Supervisor – Museum Education [University of Massachusetts Lowell – Tsongas Industrial History Center]

The Museum Education Supervisor is a member of the Tsongas Industrial History Center management team. This position is responsible for ensuring high-quality museum education through monitoring the teaching effectiveness of 25-30 part-time museum teaching staff and contributing to improvements to TIHC education programs.

1. Directly supervising museum teachers, including writing interim and end-of-year performance evaluations based on frequent observations of the teaching of education programs.
2. Taking a lead role in museum teacher hiring and staff professional development, including planning (and conducting parts of) the training for new museum teachers and updating staff training notebooks as needed.
3. Contributing to ongoing program improvements to such elements as curriculum materials, workshop spaces, and tour components.
4. Reviewing program evaluations returned by classroom teachers and responding as appropriate.
5. Timekeeping (ensuring museum teachers’ reported hours equal actual number of hours worked).
6. Promote the University’s commitment to customer service by:
– Building effective partnerships with co-workers throughout the University by freely sharing appropriate information and providing assistance when needed.
– Ensuring optimum service to all internal and external partners in response to all requests for service and information.
– Maintaining an environment that is welcoming to persons of all backgrounds, nationalities, and roles.
7. Performs other related duties as assigned.
This is a one-year, renewable position, contingent upon funding.

Education/Experience:
– Bachelor’s Degree (minimum; Master’s preferred) in education, museum education, or a related field, and at least four years’ experience teaching in formal or informal education settings (classroom teacher, museum educator, teacher for outside-of-school-time programs).
Skills:
– Knowledge of current theory and best practices in education, especially museum-based education
– Demonstrated ability to supervise educators in ways that lead to highly effective teaching
– Excellent oral and written communication skills; fluent in English
– Excellent interpersonal skills

– Knowledge of current theory and best practices in education, especially museum-based education.
– Demonstrated ability to supervise educators in ways that lead to highly effective teaching.
– Able to build trusting relationships with supervisees
– Able to communicate commendations and recommendations in ways that lead to teaching effectiveness and good morale.
– Able to be collaborative and flexible in a partnership organization (UMass Lowell Graduate School of Education / Lowell National Historical Park).
– Excellent oral and written communication skills; fluent in English.
– Able to work effectively with diverse groups.  

Please note: In order to be considered an official applicant, you must submit your application online through our applicant tracking system and by the application deadline date specified in the posting.