Assistant Educator
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Located on Colgate University's beautiful campus in Hamilton,
New York, the collection of the Picker Art Gallery features approximately
11,000 objects from antiquity to the present, including approximately 8,000
works on paper, 1,400 photographs, 900 paintings, and 300 sculptures. Colgate
University is one of the country's leading liberal arts colleges, with a
student population of about 2,900 and 300 faculty. This is an exciting time in
Colgate's history. The Picker Art Gallery and the Longyear Museum of
Anthropology are distinguished university museums that play a significant role
in Colgate's teaching mission and reputation, a relationship that will be
deepened with the Museum Studies Minor in the Department of Art and Art
History.
This
is an entry level position. The educator is responsible for developing,
implementing, and coordinating major educational initiatives, establishing
short and long-term goals and objectives, working with Colgate students and
faculty, K-12 teachers, students, docents, and community members; facilitating
community partnerships; establishing interpretive programs and resources for
exhibitions and serving as an integral member of Colgate University Museum's
team.
The
successful candidate is creative, forward thinking, and a highly motivated team
player who enjoys working with our docents and community members.
Please
visit the Museum's website at:
http://www.colgate.edu/campus-life/arts-oncampus/picker-art-gallery.
The
position is accountable for assisting with the development, implementation and
coordination of university museums educational initiatives to fulfill the
institutions' mission, raise its visibility, and engage with communities in
order to promote dialog and foster understanding of all cultures. Accountable
for establishing short and long-term goals and objectives related to museum
educational programs for students, faculty, K-12 students, teachers, docents,
and community members, facilitating community partnerships, and establishing
interpretive programs and resources for museum exhibitions to ensure programs
are geared towards our audiences, to address communities' needs, train our
students, and gain additional volunteers to maximize our offerings.
Specific
accountabilities will include:
• Researching, developing, implementing and evaluating both existing and new
and innovative educational programming. Coordinating scheduling and budget.
• Leading all educational programming, using various outreach methods.
• Fostering innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration, throughout campus
and the local and regional museum communities, and advocating for excellence in
the field of museum education.
• Coordinating volunteer program to include recruitment and training.
Supervising volunteers and student interns.
It is the policy of
Colgate University not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for
employment on the basis of their race, color, creed, religion, age, sex,
pregnancy, national origin, marital status, disability, protected Veteran
Status, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, genetic
information, victims of domestic violence and stalking, familial status, and
all other categories covered by law. This policy shall apply to all employment
actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading,
promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or
other forms of compensation and selection for training at all levels of
employment. Colgate University will not discharge or discriminate against
employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their own
compensation or the compensation of another employee or applicant. Colgate
University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities/Females/Persons with
Disabilities/Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.
• Must have a Bachelor's
degree (preferably in Education, Art History, Anthropology, History, Museum
Studies) and a demonstrated knowledge of educational practices.
• Master's degree
or post baccalaureate certificate in education, museum studies, art history or
anthropology, studio art, and/or teacher's certificate is preferred.
Professional
Experience/Qualifications
• A demonstrated knowledge of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS).
• Previous experience in organizing and managing
programs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills,
including presentation and instruction skills.
• Must be capable of working collegially with a
diverse group of faculty, staff, students and community members on a daily
basis.
• Experience in designing and implement programs
for public audiences.
• Knowledge of museum interpretation and current
and future trends in education.
• Strong aptitude to learn University
organizational, systems and process knowledge.
• Demonstrated experience in working with the
public.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google
programs.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in grant writing.
• Experience in a museum, gallery or other
educational field.
• Experience with museum collections, ideally
university museum collections.
• Experience working with museum database systems.
• Experience in supervising and/or coordinating
students and volunteers.
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