Summer Playologist

Department: Visitor Experience

Status: Seasonal/Part-Time/Non-Exempt

Reports to: Visitor Experience Manager & Playologist Supervisor

Compensation: Starting at $15.75 hourly

Seasonal Playologists are stationed on the museum floor to ensure a safe and engaging experience for children and their caregivers. This includes responding to visitor’s inquiries, following and enforcing all policies and procedures and promoting a museum environment that is experiential, participatory and interactive. Shifts, ranging from 16 to 28 hours per week, occur during weekday mornings and afternoons, weekends, and holidays as well as monthly First Friday evenings, as well as our extended member nights and evening events.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engage visitors with high energy to share educational value of exhibits and museum’s mission
• Assist with daily set-up and cleaning of exhibit spaces
• Maintain current knowledge of museum exhibits, program content and safety protocol
• Show a professional manner while working on the floor and running classes/programs
• Facilitate Play while social distancing
• Ability to effectively engage all visitors with different learning styles
• Practical understanding of ages and stages of child development
• Effectively implement museum policies and procedures
• Greet field trips and explain museum manners
• High level of comfort with public speaking specifically in the facilitation of Story Time, Pop Up Programs, and Living Labs,
• Complete required Visitor Experience training
• Attend museum wide All Staff Meetings
• Create an EPIC visitor experience!
• Facilitates Museum programming as assigned in our classrooms, KIDchen, Children’s Garden, Living Laboratory, and pop-up programs throughout the Museum
• Maintains current knowledge of program content being delivered
• Prepare and maintain materials and lessons for Museum programming
• Other duties may be assigned to meet museum needs