Youth Audiences Manager.  Hillwood Museum & Gardens, an art collector’s estate museum located in Washington, DC, seeks an experienced, imaginative, and motivated museum education professional. This manager will work with current and potential youth-aged visitors and their parents/teachers/leaders, staff throughout the museum, leaders in the community, and colleagues at other institutions to enhance current programs and create new and creative learning opportunities that support the institution’s interpretive messages and methodologies. These programs will attract and retain youth audiences (including families, schools/camps, and after-school groups including scouts) as mandated by the museum’s strategic plan. Requires an advanced degree in museum education or a related field; eight or more years of leadership experience conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating learning experiences for youth audiences, preferably in a museum setting.  Additional requirements include a dynamic teaching presence and significant experience in curriculum development; strong management, communication, organizational, and planning skills; the ability to establish and sustain mutually beneficial relationships with program partners; the ability to see and present work in the context of the theories and practice of museum learning; and the ability to work effectively as a team member and leader. For additional information: www.hillwoodmuseum.org/opportunities.htm.  To apply, submit letter of interest and resume to: e-mail: [log in to unmask]; fax:202.966.1623; mail: Human Resources, Hillwood Museum & Gardens, 4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20008.  AA/EOE. Deadline for Application: September 30, 2005.

 

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