Museum Educator

About the job Museum Educator

The Museum Educator’s responsibility is to design and deliver interactive, engaging and informative interpretive programs across the museum for a wide variety of increasingly diverse audiences.

• Work closely with the Interpretive Experience team to design high quality and engaging learning workshops and interpretive tours that connect all types of audiences to the museum’s story and collection.
• Ensure that story‑led, visitor‑focused, object‑rich learning experiences are delivered to an agreed program at the highest quality of international standards in interpretation.
• Create a welcoming environment for visitors, conducive to experiential informal learning, through quality interpretive tours, special projects, workshops and materials.
• Support the Interpretive Experience team in providing qualitative and quantitative data of audience participation in workshops and tours.
• Keep up‑to‑date with interpretation trends locally and internationally to ensure tours and workshops remain relevant to diverse audiences.
• Stay up‑to‑date with schedules of all programs and workshops across all relevant projects.
• Update and maintain an archive of model program and workshop materials.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience designing and leading educational workshops in a museum, cultural or educational setting.
• Experience developing engaging interpretive themes, visitor journeys, exhibits, storyboards and content with clear learning outcomes, including emotional and action‑based outcomes for a variety of audiences in a museum, heritage or cultural centre.
• Demonstrated organization and communication skills.
• Competent knowledge of a subject matter relevant to the museum’s narrative and collection.
• Demonstrated ability to lead arts and cultural interpretive tours and workshops.
• Ability to tailor often complex messages to a wide range of audiences.
• Knowledge of current practice in museum interpretation, visitor experience and audience engagement.
• Dedication to ensuring that interpretive experiences are inclusive and accessible.
• Knowledge of evaluation methods, ability to design and implement interpretive programs and guided tours.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.

Bachelor’s in a relevant subject, e.g. tourism, art, history, museum studies.