Position Summary:
Join the UA Museum of the North's Education and Public Programs team! Share your passions for art, culture, and natural history. Work with educators, families, and youth to facilitate connections to museum collections.
Duties:
Educational Programming: Facilitate learning opportunities for community members, students, and families. Create and deliver content for museum family programs, school outreach, and events.Museum Kits and Teaching Collection: Maintain museum kits. Inventory kit contents and regularly assess for maintenance and content update needs. Enter collections objects into object database and track loans in database. Maintain accurate records. Reach out to school and homeschool audiences to promote kit program and model use. Manage loans.
The UA Museum of the North seeks a part-time outreach specialist. As a member of the Education and Public Programs division, the outreach specialist will facilitate learning opportunities for community members, students, and families. The outreach specialist will work on family programming and event planning including Junior Curators, after school outreach, and other events and projects as assigned. Work includes content creation, creating and maintaining partnerships, and working with the public. The outreach specialist will also work with the museum’s educational kit program: maintaining kits, updating the object and loan database, reaching out to school and homeschool audiences, and managing loans.

Attention to detail is crucial. Ability to work collaboratively and with diverse audiences is necessary.

This is a part-time, non-exempt, temporary position. New hires will be placed on the UA staff temporary salary schedule, Grade 77, based on education and experience.

REQUIRED EDUCATION OR TRAINING: At least one year of teaching or interpretive experience, in either a formal or informal learning environment.

APPLICANT INSTRUCTIONS: Please submit a resume, cover letter, and contact information for three professional references. This position is open until filled with the application reviews happening as needed.

To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction. Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

UAF COVID Requirements:

Effective immediately, all new UAF hires, whose job function or work location results in the employee being subject to the UAF vaccine requirements guided by the Federal Contractor Employee vaccine mandate*, must be fully vaccinated with an FDA- or WHO- authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccine or have obtained a university-approved disability/medical or religious exemption no later than six weeks from the new hire's start date.

*Employees based on UAF’s Troth Yeddha’ (Fairbanks) campus, regardless of university affiliation and remote work status; Employees based in UAF research units outside Fairbanks (including Seward Marine Center, Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, HAARP, Poker Flat, Lena Point, and Toolik Field Station); and Employees, regardless of their work location, paid by or directly working on impacted UAF federal contract.

The University of Alaska (UA) is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact UA Human Resources by phone at 907-450-8200.

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The successful applicant is required to complete a background check. Any offer of employment is contingent on the background check.

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