Education and Museum Programs Manager

The State Historical Society of North Dakota is seeking an innovative Education & Museums Program Manager to collaborate with a world-class team to design, implement, and manage innovative public programs, teacher workshops, history curriculum, and educational and exhibit initiatives that help empower people through history.

This onsite position, reporting to the Audience Engagement & Museum Department director, offers flexibility to lead transformative history education and public programs. The manager will create and lead education programs and staff with new models and approaches supporting our mission, expanding community engagement, and increasing the agency’s reach.

Summary of Work

The State Historical Society provides world-class visitor experiences and history education through an award-winning history curriculum, exhibits, and interpretative experiences at state museums and historic sites. We’re seeking an innovator who will ignite a passion for learning with fresh ideas—a manager driven to help today’s audiences make meaningful connections to their own stories and the past. This position has a major impact on visitor experiences by overseeing a team providing education initiatives for agency museums, state historic sites, exhibits, and formal and informal education products and services.

This manager will bring visionary leadership in education, interpretive planning, and an understanding of the latest education practices, team building, and program evaluation knowledge.

Core Knowledge & Competencies

• Lead day-to-day and long-range planning for education and visitor experiences across agency venues resulting in growth of participation, community collaboration, and impact.
• Manage the education team and two historic site managers in visioning and offering impactful formal and informal audience engagement opportunities at our museums and historic sites across the state.
• Track attendance and impact of education programs and events to assess effectiveness and influence changes.
• Show proficiency in budget management, project management, and public speaking.
• Manage interpretive plan development for all historic sites and state museums.
• Develop innovative partnerships with community organizations, tribal nations, and public agencies for representation of multiple perspectives.
• Infuse educational programs into agency exhibits, outreach staff, and all departments.
• Write content for history curriculum, exhibits, articles, blogs, etc. as needed.
• Manage education budget, grants, and earned income opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Education, Museum Education, Public History, Communications, or a closely related field, along with at least three years of progressively responsible supervisory or leadership experience in a relevant setting.
• Three years of demonstrated success in presenting public programs or educational initiatives for diverse audiences in a museum, educational, historic or similar setting. Preference for experience in developing programming for teachers and/or students.
• Experience with public speaking.
• Knowledge of project management tools, interpretive plan development, and measurable evaluation tools.
• Experience managing budgets and grants.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in museum trends, classroom education, adult learning programming, or corporate education training.
• Experience writing educational content for curriculum, magazines, or other related pieces.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to manage or present weekend and after-hours programming.

About Team ND

"Far and away the best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt

More than 7,500 talented, hard-working people across sixty-three agencies have come together as Team North Dakota. At Team ND, we are driven to succeed through gratitude, humility, curiosity and courage. Our purpose is to empower people, improve lives, and inspire success. Join us in being legendary.

Total Rewards:
The State of North Dakota is committed to providing team members with a strong and competitive rewards package that support you, your health and your family.

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