ASSISTANT MUSEUM EDUCATOR
Reports to: Tiff Beatty, Program Director of Arts, Culture and Public Policy
Job Status: Part-time (~20 hours per week) contractor, temporary
Hourly Rate: $35 per hour
Estimated Dates of Employment: July 11 - September 23, 2022 (10 weeks*)
*Note, NPHM may adjust employment timeline, as mutually agreed upon.
Application deadline: July 1, 2022
Application instructions: Submit your resume, cover letter and 2 references to jobs@nphm.org with the subject line “Assistant Museum Educator, [YOUR NAME]”
Are you someone who is:
- Committed to transforming cultural institutions to be more inclusive and accessible?
- Passionate about collaborative and equitable approaches to education and interpretation?
- Interested in amplifying voices and narratives from public housing communities for social advocacy, organizing, and policy transformation?
- Organized and experienced with project management?
- An excellent communicator and problem-solver?
If so, then the National Public Housing Museum is looking for you.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Assistant Museum Educator works to develop, implement, and execute inclusive, intergenerational, educational, social justice and equity-driven training programs, workshops, events, and engagement. This position works under the supervision of the Program Director of Arts, Culture, and Public Policy. The assistant educator will work with the NPHM programs team (Programs and Events Coordinator, Oral History Archive Manager, Entrepreneurship Hub Working Group), as well as interns, contractors, community partners, and resident-leaders.
The successful candidate demonstrates a passion for and experience in program management, learning, and youth development. This position simultaneously helps coordinate program and session logistics while creating a safe, generative learning environment for youth, adults, and seniors, helping to cultivate meaningful connections between program participants and workshop leaders, and ensuring participants find value in the programs.
Candidates with previous experience with public housing as a resident and/or some other meaningful connection are preferred. The ideal candidate actively participates in resisting the privileging of dominant and mainstream narratives, values radical hospitality, and embraces diverse ways of seeing and knowing. Additionally, they will have a commitment to cultural activism and social justice, as well as a curiosity about storytelling as an act of resistance against white supremacy and other forms of oppression.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Help coordinate and communicate logistics to diverse groups of participants, as well as workshop leaders and partners for the Beauty Turner Oral History Academy, Entrepreneurship Hub, and other NPHM programs.
- Help develop and facilitate virtual training, workshops, events and other Museum engagement activities, including team-building, workshop debriefs and critique sessions.
- Build relationships with program participants, community partners, and resident-leaders.
- Develop “Ambassadors” on social media platforms, such as admins of Facebook groups, to amplify museum announcements and outreach
- Provide support to workshop leaders, trainers, and presenters.
- Serve as a mentor, leader, educator, and guide to participants—youth, in particular.
- Support evaluation and monitoring of program goals and outcomes.
- Help with data collection, data entry, file management and other administrative duties.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be Chicago-based, at present this position is primarily remote with some in-person work required
- During the pandemic, most training, workshops, and events have been conducted virtually. To best engage the largest cross-section of our stakeholder community as possible, these types of programming will transition back to in-person as pandemic conditions allow.
- Interest in and enthusiasm for the history of public housing. Previous experience with public housing as a resident and/or other meaningful connection preferred.
- Commitment to cultural activism and organizing
- Experience in successful project and/or program management
- Exceptional oral and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to take initiative and be a self-starter
- Outstanding intergenerational relationship-building skills
- Experience working in youth development and respect for young people
The Assistant Museum Educator reports to Tiff Beatty, Program Director of Arts, Culture, and Public Policy.
The National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) is the first cultural institution in the United States dedicated to interpreting the American experience in public housing and the right to all people to a place they can call home. The Museum’s mission is to preserve, promote, and propel public housing as a human right and all of our partnerships and programs are committed to amplifying the voices, experiences, and stories of public housing residents. Ultimately, we believe that storytelling can be a catalyst for innovative public policy solutions that are responsive to people’s needs and lived experiences.