Director Educational Programs

Northwestern University is a private research university located on lakefront campuses in both Evanston and downtown Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern was founded in 1851 as the first college to serve the Northwest Territory. In fall 2008, Northwestern opened another campus in Doha, Qatar offering bachelor’s degrees in journalism and communications in partnership with the Qatar Foundation.    

The university employs approximately 7,100 full-time faculty and staff members among its 11 schools and colleges. NU offers over 130 undergraduate programs and 70 graduate and professional programs to the almost 16,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students enrolled full time.

Northwestern University is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research, and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community.

Northwestern University seeks to employ a varied and diverse range of dynamic people who understand the importance of our mission and vision. When you consider a career at Northwestern University, you know that you are joining an institution with a deep history of academic, professional and personal excellence.

Currently, we have a career opportunity as a Director of Educational Programs. The Director of Educational Programs for the Block Museum designs and implements educational programs that articulate and enhance the museum's exhibitions and permanent collection.  The incumbent designs public programs aimed at presenting and interpreting Block Museum exhibitions and collections to multiple audiences, works with Northwestern University faculty to organize symposia and other academic programs and works with Evanston and Chicago community organizations to design coordinated public programming. The incumbent also promotes the Block Museum to area schools, creates teachers' packets and other educational materials and leads and coordinates docent training.

Primary responsibilities for this position include designing and implementing educational programs that articulate and enhance Block Museum exhibitions and permanent collection; designing public programs aimed at presenting and interpreting Block Museum exhibitions and collections to multiple audiences; working with Northwestern University faculty to organize symposia and other academic programs; working with Evanston and Chicago community organizations to design coordinated public programming; promoting the Block Museum to area schools; creating educational materials, leading and coordinating docent training.

This critical role:

Provides vision and oversight for all museum educational initiatives;
Manages, implements, and coordinates all aspects of public programming for adult, family, school, and academic audiences;
Manages and oversees tour program including scheduling, recruiting groups, and building relationship with teachers and community organizations;
Oversees, recruits, trains, and schedules student docent program;
Initiates and maintains faculty and departmental relationships for programmatic collaboration;
Manages any part time, temporary employees;
Develops and manages departmental budget;
Recruits, trains and manages volunteer docent program;
Works with development office and grant manager to identify and seek program funding;
Coordinates and leads internal Program Committee;
Works with Programming Committee to devise programs to complement exhibitions and film series;
Manages and expands scope of undergraduate student;
Initiates and oversees community relationship for program development;
Performs related duties as required or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

A master's degree in art history, museum education, or art education, and 3 years experience or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired; 
Experience in effectively managing volunteer docents;
Ability to collaborate with staff, faculty, and students to devise, manage and execute programs;
Ability to multitask and work flexible hours to meet program needs;
Ability to manage part time, temporary educators, volunteers, student employees.

Beyond being a place to learn and grow professionally, Northwestern is an exciting and fulfilling place to work! Northwestern offers many benefit options to full and part-time employees including: competitive compensation; excellent retirement plans; comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage; dependent care match; vacation, sick and holiday pay; professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement.

Northwestern greatly values work/life balance amongst its employees. Take advantage of recreational, cultural, and enrichment opportunities on campus. Employees also receive access to childcare solutions, retail discounts, and other work/life balance resources.

Northwestern University is an equal opportunity employer and strongly believes in creating an environment that welcomes students, faculty and staff of all races, nationalities and religions. In doing so, we offer our students the opportunity to learn and grow in diverse communities preparing them for successful careers in an increasingly global and diverse work force.

For consideration, please click on the link below. You will be directed to Northwestern University's electronic recruiting system, eRecruit, where you will search and apply for current openings. To apply for this position in eRecruit, enter the Job Opening ID number in the appropriate search field. Once you apply, you will receive an email confirming submission of your resume. For all resumes received, if there is interest in your candidacy, the human resources recruiter or the department hiring manager will contact you. Job Opening ID number for this position is 16405. 

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Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.