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Ethnoarts Specialist

Wycliffe Bible Translators USA

Ethnoarts Specialist

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Hiring Remotely in Tanzania

Entry level

Remote

Hiring Remotely in Tanzania

Entry level

Works with language communities in Tanzania to research and promote local arts within language and community development programs. Responsibilities include surveying cultural arts, facilitating indigenous Christian songs, dances, drama, stories, performances, and visual arts, evaluating community outcomes, and sharing findings with academic and other communities. Requires approved ethnoarts training, artistic experience, and effective Swahili communication.

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Job Title

Ethnoarts Specialist

Location

Tanzania

Position Type

Member

Job Description

Works hands-on in a language community or cluster of language communities to encourage the use
of local arts as part of language and community development programs.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

● Survey and research the meanings and forms of a community's local arts.

● Help communities integrate their local arts into language and community development

programs.

● With local communities and other stakeholders, facilitate the creation and evaluation of

indigenous Christian songs, dances, drama, stories and other performances and visual arts,

in response to community goals and needs.

● Share what is learned with academic and other communities.

Education and Experience:

● Training by approved programs at Dallas International University (Center for Excellence in

World Arts) or Payap University, described at https://www.sil.org/training/arts-and-

ethnomusicology.

● Has experience working with a wide range of artistic disciplines, with special competence in

at least one.

● Previous multicultural experience helpful

● Further training to be determined

● Applicants must be able to communicate effectively in Swahili

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