Museum Educator

STAR SERVICES LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution based in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Museum Educator to design and deliver interactive programs for diverse audiences. The role involves creating engaging workshops and tours that connect visitors to the museum's collection. Candidates should possess a relevant Bachelor's degree and have a minimum of 2 years of experience in educational design, along with strong communication skills and fluency in Arabic and English.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years designing and leading educational workshops.
• Experience developing engaging interpretive themes for various audiences.
• Demonstrated organization and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design high quality learning workshops and tours.
• Create welcoming environments for experiential informal learning.
• Maintain an archive of model program materials.

Skills

Designing educational workshops

Leading interpretive tours

Communication skills

Knowledge of museum interpretation

Fluency in Arabic

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor’s in tourism, art, history, or museum studies

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Experience

• 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.

Required Education / Qualifications

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