Community Outreach Navigator

Reports to: Manager of Learning & Programs Status: Non-Exempt, Part-time

Compensation: $18/hour Date: March 2025

Summary / Objective:

Moonshot Museum is Pennsylvania’s first space museum and the only museum on the planet with a core focus on career readiness for the 21st century space industry. Moonshot Museum offers visitors a literal window into the real-time work of spacecraft construction. Students embark on storied space missions in an immersive lunar landscape filled with high-tech team-building activities. Moonshot Museum’s Learning & Programs team leads space-themed STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) experiences for students of all ages in onsite, offsite, and virtual programs.

Moonshot Museum seeks a vibrant, energetic, collaborative PART TIME MOONSHOT MUSEUM COMMUNITY OUTREACH NAVIGATOR to join our team as a “face of space” presenting educational programs onsite at Moonshot Museum, off-site at schools and community venues, and virtually.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Ability to lead public presentations, digital team-building activities, theatric science assemblies, and planetarium programs through strong public speaking and storytelling skills.
• Ability to guide visitors and students through learner-centered activities and workshops that include career conversations, creating art, exploring science and robotics, discussing and debating space policy, engaging with touchscreens and virtual reality exhibits.
• Ability to serve visitors through empathy, problem-solving, and a commitment to excellent customer care.
• Exudes passion for education around space exploration and science, and the important role that the arts play in these fields.
• Collaborative, receptive to feedback, with an attitude of constant self-improvement and teamwork.
• Ability to think on your feet in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working with computers and audio-visual equipment and troubleshooting/pivoting around technological challenges as they arise.
• Flexible to ongoing change and iteration at a young and growing museum.
• Public speaking experience preferred, in roles such as science presenter, tour guide, teacher, museum educator, or theatre.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or equivalent experience.

Community Engagement & Outreach

• Ability to build relationships with schools, community groups, and partner organizations to promote Moonshot Museum’s programs.
• Assist in the development and execution of outreach strategies to engage diverse and underrepresented communities.
• Represent Moonshot Museum at community events, career fairs, and industry gatherings to raise awareness of our mission and programs.
• Help coordinate offsite visits, tabling events, and Mobile Moonshot programs to extend the museum’s reach beyond its physical location.

Administrative & Logistics Support

• Maintain accurate records of outreach activities, participant engagement, and community partnerships.
• Assist with scheduling and coordinating outreach events, ensuring smooth communication with partners.
• Help manage materials and resources needed for programming, including educational kits and technology.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: The Navigator’s primary responsibility is to present the catalog of space education programs that has been developed by Moonshot Museum. Navigators will be trained to deliver these programs by the Manager of Learning & Programs.

• Navigate learners of all ages through dynamic STEAM Education programs on the future of space exploration, leading presentations large and small in format, for diverse audiences and all ages, presented onsite, virtually, or at offsite locations such as schools and community centers. The Navigator will lead team-building exercises; present high-octane, theatric science stage assemblies; facilitate insightful space policy dialogues and debates;
  
  provide personalized, memorable learning engagement at walk-up activities; and guide student-centered classroom activities ranging from science and technology to social studies, literature, and art.
• Navigate middle and high school students in space industry career exploration. The Navigator will lead immersive, storied space missions in the museum gallery, acting as…