Position Description:
Overview:
The Associate Manager of Collections Education is the primary education team member of the Treasures planning team. This position is the main content creator for all field trip activities, web-related materials and all other educational content for the Treasures exhibit and other collections-based field trip activities in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, and eventually, neighborhood library sites.
Responsibilities:
- Works with other members of the Treasures team to conceptualize program vision, goals and objectives
- Works with Digital Users team, Exhibitions team, outside design firm, collections curators and Children’s Center staff to: select artifacts; designs activities and other programming; and builds out digital presence for Treasures exhibit and other visits to research collections that will resonate with youth audience
- Works with the Department of Education and individual schools to assess the curricular needs of P-12 audiences to help determine the most engaging and educational programming and activities for visits to the Treasures and other research collections
- Supervises other field trip instructors and maintains quality control of program delivery
- Collects and analyzes program data
- Drafts program descriptions and otherwise lend assistance to program fundraising efforts; and works with Communications and Marketing staff to advertise the program
- Other related duties as required
Key Competencies:
Accountability and Professionalism
Customer Service
Collaboration and Teamwork
Job-Specific Knowledge and Skills
Leadership and Management
Qualifications:
- Masters degree in Museum Education or other relevant degree and two years’ relevant work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience directly working with children, using artifacts to teach, and developing and implementing educational programming for varied age groups
- Strong customer service orientation with an ability to deal professionally and tactfully with a variety of individuals in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and verbal and written communication skills required; strong attention to detail needed
- Strong time management skills with ability effectively manage projects with competing deadlines; ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments, with a high degree of accuracy
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible, proactive, resourceful and efficient using a high level of professionalism, discretion and confidentiality
- Effective decision-making skills
- Successfully demonstrated supervisory experience
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Prior experience in a public library, cultural organization or not-for-profit preferred and program/project management experience preferred
- Experience in digital media creation preferred
Work Environment:
Office setting
Physical Duties:
May involve some light physical labor such as the moving of supply boxes
Hours:
Monday-Friday
9:00am-5:00pm
Evenings and weekends as required
Schedule subject to change
Union / Non Union:
Non Union
Please use this link to apply online:https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/8437/associate-manager%2c-exhibitions-education/job?mode=view
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