Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in PreK-12 Museum Education (11-month Term Appointment)

Join our education department as the Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship in PreK-12 Museum Education at The Johnson Museum of Art! This position is an eleven-month term appointment to the Museum's education department for the academic year 2025-26, with a start date mid-August, 2025. The Fellow reports to the Manager of School and Family Programs and the Director of Education and will join an education team of seven professional staff and approximately 30 student interns. The Fellow will work with all museum departments, including collections management, curatorial, editorial, development, administration, and visitor services, as well as with Cornell faculty and graduate students as needed.

The Opportunity

As a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in PreK-12 Museum Education, you will:

• Have an opportunity to immerse yourself in experimental new approaches to pre-K-12 teaching collaborations in Ithaca and across the Southern Tier; family and afterschool program engagement; and object-based curriculum development for elementary, middle, and high school students, both in-person and via digital and web-based resources.
• Respond sensitively to the curricular needs of educators in rural and urban school districts.
• Be a key partner as museum staff collaborate with select faculty and students to update and reimagine our pre-K-12 units dedicated to global arts and cultures in the Museum's collections.
• Design materials that build connections with the New York State Common Core Learning Standards and may incorporate elements of studio practice.
• Contribute to the Museum's PreK-12 education web portal to house virtual materials and engage younger audiences, teachers, and parents in new ways.
• Have opportunity to contribute to grant application narratives and acquire qualitative research skills; a single- or co-authored conference paper on an aspect of museum education is a desired output.

Core hours for this position are Monday through Friday, 9:00AM-5:00PM, with hours flexed for occasional weekend and evening events.

What We Need

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• A cover letter and resume outlining your interest and how your experience and goals align with the potential for mutual success in the role are required for consideration.
• Completed a Bachelor's degree with up to two years of experience.
• Open to all areas of study, but a deep interest in the humanities and global arts is vital.
• Experience with, or eagerness to acquire experience with, working with school-age children in formal or informal settings, e.g., as a camp counselor, teacher's aide, or museum educator, etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, as this position involves regular communication with several internal and external parties to the university.
• Superb organization skills, including the ability to follow protocols, multi-task, and prioritize responsibilities.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.

If you have all those things, great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have, but it's ok if you don't.

• Experience working in art studios.
• Facility with, or eagerness to acquire aptitude with, Word Press and Adobe Creative Suite, including video creation/editing programs and Photoshop.
• Valid Driver's License.

Rewards and Benefits

Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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