Gallery Educator

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Description: Gallery Education Volunteers bring passion, skills, and special talents to work closely
with museum staff to provide a quality, fun, engaging, inclusive, science experience for museum
guests - encouraging and assisting them as they interact with exhibits and in labs.

Responsibilities:

• Create a welcoming, friendly, supportive environment for museum guests of all ages
• Engage guests of all ages with amazing science content, stories, and activities as they explore the museum
• Work in Speed, Boost!, Traveling Exhibits, and other museum areas interpreting content
• Engage guests with tabletop science activities
• Monitor busy exhibits - make sure guests are taking turns, wearing masks, and social distancing a well as using equipment properly
• Greet guests as they arrive, assisting guests as they pick up their tickets
• Direct guests to other exhibits, staff members, volunteers or resources which can provide additional information
• Work in our exhibits and encourage guests to try the "hands-on" exhibits and activities. Explain or demonstrate the best way to operate them

Qualifications:

• An enthusiastic, out-going personality and a desire to work with people of all ages
• Bilingual in Spanish a plus
• Enjoy engaging in conversations about science, technology, engineering and math
• Knowledge of, or willingness to learn about, science, technology, engineering and math
• Willingness to initiate interactions with strangers
• Ability to work with little supervision
• Dependable and responsible
• Flexibility and patience
• Must agree to and sign the Volunteer Agreement and the Health and Safety Agreement.
• All volunteers over the age of 18 must undergo a background check before onboarding.

Training: All volunteers must attend one of the scheduled orientations. More in-depth
departmental training will begin on your first scheduled day.

Minimum Age: 14

Time Commitment/Hours:
Must be able to commit to a consistent, regular schedule (once a week or once every other week)
for a minimum of six months.

Preferred Shift times: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 12:30-4:30 p.m.