Director of K-12 Education

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Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.

About the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites (ISMHS):
The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites (ISMHS) is a statewide museum system with 12 locations, including a central museum based in Indianapolis. Our mission is to ignite wonder, inspire curiosity, reveal stories and create connections. Our values are Integrity, Stewardship, Interconnectivity, and Transparency.

The Director of K–12 Education provides strategic leadership for all K–12 school youth and related outreach initiatives. You will oversee the creation, execution, promotion, and evaluation of programs designed for K–12 audiences, including school workshops, outreach programs, assemblies, out‑of‑school experiences, scout activities, and seasonal or year‑round camps. You will also support curriculum development and the implementation of school‑age camp programming throughout the year.

A key responsibility of this role is cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with families, educators, and community partners to enhance engagement and expand the museum’s educational impact.

The salary for this position traditionally starts at $61,800 but may be commensurate with education or work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.

• Develop, manage and administer educational programs and resources for K-12 school audiences including school workshops, school outreach programs, assemblies and special events as well as on-line educational resources.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with school administration, K-12 educators, school parent groups, homeschool families, scout partners and camp families.
• Oversee curriculum writing, staff scheduling and facilitation of school, youth and camp programs.
• Oversee the review, evaluation and improvement of school, out-of-school and youth programs.
• Coordinate the logistics of school program requests with the assistance of the school reservation intermittent by responding to program inquiries, answering questions, scheduling programs and resources, and assigning staff to programs.
• Provide program and resource development focused on K-12 education for changing exhibitions and core galleries;
  Work alongside Director of Interpretation and Director of Visitor Services to improve logistics and experiences for fieldtrip groups.
• Understand K-12 curriculum development and academic standards to align to school programs and exhibits as well as meet the expectations of the institutional strategic priorities.
• Recruit, coordinate and facilitate the educator roundtable.
• Supervise and assist the School & Youth Program Manager, OST Program Manager and Camp Program Manager with curriculum development, operations and implementation of school-age camps.
• Work with the Vice President of Education and Engagement and other departmental staff as part of the Engagement leadership team to develop and implement strategic goals, objectives and action plans for K-12 education programming.
• Work with the Vice President of Education and Engagement to create an annual comprehensive K-12 education program schedule.
• Develop evaluation tools and strategies for K-12 education programs, sharing the data with the Engagement team and lead strategic decision making to improve school services.
• Work with marketing and communications staff to develop and implement a marketing and sales plan in support of K-12 programs and resources; provide feedback on Educator pages on the ISMHS website; provide content for monthly educator e-newsletters.
• Work with the development staff to provide narratives and budgets for grants and grant reporting.
• Manage and track the K-12 Education budget as well as assist with other team budgets.
• Foster strong…