Museum Education Specialist (Part-time)

MOS CODES: NONE

Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Education, Marketing, Public Relations, History, Borderlands Studies, or a related field, and one (1) year of teaching, training, or public information experience.

Licenses and Certificates: Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state by the time of appointment.

Under general direction, develop, conduct, administer, and supervise museum education programs.

Research, plan, develop, and conduct museum education programs. Involves: Maintain liaison and coordinate education activities with area schools and school districts. Conduct tours and lectures, and live presentations at the museum, schools, and civic groups using education collections and exhibits. Develops printed educational materials used for presentations. Provides training for staff development, recruits, trains, and coordinates volunteers participating in education programs.

Supports education initiatives. Involves: Recommending the acquisition of books, periodicals, audio-visual, and other materials for the museum library. Overseeing the addition, removal, replacement, or preservation of museum library materials. Supporting museum marketing coordinator and graphic designer with research and text development for signs, exhibit graphics, brochures, and other public information devices. Provides translation of graphics, reports, and other educational devices or literature. Maintain and cultivate outside resources available to support museum education programs, including local colleges, universities, professional groups and associations, governmental agencies, and others. Assist in presentations that enhance public information and community relations. Responds to general information inquiries and correspondence. 

Supervise assigned staff and volunteers. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide, and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, discipline, or other employee status changes. Assist other museum sections to accomplish core mission goals, meet emergency needs or as assigned.

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Note:  Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately.  This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.

Important Note: The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.  
 
Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam.
 
Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates.

Note: This is a part-time position.

Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history.  We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.  

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.