Leap Museum Educator

Description:

This position is part of the Lyndon Economic opportunity AmeriCorps Program (LEAP). LEAP is a national service program that places AmeriCorps members with non-profit organizations throughout the Northeast Kingdom (NEK) of Vermont to support those organizations in expanding their services that many communities rely on. LEAP supports their members in their path to educational and career attainment through direct service, on-going trainings, and professional development opportunities offered during the service year. This is a Half Time service position requiring the completion of 900 service hours, about 40 hours/week. Compensation: living allowance of $8,000 (pre-tax) paid bi-weekly during service term. Upon successful completion of term, Education Award of $3,247.50 (pre-tax). Other benefits include training opportunities and professional development. The Museum Educator will be charged with updating the museum’s tour outline for mixed-age tour groups as well as designing and implementing a tour outline for school-age groups. The Museum Educator will give daily tours to a variety of audiences, including mixed, pre-scheduled groups and school groups. The Museum educator will develop a STEAM focused tour option specifically for school groups. The Museum Educator will also hire and supervise two to three “middle school museum professionals”. The overall intent of this portion of the Museum Educator’s service is to help build awareness and exposure; that the field of museum studies and careers to follow is a worthy and feasible pursuit, as is service through the AmeriCorps program! Lastly, the Museum Educator will collaborate with the Collections and Archive team to organize and cultivate thematic collections to be used for educational purposes by our education staff.