Museum Educators - Zayed National Museum BLR WORLD

BLR WORLD; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cultural consultancy in Abu Dhabi is seeking Museum Educators to design and deliver engaging educational programs for diverse audiences at the Zayed National Museum. Candidates should have at least 2 years of experience in educational workshop design, strong communication skills, and fluency in both Arabic and English. This full-time role involves working 5 days a week and requires a commitment to creating inclusive and accessible interpretive experiences.

Benefits

Opportunity to contribute to cultural education

Engagement with diverse audiences

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in educational workshop design.
• Experience in developing interpretive themes and visitor journeys.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cultural interpretive tours.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver interactive educational programs.
• Create engaging learning workshops and tours.
• Update and maintain workshop materials.

Skills

Educational workshop design

Communication skills

Visitor engagement

Fluency in Arabic

Fluency in English

Education

Bachelor's in a relevant subject

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Museum Educators Zayed National Museum

About BLR

BLR WORLD is an awardwinning talent consultancy for the culture entertainment and events sectors enabling organisations to plan staff and operate unique permanent and temporary visitor experiences with the very best people.

Our core services are HR Consultancy Recruitment Training and Operations. We find brilliant people create high performing teams design environments and training to help them thrive then manage them seamlessly on the ground. The result Oneofakind experiences delivered by energised and enthusiastic teams exceeding the highest standards.

About the role

BLR WORLD is hiring Museum Educators to be responsible for designing and delivering interactive engaging and informative interpretive programmes for Zayed National Museum for a wide variety of increasingly diverse audiences. The Museum Educators will be based in Abu Dhabi UAE.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Interpretive Experience team in the delivery of interpretive content by designing high quality and engaging learning workshops and interpretive tours that connect all types of audiences to the museums story and collection.

• Ensure that storyled visitorfocused objectrich learning experiences are delivered to an agreed programme 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 the audience participating in workshops and tours.

• Keep uptodate with interpretation trends both locally and internationally to ensure that tours and workshops are relevant to diverse audiences.

• Stay uptodate with schedules of all programmes and workshops across all relevant projects.

• Update and maintain an archive of model programmes and workshop materials.

Required Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of experience on designing and leading educational workshops in a museum cultural or educational setting.

• Experience in developing engaging interpretive themes visitor journeys exhibits storyboards and content with clear learning outcomes including emotional and actionbased outcomes for a variety of audiences in a museum heritage / cultural centre or educational institution.

• Demonstrated organization and communication skills.

• Competent knowledge of a subject matter relevant to the narrative and collection of the museum.

• 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.

Preferred Experience

• Additional languages.

• Knowledge of the UAE Culture and Heritage

Required Education /Qualifications

• Bachelors in a relevant subject e.g. tourism art history museum studies.

Location and Commitment:

• Fulltime role

• Working 5 days a week for 8 hours daily including a 1hour lunch break (Weekly off is 2 days but not consecutive).

• Location: Onsite at the museum in Abu Dhabi

Why Join BLR WORLD

BLR WORLD delivers tailored staffing solutions for prestigious cultural institutions. Join us to contribute to the success of the Zayed National Museum and enhance visitor engagement through worldclass museum education services.