Early Childhood Gallery Specialist

Denver Museum of Nature & Science • Denver, CO

9d • $23 • Onsite

About The Position

Are you passionate about sparking curiosity and joy in young learners? Join our team as the Early Childhood Gallery Specialist and help make the Museum an amazing place for young guests and their grownups! The Early Childhood Gallery Specialist will join the Adult and Family Programs team to support fun and interactive play-based learning in the Discovery Zone and other early childhood programs and spaces. In this role, you will: Host and engage with guests in the Discovery Zone through informal education and activity facilitation. Organize supplies and program materials, ensuring everything is ordered, clean, and ready to be used. Collaborate with teammates to support and present early childhood and family programs. This role will primarily be based in a high energy space and require a large amount of guest interaction in public facing spaces. The Early Childhood Gallery Specialist will work closely with our Educators, Operations Specialists and Program Coordinators to ignite a passion for nature and science for kids and their grownups!

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent work experience
• 1 year experience in program coordination
• Ability to work weekends and evenings for programs and events

Nice To Haves

• Experience working or volunteering with early childhood audiences (ages 0-8)
• Experience working or volunteering with early childhood audiences (ages 0-8)
• Experience facilitating in an informal education space
• Excitement and passion for working with young learners
• Bilingual

Responsibilities

• Audience Engagement Actively engages with guests in the gallery and helps create a welcoming and inclusive environment.
• Support shows, facilitations, and informal engagement alongside the Educator Performers.
• Facilitates and delivers programming for early childhood (ages 0-8) and family audience
• Hosts/coordinates events and programs by acting as team lead, ensuring internal teams and partners have needed materials and information through collaborating, supporting, seeing frontline experience, being present point of contact for problem-solving, checking-in with team, and/or leading event.
• Program Operations and Logistics Prepares the Discovery Zone for daily operations by ensuring program supplies, props and materials are clean, fully stocked, and set up for guests to use.
• Monitors the Discovery Zone to ensure each element is working as intended and collaborates with coordinators and managers to address gap.
• Demonstrates professional autonomy through in-the-moment decision making, adaptation and ongoing assessment of audience needs and interests.
• Content Creation Contributes to the development of new Museum experiences and updates of existing experiences in conjunction with project teams.
• Participation may include: ideation/research; prototyping; creative input; curriculum/script writing; experience development (i.e. special events, programs, exhibits, guides); evaluation; remediation/refinement.
• Ensures content is audience centered, accurate and age-appropriate, aligned with Museum mission, community themes and values, and DEAI practice, and stays fluent in ongoing community research and engagement strategies.
• Responsive to audience input, prototype outcomes and professional input, including the ability to abandon preconceptions and pivot when needed.

Benefits

• Click HERE (https://www.dmns.org/about/careers/benefits/) to learn more about the benefits package offered to DMNS staff.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED