K-12 Coordinator

About the role

The K-12 Coordinator is responsible for managing and helping develop K-12 and family educational offerings. They will manage in-person school visits and help develop new programs and partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Manage K-12 field trips by helping book experiences, communicating with teachers, and coordinating visit logistics.
• Work to develop new curricula that is standards-aligned, creative, object and phenomenon based, and promotes critical thinking.
• Collaborate with the Director to create and collect evaluations and data on educational programs to make improvements and keep records.
• Oversee existing summer camps by functioning as the director of summer camps.
• Work with the Director to establish new relationships with teachers, other museum education departments, and cultivate new community partnerships.
• Work with the Volunteer Manager to staff volunteers on K-12 programs.
• Lead educational programs as necessary.
• Help plan and execute educational events with the rest of the team.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 1 year of experience working in an informal education setting, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.
• Demonstrated experience in creating innovative standard-based curriculum and programming for a variety of learning styles in an informal educational setting.
• Demonstrated experience partnering and co-teaching with volunteers, students, and other professionals on educational programming.
• Demonstrated experience working in an interdisciplinary environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, museum studies, museum education, or similar field.
• 2+ years working in a museum environment as an educator and coordinator with field trips.
• Demonstrated experience supervising staff, particularly informal educators, or serving in leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success in creating innovative educational curriculum or programming in a museum in both the natural and social sciences.
• Interest, ability, and experience collecting and analyzing data.