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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Head of Education (Program Administrator II)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Salary: $45,000 - $65,000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Employer: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, The University of Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Category: Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Location: Norman, Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Type: Full Time Experienced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH), University of Oklahoma (OU), is seeking a Head of Education. This is an excellent opportunity for a creative, experienced
and trained educator or museum educator. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Basic Purpose/Job Function<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Responsible for administration, leadership, and management of the Education Department including coordination, development, implementation and evaluation of museum’s educational
and interpretive programs and of the Discovery Room and Volunteer Program. This position also has significant budget management duties and must strategize program funding utilizing multiple funding streams. The ability to seek and obtain outside funding for
educational programs is a critical function of this position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Responsibilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Responsible for leading the education department, including developing departmental vision, goals, priorities, and strategic plans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Responsible for managing education department personnel, including supervising, inspiring, training, hiring/firing, and
providing professional development for staff and creating a positive, team-oriented, productive work environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Responsible for projecting, preparing, and administering budgets for all educational areas/programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Responsible for coordinating, developing, implementing and evaluating museum educational programs, events and activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Responsible for developing, maintaining and operating Discovery Room programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Responsible for oversight of the Volunteer Program in collaboration with the Volunteer Coordinator including developing and implementing volunteer training.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Participates on exhibit teams to review, develop, and/or evaluate traveling and in-house exhibits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Participates in developing, designing and writing grant proposals for educational programs in collaboration with museum
Development Officer, curators and/or other museum/university staff/faculty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Participates in service to the museum community and professional organizations at the local, state, regional, and national levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">• Maintains a high level of communication and interaction with the Director, the Head of Exhibits, the Head Curator, curators, and the Head of Operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Supervision of Others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Supervises a professional staff of museum educators, education assistants, and education scheduler and additional part-time, seasonal and special project staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Supervision Received<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Receives supervision from the Director.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with an emphasis in earth, life, or social sciences, education, museum studies, or related discipline with a minimum of 48
months (with supervisory experience) in a museum, zoo, science center, environmental education center, or similar institution. Leadership and management skills are paramount. The successful candidate also will have demonstrated forward-thinking museum educational
ideas, programs and practices; the ability to work in a team environment; management of multiple priorities; and strong communication, planning, budgeting and coordinating skills. The position is permanent with full benefits; salary depending on education,
experience, and skills. Qualified applicants must apply for requisition # 15341 online at
<a href="https://jobs.ou.edu">https://jobs.ou.edu</a>. Please attach a letter of interest addressing the above qualifications and responsibilities, a detailed résumé and a list of three professional references. EOE/AA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Employer Information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The SNOMNH mission is to inspire minds to understand the natural and cultural world through collection-based discovery, interpretation, and education. All of the museum’s programs
and exhibits are weighed against this mission statement and inspiration occurs through the discovery of new knowledge and the sharing of this knowledge through public programs and exhibits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">First established in 1899, the SNOMNH is a university governed state museum of natural history with a budget of $8 million and a professional staff of 100 in a state-of-the-art
facility of 195,000 square feet that opened in 2000. There are 10 million objects in collections of earth, social and life sciences. SNOMNH is a teaching, research, heritage preservation, and exhibition facility with 65,000 square feet of public programs and
exhibit space. Thirteen scientists serve as curators of the museum’s collections and educators at the University of Oklahoma, and a full-time exhibits and public programs staff dedicated to providing the finest of outreach programs to the people of Oklahoma.
Over 160,000 people visit the Museum each year. It is accredited by the AAM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">The museum educational efforts are at all levels, including graduate and undergraduate classes. Much scholarly work on Oklahoma’s natural and cultural history is based on the
museum’s collections and its world-class curators, with foundational books on archeology, birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, Native Americana, fossil history, and biodiversity. The holdings—including the largest collections of anthropology, classics,
vertebrate, invertebrate and botanical fossils, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians—provide objects and specimens to illustrate the state’s scientific and cultural history.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Informal education through permanent and traveling exhibits and classroom activities, lectures, and publications reached 75% of Oklahomans over 15 years and millions more across
the US. Topics range from Native American art and culture to understanding world cultures, to natural history, including fossils, to the history of life in Oklahoma. The education staff and curators use collections to develop programs for school groups and
teachers that cover the full range of the museum’s disciplines, such as Explorology®, which provide field experience to children K-12. The Explorology® program presents extensive summer programs offering field experiences to K-12, while also traveling to schools
across Oklahoma with natural history programs that immerse students in the natural world. Teacher workshops, classes, field trips, outreach to schools, and hands-on experience are keystones of the program. There is a large and vibrant program for school age
children and their teachers (25,000 participants/yr). Additional programs include classes taught to teachers by museum curators, public lectures by curators throughout Oklahoma and across the nation, and an educational film series. More than a 1,000 Native
Americans participate in programs annually, including preservation of disappearing languages through the annual Native American Language Fair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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