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About Us

Dragonfly Designs is a full-service in-person and virtual art experience company specializing in corporate team building and events, client appreciation, life’s special occasions and art classes for adults and children. We are a woman-founded, family-owned business based in Northern California. Since 2005, Stacee Gillelen has brought the joy of creativity and art to adults and children across the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, we offer our virtual art corporate events, workshops and parties to customers across the United States and internationally. Our dynamic team of professional artists guide guests through inspiring, meaningful projects in a variety of artistic mediums.

About This Job

Dragonfly Designs is currently seeking in-person Lead Party & Event Host to run our fabulous birthday parties & in person events. This is the perfect job for an art student looking to share the joy of teaching their art medium(s) and to learn new forms of art. Since the world is starting to open back up, so is Dragonfly Designs. Our in person events consist of either Jewelry Making, Tie Dying, Clay Making or Mandala Painting. We have recently expanded to include adult events at our in person offerings. Including children’s birthday parties you will also have the opportunity to host Bachelorette Parties, Celebration of Life Events, Bat Mitzvahs, Holiday Parties & other various Events.

For the right candidate there is also the opportunity to teach our afterschool enrichment classes in person. In our in-person classes, camps, workshops & events you’ll teach the following types of techniques: beading, wire work, seed beading, painting, watercolor, macrame, dying, sewing, weaving, bookbinding, embroidery, batik & more! Do you have another specialty? Let us know!

You’ll facilitate relationships and collaboration between party guests while teaching them skills they can use for years to come. At Dragonfly Designs we invest heavily in our staff’s training & development and we are looking for long-term staff dedicated to our mission.

Weekend Availability Required
Multiple locations around San Diego area (must have a car)
In depth jewelry making training provided
Opportunity for teaching experience

Who We Are

Since 2005, Dragonfly Designs has been sharing the joy of art and jewelry making with our community in the San Francisco Bay Area. The aim of our family business is to enable creativity through holistic art education. Art should be an engaging, tactile, and rewarding experience. Our goal is to create peaceful and inclusive spaces where each person is empowered to make truly unique treasures by hand. For adults & children, we know that art is powerful and can express what words often cannot. For many, creating art provides a powerful experience of relaxation leading to a reduction in stress, anxiety, and worry.

Who You Are

You have In Person experience teaching adults & children
You are engaging, fun, energetic and able to create meaningful connections with your students allowing for a positive learning environment where creativity can thrive.
You have a teaching background & expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Sewing
Embroidery
Macrame
Painting (Watercolor & Acrylic)
Jewelry Making (Beading, Wire Work, Seed Beading)
Leatherworking
Ceramics
Other – Do you have an artistic passion that could transition to an in-person or Virtual Classroom?
You’re a student of ECE, getting a teaching credential, are a certified teacher or have a degree in or are studying the arts.
You’ve got teaching experience sharing art skills with children and adults!
You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a passion for sharing your artistic knowledge. You are comfortable speaking in front of groups in an entertaining and engaging way.

Pay Scale

Instructors within the company have a specific pay scale that increases based on demonstrated skill level Tiers. Rates will be discussed during our initial job interview.

Next Steps

You will be invited to a Q&A with the Staff Team Lead to learn more about our company history, learn about where we’ve been, where we’re going as well as how your role fits into the big picture. After the Q&A if you are still interested in the position we will invite you to fill out the application on our website.

After we’ve reviewed your application and decided to move forward we will select those individuals that we believe are a good fit for our programs & invite them to a Zoom interview to learn more about you and your skill set.

You will be asked to fill out the complete job application on our website so we can learn more about you and get to know your zone of genius.

San Diego Party & Event Host

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At Dragonfly Designs we invest heavily in our staff’s training & development and we are looking for long-term staff dedicated to our mission. We request a minimum of 2 years.
At Dragonfly Designs we invest in our staffs training & development and are looking for a long term commitment to this position. How long can you realistically commit to working with us?*
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At Dragonfly Designs these are our Core Values: We Genuinely Care About our reputation, about giving our customers a WOW experience, and about each other. We believe a good reputation outweighs profit every time. We Are Always Learning We are always looking to improve ourselves, the company and our offerings. We aren’t afraid to dream big and we see mistakes as opportunities to grow. We are a Team of Individuals Our company culture champions diversity and believes we are all richer for hearing different viewpoints and experiences. We treat each other with Respect, Compassion and Empathy. We Show Up We are enthusiastic, energetic, tenacious, and prepared for the task at hand. We model our Core Values and act with integrity with each other and with our clients. We Say Make It Fun We are really serious about what we do but don’t take ourselves too seriously! Our team will always stop to laugh, celebrate each other’s successes and blow off some steam. We take this exuberant mindset into every single interaction with our clients, ensuring their own joyful experience. Please tell us how your contributions will be a good fit with our company culture:*
Please submit a 5 minute video that outlines your teaching philosophy. Feel free to answer any or all of the following questions. What are your values, beliefs, and aspirations as a teacher? Do you wish to encourage mastery, competency, transformational learning, lifelong learning, general transference of skills, critical thinking? What does a perfect teaching situation look like to you and why? How are the values and beliefs realized in classroom activities? You may discuss course materials, lesson plans, activities, assignments, and assessment instruments.
Please upload video to a service (Google Drive, Dropbox, Youtube) and provide a link. If you need more time to create this video, please email the link to Angelica@dragonflyfun.com
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- I hereby certify that I have not knowingly withheld any information that might adversely affect my chances for employment and that the answers given by me are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. I further certify that I, the undersigned applicant, have personally completed this application. I understand that any omission or misstatement of material fact on this application or on any document used to secure employment shall be grounds for rejection of this application or for immediate discharge if I am employed, regardless of the time elapsed before discovery.
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- I hereby authorize Dragonfly Designs to thoroughly investigate my references, work record, education and other matters related to my suitability for employment and, further, authorize the references I have listed to disclose to the Dragonfly Designs any and all letters, reports and other information related to my work records, without giving me prior notice of such disclosure. In addition, I hereby release the Dragonfly Designs, my former employers and all other persons, corporations, partnerships and associations from any and all claims, demands or liabilities arising out of or in any way related to such investigation or disclosure.
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