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State of Tennessee · 7 hours ago

MUSEUM PROGRAM COORDINATOR - 01172026-74492

Davidson County, TN

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$44K/yr - $54K/yr

1+ years exp

The State of Tennessee is seeking a Museum Program Coordinator to manage educational programs and public outreach initiatives. The role involves coordinating field trips, tours, and events while ensuring quality customer service and developing historical content.

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Responsibilities

Assists with the development, coordination, and management of a specific educational programs, events, or exhibits including school field trips, outreach programs, and on-site tours and programs of the museum and capitol

Responsible for scheduling the daily functions of specific educational programs could include field trip reservations, capitol tours, outreach programs and events, and public programs

Assists with the recording and reporting visitation data for particular programs and services of the education department. This could include field trip visitation, traveling trunks, teacher workshops, capitol tours, and visitation. and evaluates the success of museum programs

Assists with developing and delivering evaluation strategies to measure visitor and customer satisfaction and reports that data to department leadership

Assists with supervising and scheduling of museum program assistant for tours, and front facing customer service position within the Education Department ensuring customer service and quality control

Assists with researching, writing, and developing historical content for educational curriculum, program planning, and exhibit development

Assists with developing and delivering thoroughly researched, historically accurate, and audience engaging tours, talks, and public lectures on behalf of the museum and state capitol

Responsible for maintaining a geographical and working knowledge of Tennessee history and culture through various means of professional development and is considered a subject matter expert

May perform supervisory duties including hiring, training, evaluations, developing direct reports, performance coaching, and other administrative functions in compliance with guidelines provided by the Tennessee Department of Human Resources

Qualification

Museum managementEducational program developmentHistorical researchPublic speakingCustomer serviceJudgmentWritten comprehensionMS Office SoftwareTime managementActive listeningDecision making

Required

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree

One year of experience in one or a combination of the following: managing a museum or historic site; providing tours or programs in a museum or historic site; classifying and researching artifacts in a museum collection; acquiring or storing museum artifacts; any professional work in elementary or secondary education; or related field

Complete a background clearance application which includes releasing all records involving any criminal history

A valid motor vehicle operator's license

For the past five years, the candidate's driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations