Educator of Community Learning - Part Time
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Discovery Lab
Tulsa, OK, US
Summary
Facilitate engaging, hands-on STEAM activities for children and families in various lab settings and community locations. Collaborate with the education team to ensure a high-quality guest experience while assisting with front-line operations.
Job Description
The Educator of Community Learning will facilitate playful, engaging, and hands-on STEAM activities for children and families at Discovery Lab in our Science Lab, WorkShop, and Little Lab spaces as well as in a variety of settings around the Tulsa area. This position is responsible for ensuring guests have a world-class experience that sparks joyful curiosity. Primary responsibilities include:
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Energetic facilitation of STEAM activities in a variety of settings, including Science Lab, WorkShop, Little Lab, and community partners hosting STEAM Booths.
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Engaging guests of all ages including students and teachers on field trips, families playing to learn together, and community groups.
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Collaborating with the education team, problem solving, and effectively communicating.
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Assisting other staff as needed and having a positive attitude to support the front-line teams.
All positions at Discovery Lab are required to assist with front-line operations as needed and may be assigned other duties as applicable by their direct supervisor. This position description is representative of the major position requirements and is not intended to be all-inclusive.
What you’ll need:
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Effective customer service skills.
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Professional communication skills.
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Minimum of one year experience teaching, either in a school setting or an informal or out-of-school setting.
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Ability to present 21st-century process skills and ways to engage with diverse learners.
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Comprehensive understanding of STEAM and educational topics.
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The ability to implement organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
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Effective use of Microsoft Office Suite.
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Ability to focus and openly communicate.
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Ability to recognize and respond appropriately to safety and security issues.
Whom you’ll support:
All Discovery Lab staff are encouraged to enhance team spirit and support throughout the organization.
How you’ll work:
This position is nonexempt regular part-time position. The typical work schedule for this job varies depending on staffing needs. After-hours and weekends are required. Moderate to loud noise environment, general office environment, classroom environment.
Classification: Nonexempt
Salary Range: $16.34 - $22.06 per hour
Reports to: Education Manager
Physical Demands
20% sitting, 70% standing, 10% lifting/carrying/pushing/pulling not more than 10-30 lbs.
Mental Demands
Flexibility, resilience, reasoning, and decision-making.
Discovery Lab has been igniting the curiosity of children since 2007, initially as a museum without walls. In May 2013, Discovery Lab opened their first walls in the Owen Park Recreation Center--seeing over 130,000 children and families each year including nearly 30,000 through outreach. In early 2022, the museum opened a 57,000-square-foot world-class facility adjacent to Gathering Place park. The museum projects to impact over 300,000 children and families each year at the new site furthering its mission to inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
Discovery Lab is an educational resource for Tulsa providing outreach museum classes to area schools and organizations, and as a field trip destination as a partner with Tulsa Public Schools as its Center for STEAM Education. Exhibits and programming encourage the development of executive function and process skills, including critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Educational content focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM), and health and wellness, and complements and supplements current school curriculum. Studies show that hands-on, informal learning experiences, like those delivered by Discovery Lab, impact reading readiness and school success. Discovery Lab is a community hub that appeals to families regardless of income, education, or ethnicity, and impacts underserved children in many of Tulsa’s Title I schools. More than 25 percent of the students that visit on field trips and 40 percent of outreach programming are delivered at a free or reduced rate.
Discovery Lab is a member of the Oklahoma Museum Network, the Oklahoma Museum Association, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the Association of Children’s Museums, the American Alliance of Museums, and Arts Alliance Tulsa.
Founded
2007
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Tulsa, OK
Discovery Lab has been igniting the curiosity of children since 2007, initially as a museum without walls. In May 2013, Discovery Lab opened their first walls in the Owen Park Recreation Center--seeing over 130,000 children and families each year including nearly 30,000 through outreach. In early 2022, the museum opened a 57,000-square-foot world-class facility adjacent to Gathering Place park. The museum projects to impact over 300,000 children and families each year at the new site furthering its mission to inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
Discovery Lab is an educational resource for Tulsa providing outreach museum classes to area schools and organizations, and as a field trip destination as a partner with Tulsa Public Schools as its Center for STEAM Education. Exhibits and programming encourage the development of executive function and process skills, including critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Educational content focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM), and health and wellness, and complements and supplements current school curriculum. Studies show that hands-on, informal learning experiences, like those delivered by Discovery Lab, impact reading readiness and school success. Discovery Lab is a community hub that appeals to families regardless of income, education, or ethnicity, and impacts underserved children in many of Tulsa’s Title I schools. More than 25 percent of the students that visit on field trips and 40 percent of outreach programming are delivered at a free or reduced rate.
Discovery Lab is a member of the Oklahoma Museum Network, the Oklahoma Museum Association, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the Association of Children’s Museums, the American Alliance of Museums, and Arts Alliance Tulsa.
Founded
2007
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Tulsa, OK
