WIT seeks full-time Education Director to guide our life-changing classes program
Are you passionate about community, creativity, and the transformative power of improv? As our Education Director, you will be the driving force behind Washington Improv Theater’s (WIT) vibrant educational ecosystem. You will oversee and scale our multi-level adult classes program (currently serving ~1,200 registrations annually) and spearhead our vital Improv for All community outreach workshops across the DC region.
At WIT, we believe that to create our best work, we need diverse participants and diverse voices. We embrace a continued evolution toward cultivating an organization that is actively anti-oppressive. The Education Director will be a vital steward of these values, designing educational spaces where students from all backgrounds, identities, and skill levels feel safe to take creative risks.
This is a leadership role for a strategic thinker, an empathetic community-builder, and an organized administrator who wants to foster an inclusive, high-energy environment for students, instructors, and artists alike.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Operations
- Curate & Schedule: Plan, budget, and execute WIT’s year-round, 5-level core adult curriculum, specialized workshops, and class showcases.
- Logistics Mastery: Coordinate and manage classroom space contracting, instructor scheduling, and student enrollment logistics (registrations, transfers, and cancellations).
- Community Outreach: Champion the Improv for All program, delivering free introductory workshops to diverse neighborhoods, suburbs, and community partner organizations.
- Growth & Promotion: Partner with the External Relations Director to build marketing strategies that drive enrollment and expand WIT’s audience reach.
- Adapt systems and practices as needed when WIT transitions majority of its programming to its new space in NoMa.
- Quarterly showcases do require weekend hours, countered by compensatory leave.
Faculty Cultivation & Inclusion Advocacy
- Support & Mentor: Lead, recruit, support, and mentor a diverse, high-caliber faculty and Teaching Assistant (TA) pipeline, with a conscious focus on elevating voices from historically underrepresented communities.
- Foster Camaraderie: Build a collaborative faculty culture rooted in the sharing of best practices and continuous professional development.
- Values Alignment: Ensure the curriculum and classroom environments foster cultural competence, emotional safety, and creative joy in the classroom, reflecting WIT’s core values.
- Data-Driven Success: Develop evaluation systems to measure program success, using student/teacher feedback to strategically guide future growth.
Communication & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Primary Liaison: Act as the main point of contact for students, contract faculty, and venue partners, ensuring clear and welcoming communication.
- Volunteer Integration: Work with the Operations Director to track and administer class discount rewards for WIT’s dedicated volunteer network.
- Organizational Strategy: Collaborate with leadership on organization-wide strategy, attend board meetings (5x/year), and present educational program metrics to the Board of Directors.
- All-Hands Support: Lend creative input for marketing collateral (emails, brochures) and assist with fundraising campaigns and special WIT events.
What You Bring to the Team
- The Experience: Proven experience managing educational programming, community-based arts programs, cooperative environments, or non-profit leadership. (Experience in theater/improv is a massive plus, but not required).
- The Mindset: A people-first leader who thrives on building community, championing diversity, and creating inclusive spaces.
- The Skillset: Exceptionally organized with a knack for logistics, budgeting, and managing moving parts without breaking a sweat.
- The Communicator: Exceptional emotional intelligence, conflict resolution skills, and the ability to navigate complex community dynamics with empathy and clarity. Strong written and verbal skills, with the ability to connect authentically with everyone from first-time students to board members.
- The Innovator: An entrepreneurial spirit keen to try new approaches and learn from both successes and failures.
Why You’ll Love Working With Us
At WIT, we believe improv changes lives. You’ll join a collaborative, creative, and passionate team dedicated to making the arts accessible to everyone in the DC area. We offer a flexible working environment where your ideas matter and your impact is visible every single day.
Salary & Benefits
- Salary in $70-75K range
- 15 days annual leave, 17 paid holidays (including week before New Year’s), sick leave as needed
- Health insurance coverage at Platinum Level
- Majority remote work with flexible work schedule.
- Free performance tickets and class registration.
If you don’t tick every single box but have a deep passion for comedy/improv as a tool for social connection, community empowerment, and human joy—and you possess the foundational skills to lead this program—we strongly encourage you to apply.
Washington Improv Theater is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.