Job Description
Rate of Pay: $17.00 Status: Open Until January 10, 2025 This is an administrative position within the City Manager’s Office under the general direction and control of the City Manager but reports directly to and is supervised by the Museum Director. The employee is responsible for planning and implementing all Marietta History Center educational and public programming. Facilitates and conducts school and group tours of the museum. Produces marketing materials for programs and events. Facilitates the coordination and training of History Center volunteers. Assists other staff with social media schedule and posts. Greets visitors, collects entrance fees, offers general information to visitors, scheduled groups, and telephone callers. The employee performs sales services for admissions and Museum Store. Assists with fundraisers, special events, classes, tours, and assists with facility rentals. - Works closely with the Museum Director to formulate a vision and goals for the museum’s education and public programming.
- Works closely with staff to develop programs, interpretation, and interactive elements that supplement and enrich exhibitions.
- Designs and actively participates in the implementation of all education and public programming at the History Center, which includes guided adult tours, school group programs, author/scholar talks, book signings, preschool tours, Members’ only events, and off-site programs.
- Prioritize incorporating untold and underrepresented stories from our community’s past into all programming.
- Collaborates and schedules community members, authors, and scholars for public programs.
- Gives organized presentations to schools, businesses, and community organizations on local history and the History Center.
- Assures the History Center’s educational programs and activities are diverse, inclusive, accessible, and relevant to the community.
- Provides a report on public and educational programming at staff meetings.
Volunteer Coordination: - Collaborates with other staff on refining, monitoring, and evaluating volunteer services.
- Provides and schedules orientation training, on-going training, and group activities for volunteers in visitor engagement and best museum practices.
- Assists training in Museum Store functions (such as the Point-of-Sale system and inventory counts), guest engagement with the public and specialized training for other duties as needed.
- Schedules volunteers for daily shifts and special events as needed.
- Serves as primary point of contact for volunteers. Identifies the skills and interest of each volunteer and works to create an engaging and welcoming environment.
- Receives, maintains, and secures all necessary paperwork for volunteers including liability waivers and emergency contacts.
- Works with other staff to identify volunteer opportunities.
- Promotes and encourages volunteers through relationship building, service recognition, and timely communication.
- Actively recruits volunteers by setting up booths at community events and creating marketing pieces specifically for recruitment.
- Designs, authors, and emails quarterly volunteer newsletters.
- Provides a report on volunteer updates and recruitment at staff meetings.
Marketing: - Assist History Center staff in designing event postcards, advertisements, posters, and other marketing material as needed.
- Assists History Center staff with writing press releases relating to public programming.
- Work with History Center staff in sending marketing material to appropriate media outlets.
- Collaborate with History Center staff on a social media plan with consistent post schedule and format.
Additional Job Functions: - Greet exhibit visitors, provide general exhibit information to visitors, and answer phone inquiries.
- Preform opening and closing procedures for the Museum Store, exhibit galleries and other public spaces within the History Center.
- Perform other related duties as needed.
Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in public history, Museum Studies, Education (or a similar field), Museum Education or similar coursework with a minimum of three years’ museum education, education and/or volunteer coordinating experience.
- Must be knowledgeable in U.S. history with Georgia history preferred
- Knowledgeable of educational standards, ideally of the Cobb County and City of Marietta school systems for grades K-12.
- Must have graphic design experience with public examples of their work, preferably of educational materials, newsletters, social media content and presentations.
- Must possess excellent public relations skills and the general ability to communicate with, educate and excite people from diverse backgrounds about history.
- Must possess an understanding of and commitment to justice, equality, inclusion, accessibility, and diversity practices and embedding those practices throughout all your work.
- Ability to communicate and work effectively with diverse audiences, respecting diverse lived experiences, and viewpoints.
- Must have working knowledge with Canva, Microsoft Office Suite, familiarity of and regular use in social media platforms.
- Must be available to work four days a week, Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm schedule, Saturdays are required.
- Ability to work unscheduled hours during weekends and evenings.
- Must have a valid class “C” Georgia driver's license and a satisfactory seven-year driving history to include no DUIs in the last five years.
Disclaimer Successful candidates are required to submit to drug screen & background inquiry.
Job Tags
Part time, Local area, Shift work, Weekend work, Saturday, Afternoon shift,