Museum Educator

PostSeptember 2017

The Museum Educator has primary responsibility for the design, coordination, and implementation of education programs and outreach for the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden in Flushing, Queens. The Museum occupies an 1890s immigrant family's home. It offers a variety of educational programs that integrate house and garden and take an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating history, environmental science, and art.

The Museum Educator works with the Director to advance learning and interpretive strategies and marshal resources to meet museum goals.This is a permanent part-time position, 21-24hours a week through 2017and 28 hours starting in January 2018, at $22.60 per hour, with benefits.

Responsibilities

  • Continuously improve and expand VOM existing educational programs to support the mission of the museum and better meet the needs of New York City students
  • Develop, pilot, and evaluate new programsfor family and school audiences
  • Ongoing assessment of education programs: quality, budget, participation, audience interest, relevance
  • Manage the education team, teaching when needed and developing and coordinating instructors, teaching artists, consultants, interns, and volunteers
  • Serve on the Education Planning Committee, documenting its activities and progress
  • Maintain administrative systems to track contacts, instructors, supplies, volunteers, and facilities
  • With Director, formulate outreach and community engagement strategies and guide their implementation
  • Work with staff to develop marketing strategies and materials to publicize programs
  • Assist the Director in developing grant prospects and proposals
  • Provide educational perspective in the interpretation of period rooms and exhibitions
  • Represent the Museum in professional networks

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience developing and delivering programs for school and community audiences
  • BA/BS minimum. Candidates working towards advanced degrees are welcome
  • Experience in museum education, history, art history, museum studies, or a humanities-related field
  • Supervisory or team-leadership experience in managing programs and projects
  • Understanding of current NYS educationalstandards and current learning skills
  • Knowledge of visual learning strategies and query-based interpretation
  • Strong organizational and communications skills
  • Initiative, resourcefulness, and creativity
  • Capacity to work with a small but dedicated staff with respect and collegiality
  • Long term and short term planning capabilities, with proven ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to work effectively with diverse audiences
  • Ability to attend some programs and meetings during non-business hours.
  • Comfort with technology and social media, and fluency in a Microsoft Office computer environment

To apply

Submit a letter of interest, resume, and two references, with attachments in Word or PDF. Send to the Museum’s Director, Deborah Silverfine, at and reference “Museum Educator” in the subject heading. Please be advised that we intend to fill the position in the Fall, allowing time to overlap with the current Educator.

The Voelker Orth Museum (VOM) recruits and hires employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or sexual preference, and treats all employees equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement, including upgrading, or promotion. VOM supports the Americans with Disabilities Act, and will take such measures insofar as possible to assist employees who need accommodation. VOM is a drug-and alcohol-free workplace and has a strict policy against sexual harassment. Reference checks are conducted for all positions. Equal Opportunity Employer.

For more information,visit

149-19 38th AvenueFlushing, NY 11354(718) 359-6227  vomuseum.org