Education and Curatorial Associate

Job Description:

Education and Curatorial Associate

Description

Requirements

MOS Code: None

Education and Experience : A Bachelor's Degree or higher in Fine Art, Arts Administration, Art Education, Art History, Business or Public Administration or a related field, plus one (1) year of experience in a museum, nonprofit arts or cultural organization, school, or educational institution.

Licenses and Certificates : Valid Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state.

General Purpose

Under general supervision, provide administrative support for the cultural center’s or museum's education department and curatorial department projects; and oversee educational initiatives and strengthen community partnerships.

Typical Duties

Develop, coordinate and implement initiatives for the cultural center’s or museum's educational programs and curatorial projects. Involves: Assist in developing and coordinating large and complex programs and events and exhibition installations. Design and write promotional material to disseminate museum educational programs and projects. Develop press releases, gallery guides and other written materials for publication and distribution for print and social media. Actively promote educational programs on social media. Develop newsletters and email blasts to help broaden the cultural center’s or museum's outreach to the community. Coordinate plans, promotions, and gallery events. Attend meetings, conferences and events to represent the department.

Administer and coordinate the scholarship program. Involves: Work with the public and schools to help schedule tours and docent guides and register students for art classes. Coordinate bus transportation for schools to visit the cultural center or museum and complimentary tuition for students to attend Cultural Center or Art School offerings. Conduct community outreach. Attend city and community events to provide the public with information on cultural center or museum educational programs and events.

Perform related duties assigned. Involves: performing specified duties during temporary absences of supervisor, coworkers, or subordinates as qualified to maintain continuity of normal operations, if assigned; maintaining activity records and preparing related reports; assisting supervisor in training and orienting less knowledgeable employees by explaining and demonstrating job duties performed.

May supervise assigned and volunteer personnel. Involves: Schedule, assign, guide and check work. Appraise employee performance. Engage in or arrange for employee training and development. Enforce personnel rules and regulations, department policies, and work standards regarding attendance and conduct. Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.

General Information

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Note : This is an unclassified contract position.

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

Note: Applicants with a foreign degree 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.

Determined by agreement

Closing Date/Time: 5/27/2025 11:59 PM Mountain

Salary:

$43,370.00 - $65,370.00 Annually