Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Lead the development and implementation of a drone program for camps, schools, and scouts.
Provide an entertaining, educational experience to youth participants from grades K-12.
Actively engage students with learning opportunities while here, adapting to diverse personalities and learning styles as needed.
Deliver presentations in the museum (Field Trips), in school classrooms (Outreach), and virtually (Livestreams).
Always supervise participants during the program, including mealtimes, transition times, and overnight (as needed).
Participate actively in all program training sessions.
Assist with program preparation, set-up, and clean-up of activities as needed.
Maintain a positive, supportive, and professional working relationship with all team members, participants, and parents.
Be knowledgeable about the facility and serve as a guide for the building, education area, and museum as needed.
Learn to operate all training simulator operations from preparation to conclusion.
Be an expert presenter in the Justice Planetarium and Dr. Goddard’s Lab
o Complete any pre-show preparation promptly.
o Provide educational instruction & productions in venues at a consistently high-performance level.
o Responsible for cleaning and resetting the presentation area after each show.
Create new presentations and activities for schools, scouts, or camps.
Provide leadership for part-time educators working in scouts and camps.
Work Requirements
Schedule: Monday – Friday, some evenings and weekends (40 hours per week)
Physical dexterity (some lifting of heavy materials and equipment necessary).
Mental effort: working on the computer during time spent on the job, reading, writing, analyzing, and visualizing.
Sensory requirement: ability to communicate and respond to participants and staff.
Able to work under stress.
Excellent attendance is required.
Requirements
Qualifications
Education: Preference will be given to candidates with a college degree or equivalent work experience in education, math, science, engineering, or technology.
Must be 18 years old.
Proven experience teaching/working with youth.
Good communication, organizational, leadership, and management skills.
Ability to work with diverse groups, including multicultural and ethnic organizations.
Positive attitude and friendly demeanor.
Ability to work independently.
Agree to complete youth protection training relating to the youth program being staffed before the event (generally available online or through local program support).
