Green Team Member, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival

About BRIC: 

BRIC is a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. For over forty years, BRIC has shaped Brooklyn’s cultural and media landscape by presenting and incubating artists, creators, students, and media makers. As a creative catalyst for their community, BRIC ignites learning in people of all ages and centralizes diverse voices that take risks and drive culture forward. BRIC is building Brooklyn’s creative future.

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is NYC’s longest-running, free performance festival, and a beloved summer tradition featuring approximately 25 varied large-scale performances and attracting upwards of 200,000 people each summer to the Prospect Park Bandshell.

About the Green Team Role: 

BRIC seeks a Green Team member whose primary responsibilities include daily clean-up of all site and restroom facilities for the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival to ensure an excellent audience experience of the venue. 

What You’ll Do in the Role:

The Green Team will be responsible for the following in addition to any other project as assigned by the Green Team Leader and Site Manager:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure the site is clean and tidy throughout and ready for venue opening each day.


• Pick-up, sort, and bag trash and recycling through all performances


• Ensure all trash cans are emptied, properly placed, bagged, and ready for venue opening each day.


• Ensure all restrooms and portable toilets are clean, stocked, and ready for heavy daily use.


• Continuously monitor the site and tents throughout all performances, ensuring that garbage is picked up, tables are clean, and signage and furniture are tidy.


• Load garbage trucks at the end of each performance.


• Communicate with Green Team Leader and Site Manager about needed site repairs and/or other site issues.


• Work in a safe, efficient, and professional manner.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to lift up to 30 pounds.


• Ability to be on one's feet and walk festival grounds and nearby vicinity.


• Willingness to work outdoors, early mornings, late nights, long days, and weekend shifts, and to work in inclement weather.

You’ll Bring these Skills and Strengths to the Role:

• Mission & Values Alignment: A passion for BRIC’s support of the arts in Brooklyn and a deep commitment to building community, igniting learning and making change through the arts and creativity.


• Commitment to Equity & Inclusion: Ability to work with a diverse team and act in the job with fairness and inclusivity.


• Experience & Skills: The ideal candidate has good interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, and is able to work steadily and in inclement weather. A minimum of two years of previous experience as a Maintenance/Janitorial Worker for a venue, school, or other large capacity facility is preferred. Bilingual a plus. 


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Other Things to Know:

• Compensation: The hourly salary for this position is $17.50 / hour.


• Status and location: This is a seasonal role based at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park. The time commitment for this position is expected to be June 4-September, Thursday through Saturdays with some weekdays included


• Mission & Values: BRIC is committed to building Brooklyn's creative future. We advance opportunities for visual artists, performers, and media makers. We present bold work that reflects diverse audiences and speaks to the world. We ignite learning in people of all ages. We unite Brooklyn through art and creativity to build community and make change.

How to Apply:

All applicants must submit a resume together with a cover letter outlining the ways in which their skills and experience align with our specific needs via our online application portal found on our website. Candidates of color and from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

BRIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot be used as a basis for an employment decision.