding, child protection, inclusion, and professional boundaries.
• Strong English communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in an international school, IB PYP, inquiry-based, Reggio-inspired, or Montessori setting.
• Familiarity with African, Kenyan, and global artistic traditions.
• Experience designing exhibitions, student showcases, art clubs, or extracurricular arts programming.
• Basic digital art, photography, design, or multimedia skills.

Core Capabilities

• Creative teaching practice: Designs lessons that help children explore, imagine, make, reflect, and grow.
• Visual arts expertise: Brings strong knowledge of artistic processes, materials, techniques, and visual language.
• Inquiry-based facilitation: Encourages questioning, experimentation, and student-led discovery.
• Inclusion and differentiation: Adapts instruction so all learners can participate meaningfully.
• Safeguarding judgment: Maintains professional boundaries and acts promptly on student safety concerns.

Experience needed

At least 2 years of experience teaching or facilitating visual arts with early years, primary, or elementary-aged learners.

• Plan and deliver engaging visual arts lessons for early years and elementary students.
• Introduce students to age-appropriate techniques, materials, artists, traditions, and visual forms.
• Support students to explore drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, and other creative processes.
• Build student confidence, imagination, observation, fine motor skills, and artistic voice.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers to align visual arts instruction with Sankore curriculum.
• Connect visual arts to units of inquiry, Kenyan identity, African artistic traditions, global cultures, nature, storytelling, and STEAM.
• Differentiate instruction for diverse learners with different language, developmental, sensory, or learning needs.
• Integrate Kenyan and African artistic traditions into the curriculum in respectful, age-appropriate, and meaningful ways.
• Help students explore visual arts as a source of identity, memory, culture, and storytelling.
• Plan and coordinate student art exhibitions, displays, and contributions to school events and showcases.
• Collaborate with classroom and leadership teams on interdisciplinary projects and events.
• Uphold Sankore safeguarding, child protection, and student wellbeing expectations at all times.
• Build a visual arts classroom where students feel safe, included, and confident to take creative risks.

• Creative teaching practice
• Visual arts expertise
• Inquiry-based facilitation
• Inclusion and differentiation
• Safeguarding judgment
• Strong English communication skills

• Diploma or bachelor degree in Art Education, Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Design, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, or a related field.
• Teaching qualification, arts education training, or demonstrable experience teaching visual arts to children.
• Commitment to safeguarding, child protection, inclusion, and professional boundaries.