Learning Specialist Jobs

The Museum of Modern Art is currently accepting applications for two full time Learning Specialists to work as part of a cohort that provides a wide range of facilitated experiences both inside and outside of the Museum, including connecting classes to exhibitions and collections, facilitated artmaking workshops, community meetings, interpretive discussions, and online teaching. Provide inclusive inquiry-based teaching with a focus on the power of art and artist to effect individual and social transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts program and event evaluation with groups and participants through surveying and other methods.
• Plans for and facilitates teen meetings, including off site excursions, meetings, discussions and more.
• Welcomes and greets visitors to the Museum and provides information and assistance where required.
• Corresponds with internal and external stakeholders to confirm and prepare requirements for tailored program sessions.
• Reports on programs, including numbers, participant feedback, observational notes on curriculum and program structures.
• Performs any other duties reasonably related to the functions described above.
• Attends exhibition walkthroughs, meetings, and other training sessions as required.
• Prepares resources and materials to deliver program activities as well as pack up, clean, organize and store resources and materials.
• Delivers facilitated explorations of art in the galleries, offsite, or via video conference, maintaining a high quality of customer service and professionalism in all environments.
• Contributes to research and writing of resources and interpretive materials.
• Supervises guests and participants in their care, protecting both guests and artworks.
• Visits classes of students in NYC schools across the five boroughs to deliver MoMA learning programs
• Facilitates hands-on studio sessions, workshops, and other activities.
• Works directly with MoMA staff to deliver pre-planned learning programs for a range of audiences.
  • Delivers facilitated explorations of art in the galleries, offsite, or via video conference, maintaining a high quality of customer service and professionalism in all environments.
  • Facilitates hands-on studio sessions, workshops, and other activities.
  • Plans for and facilitates teen meetings, including off site excursions, meetings, discussions and more.
  • Visits classes of students in NYC schools across the five boroughs to deliver MoMA learning programs

Requirements:

• Experience with programming for specific groups such as students, college or school aged, older adults, culturally-specific groups, visitors with disabilities or specific needs, neurodiverse audiences, etc. also preferred.
• Proactive and independent attitude, ability to problem solve and adapt to a range of situations in the moment.
• Ability to support guest insights into art history, artists material and conceptual processes, and artists research and art communities through facilitated discussion is essential.
• Undergraduate degree in art history, education, related field or equivalent; strong knowledge of modern and contemporary art.
• Familiarity with developing curriculum and instructional materials utilizing the concepts outlined in the position summary above.
• Ability and willingness to work both as individuals and as a team within the Education department to prepare resources and materials to deliver program activities.
• Familiar with a range of strategies and techniques to engage and facilitate observational, thematic, and project-based learning including: knowledge and understanding of stages of human development, ability to implement various learning theories, and teaching strategies, including VTS (Visual Teaching Strategies), inquiry-based and dialogic teaching, and culturally responsive pedagogy.
• Excellent verbal communication skills and poise, including experience in mediating and facilitating conversations with individuals from different cultural backgrounds, age ranges, abilities, and attitudes.
• Flexibility to work a range of days and hours, including evenings and weekends.
• Adaptable with an ability to think on one’s feet and improvise as a form of problem solving.
• Proficiency in languages other than English, in particular, Spanish or Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), highly preferred.

Salary: The salary for this position is $60,299 per annum.

Application instructions: To apply, please visit MoMA Jobs. Applicants should submit a resume and a statement of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement: Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at the Museum, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, unemployment status, familial status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, caregiver status, arrest or conviction record to the extent required by applicable law, credit history, or any other protected category as established by applicable law, including the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”).

This is a unionized position at MoMA with covered employees represented by Local 2110, UAW, AFL-CIO.