Museum Experience Specialists, Zayed National Museum Abu Dhabi

BLR WORLD; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 100,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

BLR WORLD in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Museum Educator to design and deliver interactive interpretive programmes across the museum for diverse audiences.

You will collaborate with the Interpretive Experience team to create engaging workshops and tours, document audience outcomes, and stay current with interpretation trends locally and internationally.

Fluency in Arabic and English is required; minimum 2 years designing and leading educational sessions in a museum or cultural setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years designing and leading educational workshops in a museum, cultural or educational setting.
• Experience developing interpretive themes, visitor journeys, exhibits, storyboards and content with clear learning outcomes.
• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver interactive interpretive workshops and tours for diverse museum audiences.
• Collect qualitative and quantitative data on audience participation.
• Stay current with interpretation trends to keep tours and workshops relevant.
• Coordinate with schedules across programmes and projects.

Skills

Workshop design

Public speaking

Data collection

Bilingual communication

Job description

Job description

The Museum Educator’s responsibility is to design and deliver interactive, engaging and informative interpretive programmes across the museum for a wide variety of increasingly diverse audiences.

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 connects all type of audiences to the museum’s story and collection.
• Support the Interpretive Experience team in providing qualitative and quantitative data of audience participating in workshops and tours.
• Keep up-to-date with interpretation trends both locally and internationally to ensure that tours and workshops are relevant to diverse audiences.
• Stay up-to-date with schedules of all programmes and workshops across all relevant projects.

Requirements:

• 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 action-based outcomes for a variety of audiences in a museum, heritage / cultural centre or educational institution.
• Demonstrated organization and communication skills.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.

Skills

Preferred Experience

• Additional languages.
• Knowledge of the UAE Culture and Heritage