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Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design and facilitate high-quality, engaging, and interactive drop-in activities and workshops for intergenerational audiences.
- Deliver a creative approach to designing hands-on activities related to the Museum’s exhibitions and NYC history, arts, and culture
- Plan and deliver family days and festivals
- Develop family program strategy in collaboration with the Assistant Director of Youth and Family Learning, and in consultation with the VP of Education and Engagement
- Coordinate with outside stakeholders, when needed, to support the successful delivery of family programs
- Handle program logistics and interdepartmental collaboration, including setting up before and cleaning up after each session, ensuring participants complete evaluations, and documenting attendance and supply inventory and ensuring smooth event flow.
- Ordering materials for programs as needed
- Participate in and contribute to training and discussions around family engagement, which may involve content, pedagogy, and best practices for distinct populations
- Incorporate new skills and learning into their facilitation and participate in reflective facilitation practices
- Ensure programs and content are in alignment with the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) framework, ensuring that the Museum provides and supports learner-centered environments that affirm racial, linguistic, and cultural identities
- Perform other duties as needed
A successful candidate will have:
- 3-5 years of experience working with children ages 3-12
- Experience creatively developing and implementing programs for family audiences.
- Prior experience working in a museum or cultural setting
- Previous teaching experience or experience working with intergenerational audiences in a direct service capacity
- Ability to work with stakeholders and share authority in planning programs
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, specifically with school children
- Experience and comfort using digital communication platforms (Zoom, Google Meet, etc.)
- Fluency in Spanish is valued, but not required
Benefits:
- The annual salary for this position is $60,000. The position offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, life insurance, 401K and a defined benefit pension plan, short and long-term disability, and an Employee Assistance Program, with options for critical illness insurance, accident insurance, legal services, and pet insurance. The Museum provides a paid time off policy that includes 10 days of annual leave, rising to 15 days in year 2, and to 20 days in year 3, plus 12 sick days per year and 12 holidays. Your employment relationship with the Museum qualifies you for free or discounted admissions to other participating cultural institutions.
