Coordinator of Education and Engagement – Pentacrest Museums, University of Iowa

The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums is hiring a dedicated Coordinator of Education and Engagement (100% appointment).

Reporting to the Director of Museums, the Coordinator of Education and Engagement (CEE), plays a leadership role in advancing the mission of the Museums by integrating the collection into the university’s curriculum. The CEE will serve as the primary liaison with university faculty regarding collaborative endeavors, developing pedagogy, and leading programmatic strategy for supporting student and faculty engagement with the collections. Working closely with the Director of Research Collections, the CEE will be responsible for coordinating collections engagement projects and creating intellectually rich and accessible interpretive approaches built around the Museums’ collections.

The CEE is charged with developing strategies, interpretations, and opportunities for learning engagement across multiple platforms, increasing faculty-student participation, and ensuring the delivery of relevant, intellectually engaging, and exciting mission-driven experiences, on-campus and online. The CEE plays a critical role in making the Museums a platform for creativity, critical thinking, curricular learning, and cultural engagement for The University of Iowa. They will also:

-Support the mission of the University and coordinates pathways for the academic community to connect with the museums’ collection in support of teaching and research.

-In collaboration with the Director, establish long‐range vision, annual goals, objectives, and priorities for academic engagement.

-Work closely with the curators: Collaborate with faculty, students, artists, and guest scholars to develop lesson plans, training sessions, and new interpretive approaches in impactful ways; Provide input during the development of exhibitions by playing an active role in planning and developing educational and interpretive components as they relate to exhibitions; Co-produce interpretive plans for museum.

-Recruit and supervise student employees, museum attendants, and interns, and lead the development and implementation of creative educational and auxiliary programming for broad and diverse audiences presented in various formats.

-Assist with developing gallery didactics in print and digital forms.

-Identify funding opportunities, draft grant proposals, develop and oversees the portions of the annual budget in collaboration with the Director, and track expenditures to ensure adherence to set goals.

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About the Department: The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums (UIPM) are the Museum of Natural History and the Old Capitol Museum. The UIPM serves to strengthen the vital role of both museums in the educational, research, and engagement missions of the University enhancing, the campus-wide focus on cultural and environmental diversity.