Senior Manager, School and Family Programs

We are a private non-profit institution that transforms understanding of the history and impact of architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and design.

The National Building Museum educates, entertains, and engages people about the built environment and challenges them to advocate for a sustainable and equitable future.

Position Description

Under the direction of the Director of Youth Programs and Engagement, this position leads the conceptualization, development, implementation, evaluation strategy and operational plans for PK-12 and intergenerational family programs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Conceptualizes, plans, and executes facilitated and self-guided interdisciplinary education and family focused programs that build upon museum exhibits, installations, collection items, and programmatic goals.

School Programs (75%)

• Oversee all aspects related to School Programs, including on-site school class visits, satellite school programs, summer camp groups, and revenue goals.
• Manage museum educators, and substitutes for educators when needed.
• Works with Senior Youth Programs Coordinator to develop and implement quantitative and qualitative evaluations for programs.
• Generates reports using attendance data and qualitative evaluation to be used in determining direction for school and family programs.
• Trains museum educators and new staff on core school programs; observes and evaluates educators on a semi-annual basis.
• Work with community partners to develop, implement, and evaluate programming outside the Field Trip program for a school audience. This includes Transform DC, ISDC, and more.
• Works with Director of Youth Programs and Engagement to strategize and plan the short-term and long-term direction of field trip content, program format, learning objectives and lesson plans

Family Programs (20%)

• Work with Director of Youth Programs and Engagement to develop short and long-term vision for family programming.
• Adapt short and long-term vision for family programming into a robust schedule of programs where you will be responsible for managing you and your team's development, implementation and assessment for each program.
• Manage existing roster of family programs including Girl Scouts, Gingerbread Workshop, Just Drop In! Workshops, School’s Out Programming, Storytime, Building Reader’s Club, and Little Builders.
• Alongside other members of the team, plays a major role in the planning and implementation of the museums at two major family festivals, The Big Build and the Big Draw.

Other Duties (5%)

• Monitor and maintain annual budgets established with the Director of Youth Programs.
• Manage communication about school and family programming across the Museum, especially with Marketing and Communications, Development, Collections and Visitor Services departments.
• Work with the Director of Youth Programs & Engagement to assist development in crafting pitch documents, grant applications, program budgets, and program assessments. Meet with funders as necessary.
• Develop a museum educator training program and model for continuing professional development opportunities for education staff.
• Other duties as assigned.