Education and Engagement Coordinator | Richmond, TX

Title: Education and Engagement Coordinator 

Facility: Fort Bend Museum 

Pay Scale: $40,000 – Salary non-exempt, Full-time including benefits; Must be able to work a flexible schedule occasionally including some evenings and weekends 

Supervisor: Associate Director, Fort Bend Museum 

Position Overview: 

The Education and Engagement Coordinator develops, implements, and oversees all educational programs and curriculum for the Fort Bend Museum, focusing on TEKS-aligned school tours, on-site experiences, and bringing museum programs out to the community. This role also involves recruiting, training, and retaining volunteers to deliver public education and collaborating with staff to achieve the Fort Bend History Association's Strategic Plan goals. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 

• Develops and implements TEKS aligned educational curricula and special programming, as well as educator and student resources. 

• This role supervises and trains museum docents, staff, student interns, and volunteers, ensuring the quality and accuracy of historic house tours and school programs. It also emphasizes training educational personnel in the preservation philosophy of FBHA. 

• Creates marketing for field trips, encourage and remind educators about educational opportunities at the museum.  

• Leads historic house tours and school programs when volunteers are not available. 

• Connects with, books, and creates day-of plans for groups interested in educational and historic experiences such as the Historic Richmond Walking Tour, Museum Complex Tour, Morton Cemetery Tour or any combination of these. 

• Develops and maintains self-guided gallery scavenger hunt and guides for everyday visitors. 

• This role cultivates and strengthens community education partnerships by building lasting relationships with local resources like schools, libraries, museums, and city/county entities. The goal is to promote history and preservation through collaborative programs. 

• Identifies and recommends possible grant opportunities to support programs 

• Maintains budgetary compliance for departmental operating budget; prepares and recommends annual budget requests 

• Serves as a trained collections staff member on behalf of the Museum collection 

• Prepares a report on Education and Engagement Coordinator activities at the beginning of each month and provides any other metrics related to educational programs as required for Site Director’s monthly report 
  
  

Other Duties: 

• Performs yearly inventory of programs collections objects in historic homes and school programming 

• Maintains effective storage and cleanliness of programs supplies and spaces 

• Attends FBHA staff in-services 

• Serves as staff for special FBHA and FBM events as needed, such as exhibit openings, on-site community events, Candlelight Tours, Bites & Brews and other fundraising or programmatic events. 

• Coordinates publicity and promotion of educational programming with FBHA staff, and contributes to education-based social media and marketing projects 

• Maintains timely and accurate program statistics and prepares reports as needed 

• Updates Museum master calendar with newly booked school programs and adult group tours, as well as co-coordinates separate school schedule for docents and volunteers 

• Improves and modifies existing programs and events 

• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor 
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Positive attitude, mature interpersonal style, and an out-going demeanor 

• Demonstrates initiative, problem-solving skills, time-management, creativity, flexibility, analytic skills and follow through 

• Superior capability in oral and written communications, good listening skills and strong presentation/public speaking capabilities 

• Enthusiasm for learning and teaching local history 

• Pedagogical knowledge in effective teaching strategies and learning environments for all students 

• Excellent organization skills; capable of managing competing priorities and pressures. Familiar with appropriate and current computer technology 

• Physical activity of this position includes climbing, standing for sustained periods of time indoors and outdoors, walking, and lifting objects up to 20+ lbs. 
  
  

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in education, museum studies, history or related field with relevant professional experience; teaching certification and classroom experience preferred 

• Minimum 2 years in education and/or museum field or related experience 

• Experience working with a team of professionals in a nonprofit museum or other educational institution 

• Experience developing and delivering educational experiences/programs for a variety of age groups 

• Experience developing lesson plans that include learning objectives and assessment procedures 

Please send a cover letter, resume and three references to Ana Alicia Acosta aacosta@fortbendmuseum.org .